Spring has Sprung

Spring is here and so far Steve and I are staying very busy with yard work and a visit from the Boydens.
As some of you know Steve's brother Justin is in the Air Force and graduated from job training on March 29th. He is being stationed in Alamogordo, NM at Holloman Air Force Base. They arrived in Springfield on March 31st and stayed until April the 10th. Before Justin joined they had lived less than a mile from us and we had multiple visits a week, we were very excited to see them this time but also a little sad. Holloman is over 15 hours from Springfield, so it will be awhile before we see them again.
The kids have gotten so big since we saw them at Christmas, Braxton talks so well now and Novalee has grown a foot! Isabella is a spitting image for Justin. On Thursday April 1st Steve took the day off of work so that he and Justin could spend some time together. I had all of my daycare kids that day so we had an easter party, complete with craft projects, dying easter eggs, and egg shaped rice krispe treats.


Unfortunatly our visit couldnt last forever and Justin and Amy loaded up the truck and left on April the 10th. They did get to Holloman safely Sunday evening. They found out Monday they would be getting a house on base and were able to move in Tuesday.

Steve and I have alot of plans for working on our house this spring and summer. We worked in the yard Sunday afternoon and Monday evening cutting out bushes and cleaning the fence line. Steve suprised me with a trip to Lowes where we purchased a fire pit, I was very excited at the idea of nightly backyard fires. Tuesday evening Steve out the fire pit togther and had a fire ready when I got back home. Sadly we ran out of wood and were left in the dark! Steve decided he would go in and put our new bunk beds together before Justin and Patrick came to stay this weekend. I am still warming up to the idea of the bunkbeds but I know they will come in very handy as the daycare kids get bigger and out grow pack n plays. I am hoping to pick out a paint color this weekend and start that project next! We will see though, Steve and my dad are getting ready to frame and pour a patio in our backyard, we are also hoping to put a pool up this year and I am wanting to try my hand at garneding for the first time on my own. We will see how much of this we get accomplished but we have a good jump start so we might be in good shape.



This is the new building we put up this fall, our plans for the weekend are building a ramp on the front and a flower bed around both sides. Our yard has never had so many flowers as it will this summer!