My Trees

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When we were shopping for a house…one of the things I wanted was a fruit tree.  I wasn’t sure what I wanted, but I didn’t find it.   So, my brother-in-law and sister said they’d take me to the bare root sale up in their area to pick out my own.  And yesterday was the day!!

To be honest, I wanted one of everything – so ending up with 5 seems pretty conservative to me.  Here are my new trees:

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Bing Cherry – one of my earliest memories is climbing the cherry tree when I was a kid in Mt Shasta and eating myself sick

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Bartlett Pear – Eric’s favorite fruit

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Arctic Jay White Nectarine – J1’s favorite fruit

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Combination Apple including: Gravenstein, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious, Fuji and Red McIntosh

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Dwarf Robertson Navel Orange

Can’t wait to see how they grow over the years! 🙂

Photo Dump

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I went to download pics of our zoo trip and found that I haven’t uploaded pictures since before J1’s birthday.  So now you are going to get lots of pictures this post!  Sorry if anyone is still on dial-up!

001First…a before picture of J1’s birthday pie – apple.  No after pictures…it went quick!! Yum!

005J1 turned 14!

025J2, J1, J3 and JGirl at the Zoo

029Grammy & Flamingos at Zoo

030The whole family at the Zoo.

041Making friends at the zoo!  No, really we planned to meet up with Trina and the kids.

Today I met my BIL and sister and bought trees for our backyard.  I’m so excited about it – but I’ve got a very tired toddler who really needs to be put to bed.  (Is it really only 6:45??)  I guess I’ll save that for tomorrow!  Night all!

Fridays

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Fridays are great days! We usually save JGirl’s therapies for Fridays and we have a light school day.  Today we have OT in the morning and then a trip to the zoo.  Grammy is giving us a family pass for one year!  I’m very excited and charging up my camera battery as soon as I’m done typing this!

Just in case our Friday is TOO much fun, I’m posting this now and I’ll post pictures tomorrow.  But if I can find the time and energy then I’ll post them tonight!

Oh! And Saturday!!! I can’t wait!  I’m meeting Kevin & Beth at a nursery up by their place to buy trees! I want a couple of fruit trees and Hubs wants a shade tree for our back yard!  Afterwards we’ll all come here to have dinner.

I’m leaning towards an orange and a lemon tree….but I’m really open to any type of fruit tree.  Maybe a lime?  a Kumquat?  A pear?  An apple?   Anyone have a good suggestion for me to consider?

One-sided conversations

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Me…to Hubs….he’s ignoring me! 😉
knitnmom5kids (1:27:01 PM): We have power again!!
knitnmom5kids (1:27:18 PM): And, I went to Costco and bought salad stuff – and a rotisserie chicken for dinner.
knitnmom5kids (1:27:23 PM): And, James is sick
knitnmom5kids (1:30:17 PM): and your daughter just got her arm stuck in the dining room chair and screamed her head off.  You miss all the fun!

See what happens when I’ve got nothing to blog about?? 😉

I did it! I did it!

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First, Thanks TooManyHats for catching my date mistake in the last post!  I guess I was stuck in a timewarp….again! 😉

Second, I’m so jazzed!!  I’ve been wanting to get a workout membership at Workout Express ever since Eric joined last year, but due to JGirl’s arrival I had to put it off.  Today I got my membership and did the circuits!  It was SO fun.  It was quick-paced so even the horrible machines were doable.  And, just about the time I thought I couldn’t do another second on a machine – the ‘voice’ told me it was time to change machines – Hurray!!

And, another fun thing…I was able to meet the Hubs there and follow him around the circuit!  We hope to meet up there 3 times a week – and I hope to go one additional day.  Here’s to hoping we can keep it up!