I’m all packed and ready for NYC, but before I depart, I must leave you with a glimpse of our noble knight, high in the order of chivalry and bearing the most noble of arms.

My brother-in-law and his family are missionaries in Thailand, check out their blog here. They just had their second son over there, Calvin Lewis and my mother-in-law traveled there for a month to help out with their 2-1/2 year old. Well, she came home last week with the following goodies, beautiful orchids, a money purse, a silk elephant tie for Jay, 2 elephant toys for the boys, and some beautiful Thai fabric I can’t wait to cut into or I might make a sling for myself. Thanks Crystal and Paul and Grammie for the gifts from Thailand!

I’m getting excited about my trip to New York City this weekend! Going with my two best college buddies, Kelli and Katie. We are all flying out of different cities (Jax, Atlanta and West Palm) and meeting in New York on Thursday morning and leaving Sunday afternoon. The weather looks chilly there for the weekend with a high of 62 degrees. Guess I will have to layer up, thanks Mom for teaching me about layering, have to give credit where it’s due.
We plan on shopping, touring and checking out the museums of course and eating really well. Oh, and maybe we will even brave the cold early morning crowd outside of the Today Show, with crazy hats and signs, so keep and eye out for us on Friday morning!
The husband is in charge of the boys for the weekend and he is even taking two days off work, which is his looking forward to, so he can work and play in the yard with the boys. Maybe he will have another chicken tractor done by the time I get back! Whoo, hoo!
So if I don’t post for a while, it’s probably because I am busy getting ready, making my packing list, washing clothes and packing my bags for the “BIG APPLE”!!

We are getting ready for spring these days with flowers and a garden. Last month we planned out our spring garden, a 25′ x 25′ area to include corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. Jay prepared the area with a rotatiller, thanks to “our neighbors” and Ian helped spread fertilizer and peet moss around, then we planted corn a few weeks ago. Now we have little corn sprouts that the boys love to check out everyday. We are looking forward to learning how to garden and grow vegetables with the boys. I am going to try to post when there is progress and keep this blog updated with our gardening adventure, whether it’s good or bad.

Yesterday, Ian and I read this book about trees and in the back, it had a little project for making bird treats to hang in a tree. It is really cute and easy for a yound child to make. Here are the directions: you need cookie cutters, bread, egg whites, bird seed and string. Cut out a shape in the bread, then poke a hole with a chop stick through the bread at the top of the shape, then brush egg white over the bread and press bird seed into it. Let it dry, then tie the string through the hole and hang it in a tree for the birds and squirrels to enjoy! We made a dog bone, a bunny and a foot!