Spring in our Backyard

 Emy loves her garden dragonfly!

 Lunch in the backyard

 The girls love the hammocks!

 Ella, planting grass seed

 She's an excellent gardener!

 Emy, taking a break

Signs and Dr. Emy

Ella, watching Signs - She loves that movie and isn't afraid of it at all.

Signs

 Dr. Emy

Spring Photo Shoot

Our yard is starting to bloom and bunnies are starting to appear in larger numbers. We've seen our first lady bug, dragonfly, and caterpillar since last fall. Spring is definitely here with maybe a bit of summer too judging from the temperatures lately. :-)

Kitty visit - MuffCake

 Coonie, a.k.a Cuddle Puff

 Snook's enjoying the warmer temperatures. :-)

 Snook actually pauses for me to take her photo now.

 Azalia

 American Dogwood Tree (North Carolina's state flower)

My hanging basket of Pansies

Kitchen Refresh

Our kitchen updates were completed today. We now have stainless steel appliances, white cabinets with new hardware, Silestone Absolute Green Quartz counter tops, a huge single drain white sink, and a new faucet. The updates really took our kitchen to a new level. It looks beautiful!!!

Sead built us a new shelf unit to the left of the microwave. It's so much better than the huge box where the old microwave use to sit!

The girls love it too! :-)

You can see what the kitchen use to look like at http://crystieandsead.blogspot.com/2011/11/rest-of-house-is-finished.html.

Easter

I'm way behind on this post, but here it is finally. Most of these are of the girls during their Easter egg hunt.

 Of course! She's also the napkin eater. :-)

 A pause to collect a flower or two

 "Found it!"

 Discovering the candy inside the plastic eggs

 See the bumble bee to the left of the egg?

 Not much was blooming for Easter due to a several late freezes, but some of the wild flowers were out.

 I'd been bringing my potted plants in almost every night to keep them protected, so I do have lots of color on the front porch.

Art Class

 

 Ella loves her art class! This week they painted a puppy.

 

 

 

 

These are the other two paintings Ella has done so far.