Our Interesting Gardens....

Earlier this year, in the Spring, we decided that we were going to plant a garden this year. David spent a lot of time and labor digging and building the garden boxes for me. By the time he was done building, it was soooooooo hot during the day! And we flaked out on planting :( So just some weeds grew for a while. Fast forward a couple months. We are eating dinner outside on our patio, and we notice this strange thing growing in one of the garden boxes. We investigate and we don't recognize it at all, so we leave it alone to see what happens. A few weeks later, we check it out again, and guess what? It's a tomatillo plant!!! What?!! And it's flourishing and has lots of tomatillos growing on it. Where in the world did this come from? I asked out neighbor who had threatened to throw seeds over the fence because we didn't plant anything. She said that the previous owners planted tomatillos and now they just randomly pop up in different places. I guess one of them decided to pop up in the middle of one of our garden boxes. I even took pictures to prove it to you!

 

 The giant plant above, the tomatillo below. And there are a lot of them!

 

 I can't wait to make creamy tomatillo dressing with them. I hope they taste good...


Now on to the other "interesting" garden. In our front flower garden, we have a bunch of snap dragons. Many colors, so beautiful! They have spread like crazy and morphed into new colors. Lovely! Now, who would have thought that when these pretty flowers die, and the petals fall off, they would look like tiny little skulls!! Look below for proof!

 

 I know these pictures are a little fuzzy because it was hard to get a close up of these little things, but you can see what I'm talking about. Tiny little skulls. I have tons of them now. I'm tempted to make little Halloween necklaces. Glue hair on them...you know. The possiblilities are endless! If you want a close look, feel free to stop and look as you pass by sometime.

 

So, random tomatillo plants popping up in the garden, and a little skull garden in the front. You're jealous, right?

Darkness+Stairs=Sprained Ankle

So, last Wednesday night, my sweet hubby spent a few hours helping his brother lay sod at his new house. When he got home, he was waaaay tired! Poor guy. Well, at about 11:15 that night, David was in bed and I went downstairs to fill my water bottle (I need the filtered water from the fridge, not tap water because I'm a water snob). I thought I knew my house enough to make it down the stairs without turning on the lights. I actually thought the soft glow from our fish tank in the living room would be enough. WRONG! I was going along and suddenly found myself hurtling down the stairs and landed at the bottom in A LOT of pain. I heard a pop from my ankle on the way down, super gross! So I was sitting on the floor moaning and saying 'ow ow ow ow". Luckily my sleepy husband heard me and came down to see what the big thump was. He got my some ice while we watched the swelling begin. I guess I'm not a super good blogger because I didn't have the presence of mind to snap a pic while the ankle was massive. Anyway, David took me to the ER to have it x-rayed. Of course, the doctor comes in and pokes it "does that hurt?" Yes! Duh! Then the bring the x-ray machine to me (not gonna lie, that was neat) and he proceeds to make me bend my ankle in many ways that caused me to want to shreik like a little girl (Why do they do that?!) And the result was just a sprained ankle. They gave me a splint and crutches. I've since ditched the crutches, but I still need the splint because my ankle pops in a gross way sometimes.

This last weekend we spent with the Liddle clan for a family reunion, and I am now enjoying giving my foot a break from all that action!  Here are some pics of my ankle journey:

                                              This a picture of the splint I have to wear

                                    These are the cursed crutches that I'm glad to be rid of!

                          The beautiful fish tank that caught my attention just before the tumble.

These are the stairs I went down

You can kind of see the purple bruising. It refused to show up good in pictures. And the swelling is way down at this point.

I have this sweet friend who brought this to me. It's a motion sensor light for the stairway! What a sweet woman :)

Kate drew this on our white board. She also took great delight in calling me "stomp n' drag".

That is pretty much the joy I've been experiencing this week. BTW, While we were in the ER, it became our 22nd anniversary at midnight! We shared a small kiss and said "happy anniversary" :)

It's been a year......

Okay so. It's been a year. Or more. I have been bugged and bothered by my eldest daughter to update this for a loooong time. Long time. There has been too much that has happened to go back and try to talk about everything, so I will just start from NOW!

My birthday was on Monday. My beautiful daughter, Kate, cleaned out my bakery cupboard by buying cute little bins and whatnot to organize it all. If you want to see it, go to her blog (link on the right side). My equally beautiful daughter, Erika made my yummy birthday cake. YUM!!! I've been eating it for breakfast for days. We went to eat at the Training Table, which is one of my favorite places to eat. Again, YUM. Then my sweet husband got me a new sofa from IKEA!!!!!!!! I was really hating our old sofa because it was old and green and our carpet is green. Yuck. Plus, you can clean the covers of the IKEA sofas. Here is a picture of my new, lovely sofa.

Isn't it beaufiful! I love it! Now, when we were moving the old sofa out of the house, I heard all this "stuff" falling inside of it. What? I mean, it sounded like a LOT of stuff!! We had taken off the cushions, so it wasn't there. Must be deep inside. So today, Kate and I went into the garage to investigate the "stuff" noise. I removed some stapes from the bottom lining and reached my hand inside. Oh. My. Goodness!!!!! My first HANDFULL was mostly pens and pencils. I kept reaching in, and pulling out more. And more. And more. How many times did I reach? I don't know. But here are some pictures of what we found, minus the extreme amount of trash:

This is 22 pencils, scripture markers, 12 markers, chalk, and legos. I'm really surprised that is all the legos that escaped.

 This is a key of Josh's and he stole the "ring of power" from our Lord of the Rings Monopoly game and put in on his key ring! I always wondered why he would disappear unexpectedly.....

 2 combs, hair stuff, make up, and a package of sewing needles.

Only 2 pieces of candy. I guess you know we won't let much of that get away.

 22 pens.

Assorted toys. And know, we haven't had Bratz dolls in our house for years! So those shoes were there quite a while.

An old remote to a DVD player. I think we actually had to buy a replacement for that....

Crayons, paint brushes, glow stick (which was unbroken until today) and some nerd glasses.

One Disney dollar, a quarter, and a small curtain rod. Yep. A curtain rod.

2, count 'em, 2 rulers. And a cute star eraser.

 Various jewelry.

And a note from one of Kate's friends back in Springville. We moved from there like 7 years ago.

So there you go. We never clean out our furniture. I'm not gonna lie, I was hoping for more money! Oh well.

I know I posted last summer about some chairs I was redoing. I haven't finished, but I hope to by the end of THIS summer and then I will write a new post.