Spring has Sprung!

Well, we finally got some spring weather. It was cold and snowy through Thursday (yes, we got snow on Thursday :)), but this weekend has been fantastic. We spent most of yesterday outside clearing an area for a garden. We want to do some herbs and a few vegetables. We just had to clear an area that might get enough sun during the day. We think we've found an area, so hopefully it will work. We have some herbs in window boxes along our driveway, but will put a few more in the garden area. Chris managed to hack his way through a fair amount of trees. We also discovered why nothing would grow in that area of the yard -- it was overgrown with roots. After we turned it once we rooted it. We will turn it again next Saturday and root some more, then hopefully plant as we have to start from seed. :) A really liked helping to play in the dirt. A played in the dirt so much that she went to bed at 730 and woke up at 830 this morning. She did get up at 630, shut our door, and went to stand at the fridge since she was apparently thirsty, but then went back to sleep.

She also liked it when the puppy from down the road came and played with her. The puppy, Daphne, has a broken electric fence so wonders to our house a lot. Daphne will play fetch incessantly. She is some kind of bird dog and will just go. She will also play catch, with thrilled A. Daphne showed up as we were trying to console A since we wanted her to leave her Star Wars puppy inside. We then tempted A to forget about the puppy inside since there was a real puppy to play with outside. One really cool thing was that Daphne actually belongs to the mother of one of the couples from church. The male is over tech stuff so he and Chris work together for church stuff a lot. They also have 2 girls, one a little older than A, and one a little younger than A. If you remember the veggietale post from a few weeks back, it is the little girl in the picture with A.

Since we didn't get fun pictures this weekend since our hands were covered in dirt, here are some from last week's trip to Build-A-Bear.

Getting ready to stuff their new best friends

Hugging their new best friends

Ready to leave with new friends in boxes. They didn't stay in the box very long though...