Happy Fathers Day Mark!

Our Beautiful Garden

Ok well maybe not that beautiful yet but I love our garden. Since we have moved back we have planted a Pear, Apricot, Fuji and Granny Smith apple trees, Naval Orange, Peach and Citrus Cocktail trees. We are so excited to see them grow!!







For vegetables we planted zuccini, tomatoes, Bell Pepper, Green Beans, Corn, Brocculi, Lettuce, carrots, grapes and Strawberries. We are very lucky that the previous owners of our house 6 years ago took care of the dirt in the back or must of had a good garden because that area is not Hard Pan so are garden might actually survive. It was pretty easy digging the trenches for the sprinklers. Since we started the garden we have used it to teach the kids why we are starting a garden and how to plant and take care of it. They love it just as much as we do!!

Keeping busy

I thought I would try to keep up the posting. We have had a few exciting things going on lately. Kaelyns friend Chaye that she has had for while came over to play on Friday. They had so much fun dressing up and being girls it was fun to watch. Kaelyn and Chaye are both looking forward to their first sleepover in a couple weeks!






Today we started swim lessons with some friends from the ward. It was a lot of fun to watch the kids cry really hard at first and then love it. Kaelyn did not want to get her face wet at all but after she did she loved it. Enzo and I started a mommy and me class and it was so hilarious. Enzo loves the water and will be probably be swimming before Kaelyn. He was jumping in, swimming almost by himself and loved going underneath the water. He tried several times to copy the older kids who were playing around and doing headstands under the water. He would point and then try, only to almost do a somersault. He kept saying "again, again." He should sleep really good tonight! Hopefully I can get some video tomorrow!

Warning:DO NOT READ IF YOU LOVE CATS!!!

So this is my first post in awhile especially with a picture but I felt like this deserved a post. (Even though it takes forever to load) First I would just like to say a lot of people know that I have a very strong dislike for cats. Maybe its because when I was young my family had a cat that would chase us through the house and claw at your legs while you walked down the hall. I would always have a blanket around my waist covering my legs if I didnt have pants on. Im also very allergic to cats which doesnt help.
Since we have moved back to Madera to our house we found that a few cats had made it their home in our backyard. This did not make me very happy at all. We have a lot of dirt everywhere at the moment and I have a son that loves to play in it so it has made my blood pressure raise a bit. So we caught them and took them where they needed to go.
Except for Batman. He was not as easy because hes very wild and not nice at all. Well after some tricking and rope with the cage door we caught him. Thank goodness. So we dropped him off far away.. sorry.. I know its mean... but he made his way all the way back to my house. Yeah I wasnt very happy about it but I thought because we had gotten rid of all the others I would keep him. I thought he earned his keep since he made the long journey all the way back to my house. I thought he would help keep the rodents down since I hate those also.
Well I started noticing all the things he was doing that I didnt like and I couldnt do it anymore. This cat ownes my backyard. My kids are scared of him, I think dogs in the neighborhood are scared of him and bascially I couldnt handle the smell that I could smell where he was doing his business. So this morning while I was really upset because he had knocked over all of my trash cans (it was trash day so they were all full), I went to the store to get some enticing cat food and tricked him, and thus the picture! I couldnt wait for Mark to get home so im so glad that I have a brother n law here to help me when I need him cause in a few mins he is taking BATMAN away forever... well I hope. Hes taking him somewhere even further! Hopefully he wont make his way back again. I had to post this I think it is helping my stress level go down by typing my frustrations. Sorry to those that love the hairy felines. Sorry for the long post too!!