Getting Caught Up to Memorial Day Weekend

We have been spending a lot of time on yard work on the new house. We have decided to do one section at a time. When you think of a third of an acre, you don't think of it as being very big, but when you are trying to turn it into grass and a nice yard...well it's a lot bigger than you think. So far, we now have the front yard planted with seed. It will take a few weeks to see how our hard work turned out. We also are trying a garden this year. We have corn, strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, green beans and bell peppers. I am trying to grow the majority of the ingredients for my sweet salsa, so i can make and can a bunch of that this fall. We had decided not to put my pool up this year because we have no fence, but we saw that our next door neighbor has put theirs up and figured why not...so we got an area ready to put the pool up. We figured as long as we keep the ladder put away no one will try to get into it anyways. My pool is my way of relaxing in the heat. After work I just go out and float! I am getting excited for it to get warmer so I can spend my time out there.
Let's see, I missed posting about Easter. It was really a fun weekend. It's been a long time since I have had a baby around to enjoy all the fun parts of Easter. We took Bailey to an Easter egg hunt in our neighborhood. Then we colored eggs. Then on Sunday we had dinner and another egg hunt for Bailey! It is so enjoyable watching her grow! I have always loved being a mom, but being a grandma is just as great if not better...I can spoil her and then send her home!!!
Erika is home for the summer. She is planning on going to school here in Logan at Utah State University in the fall. She is a little nervous being so close to home, afraid that I will "mother" her too much or that she will hurt my feelings because seh wants to move out. I am working really hard keeping the apron strings unattached and just enjoying her being closer, so we can play. She has been going with me to the gym and being my personal trainer. It has been kind of frustrating, everytime I start getting in the routine of exercising, it seems like a get sick or hurt. This last week I got so sick from an infection in my saliva gland...I truly thought I was going to die. Had to go back to the doctor a second time to convince him it was an infection. Anyways, I am better now and going to start going back to the gym tonight or tomorrow.
Yesterday for Memorial Day, we went to the cemetery and we all shared a memory of both grandma and grandpa Mouritsen. It was pretty touching. Then we went home and fixed dutch oven potatoes.
And now here we are at Tuesday. Nothing else really happening! Just waiting to be able to get to do my balancing for the month end!
We are planning a yard sale for the 13th of June. The family is teasing me, cus we got rid of so much stuff when we moved in November and now as I am still trying to empty boxes, I am finding more stuff to get rid of. Whatever we don't sell is just going to the D.I. It is amazing how much junk one person can collect! Well, for now I will go. I am still trying to find time to learn how to update and add pictures, when I do you will get to see a bunch! Til later. Love ya all!