Spring Fever

I'm hoping to have a vegetable garden and this year it's hopefully gonna happen since I bought a mini greenhouse with those peat pellets that expand almost instantly when you give them water. Monday the 13th Joshua & I planted our seeds (while Miriam played with the drawer of bibs) and now only a week later some of them are already just about to the top of the cover!

We planted green beans, peas, carrots, radishes, cantelope, watermelon and pumpkins!

The last three are more for fun to see if we actually get anything.

A Long Awaited Update!

Happy Easter!!!

Our family Easter morning...

Daddy, Mommy

Joshua, Miriam

Joshua got a little GOLF set and LOVES it. Miriam likes to carry around the clubs and balls too. The Vikings hat served as his basket from G'ma & G'pa Harvala.

Looks like a pretty good swing to me.

We tried it out before the second service.

"Grandma Shel" and Miriam kinda matched with they pink on Easter.

So we took a picture.

We colored eggs a new way this year.

1. Put a few, up to 6 I suggest, in a strainer in the sink
2. "splash" more like pour 1/4 or 1/2 cup vinegar over the eggs
3. Drop food coloring on eggs (just like Joshua is doing there with the yellow)
4. Hold strainer, swirl eggs around, let set 30 seconds
* at this time we worked with a 2nd strainer in the adjoining sink while the coloring set *
5. repeat steps 3 & 4
6. It's suggested to use only 2 or 3 colors for each group of eggs you do or the colors will get "muddy" looking.
It was SUPER fast and a lot less preparation & cleanup! By the time we were done Joshua's attention span was done also, so it all worked out well!

Sink #2

Joshua was the master colorer.

What our eggs turned out like. Oh, and all the food coloring/vinegar on the towel washed out... no sign of it at all and I didn't even pre-treat it! Just used Norwex laundry detergent.