For the Beauty of the Earth...

When my parents were here we did some yard work. My dad and I laid down mulch, planted some flowers in our yard and in some pots. Now i don't have to deal with the annoying weeds that grow back in a day after i pick them! This was my first time ever to do my own yard work with my own house. I had tons of fun doing it. I feel so proud of my yard now! :) Thanks dad!

Shane and I and the boys took off Thursday at about 3:00 p.m. and went to Punderson State Park. First i have to mention that the drive was just beautiful. Ohio is beautiful!! The houses and landscape that we saw on our way was just gorgeous and very desirable! Maybe one day. :) We camped there that night and had so much fun. We were just about the only people there, except for some people in a huge motor home. We made tin foil dinners, had S'mores, and just hung out by the fire for awhile. The boys had fun searching for wood for our campfire. At about 9:00 p.m. we went into the tent and watched Narnia. Gavin LOVED that we were all sleeping in the tent together and to top it off, watching a movie together! He loved it. I loved watching his excitement. Tanner got upset when we put him in his pack'n play. He kept yelling "banky"(blanket) even though he had it with him. It started raining at about 1:00 a.m. and didn't let up until about 6:00 a.m. When we opened the tent up to get out there were puddles of water and mud...it was all mush. It was still sprinkling. Anyway, no way we were going to hang around in that. Gavin and Tanner would have been face down in the mud within 2 minutes after letting them out of the tent. So, we hurried and packed up, came home, and cooked our cowboy breakfast that i was going to cook there, here. We had lots of fun.

Gavin enjoyed burning the end of his stick and watching it smoke.

Our camp site. The bathroom was just a few feet away from us, which was nice!
We are in the process of scraping our garage, which is why it looks so bad right now. As soon as the sun decides to hang around for longer than a day then we will paint the garage! :)
The mulch my dad and I laid down. It looks so much nicer.

Some flowers that are blooming in our backyard.

All the leaves finally came in and now we have privacy once again in our backyard. :)

Another plant i put in my backyard.

Punderson State Park
I made two of these and hung them up on the outside of the garage.
Some flowers i planted.

I have to add something on here about the Cavaliers!! GO CAVS!!! Cleveland Fans are the best fans in the world. And by far, the LOUDEST fans out of the NBA! Talk about LOUD and PROUD!! I am so excited about the Cav's and hope they win the seventh game against the Celtics! Go Cav's, we believe in you! We are all WITNESSES!!! :)