Still a lovely Spring

I am impressed with and loving how long we are having a real Spring! So often we go from Winter to Summer with just a few mild days in between. No matter how warm the temperature gets though, I will always take Summer over Winter :) We enjoyed the mild weather a couple of weekends ago to pull out some of the original landscaping and put in some new plants. It was a lot of hard work, but the cool temperatures made it rather fun!

Before

After

Although some of the plants are now smaller and we have to wait longer for the fuller looking landscape, we really had to change out some plants that were not conducive to their placing and some that were scrawny and dying. We hope to add some color with bedding plants later to finish it off.

Another reason we are enjoying Spring is that baseball season has started! We've watched the first 3 Astros games, and even though they lost them all I am optimistic because at least this season they're scoring runs early in the season!! :) We are planning to go to College Station to see an Aggie baseball game once we get our new van.

Yes, we are purchasing a minivan - something neither one of us ever thought we would do!! We are getting a 2011 Honda Odyssey when the dealership gets our color in this month. Once we finally decided that it was the most practical choice for us we got very excited about it and are anxiously waiting for it to get here!

Andrew has now cut his two front bottom teeth and has the top two getting very close to coming in as well! He loves to stand in his crib and chew on the top rail. Because he only has his bottom teeth, the inside of the rail is all scratched up! I need to get a protective cover before the top teeth come in!! He is continuing to practice pulling up and balancing - he is getting pretty good and can actually stand for a couple of seconds without holding on to anything before he carefully lets himself down! He always amazes us and keeps us smiling :)