Lake

We spent last weekend at Ute Lake. It was fun, but very hot. As usual I didn't get any pictures. Rusty doesn't like to swim, he'll get in the water up to when it starts his chest and that's enough "swimming" for him. This was Bailey's first trip to the lake and she did pretty good. We were surprised that she likes to swim and was pretty good at it. Between the heat and swimming Bailey over did and got limber tail. Her tail just hung limp, like it was broken. She has most of her wag back now, and it should be completely better soon.

Rachel's Baby Shower

This weekend I helped host a baby shower for Rachel. Here is a picture of the table, we had cookies, cake, quiches, pork sliders, fruit and veggies.

The hostesses

Rachel with a quilted pillow for Kennedy

Me and Rachel

New wall

In typical fashion, I didn't take any "before" pictures. This is picture of the wall that Brice and I built. Previously it was only finished on the inside of the shop and had the studs exposed on the wall that faced the patio, making it seem like an after thought. I still need to paint, but it looks much better than the exposed studs.

Outdoor Soccer

The outdoor spring season finished up last weekend. We only had one loss and two ties all season and ended up tied for second place. I noticed that the kept track of leading goal scorers for the league, so I checked out where I fell in the standings. I was tied for 7th out of the entire league....even with all the wide open goals that I missed :-) Brice was kind enough to ask out of how many people....there were 10 teams in the league.....so a lot of people.....not just 7 :-)

My indoor soccer team is still undefeated, we finished our last regular season game on Wednesday night and start the playoffs this coming week.

We have grass

Yep, that's right we have grass! I bought one piece of sod :-) The cashier made a comment about how weird it was to buy a single piece of sod. But the other day, Bailey had an upset stomach was looking for grass to eat in the yard. For some reason dogs always want to eat grass when they have upset stomachs. So we put a single piece of sod just off the porch, so we have just a little for the pups to munch on while we finish trying to figure out how we want to finish up the yard. There is currently an ongoing debate about if we want to hire someone to help and at what point do we want to be when/if we do hire someone to help. Here are a couple pictures of my new planter by the front door. I saw it at Tuesday Morning, last weekend, but I didn't get it. I was glad that they still had one left when I went back today.

Checking out the grass

My two tier planter

Bottom Tier

Top Tier

Yard Progress....front flowerbed

I found a couple of these hanging baskets for a good price, so I bought two of them. I planted two different colors of petunias, the pink/white and some solid pink that are hard to see in the photo

Here is a picture of the front flowerbed after planting everything. It was previously only rocks, so once everything starts to grow is will be nice to have some color. Everything I planted are perineals and low water once they are established so it should be fairly easy to maintain. I planted everything on April 30th in really nice weather then today we had a little rain/snow mix that wasn't in the forcast. I'll take an moisture we can get because it has been so dry here.

This is one of my baby box woods. I got a moderately slow growing variety

This is my fragrant sun wallflower. I liked to color of the leaves. It also has a long blooming season should be covered with the little yellow flowers from June to September. It is also supposed to smell amazing, according to what I've read, hence the name.

Iceplant. Mom and Dad picked up a xeriscape book that was from Albuquerque at their gardening classes and this plant was in it. I actually bought it in Amarillo on the way out of town when I was there for Easter. It is supposed to spread and form a nice mat and will flower all summer. It also is supposed to grow well over rocks.

Dianthis, I have pots flanking each side of the garage.

Fattie

Bacon Weave

Sausage

After smokin

Stuffed with peppers, chedder, and montery jack cheese