Wow, where to start. Today is Lisa’s two month birthday, whoa! And she weighs 9 pounds 5 ounces. Almost 9 and a half pounds, she is a growing! She holds her head up pretty good, follows voices, she grabbed for a Pooh toy hanging on her swing the other day!

She starts day care on May 1st. Funny story there… I called the Day care place, because when we went and toured the place it was still under construction and they didn’t have their accreditation for infants yet. Well we finally filled out the paper work, and I called them yesterday. And she said we have a class of 7 now, with one spot left for Lisa, we have her scheduled to start on May 1st. I was like wait a minute, don’t you think it would be a good idea to tell ME that she is supposed to start on May 1st. Anyways we found out, so no biggie, now we are going to go on Monday more than likely to visit with her teachers Ms. Bunny (yes like the Easter bunny) and Ms. Stephanie. Fun Fun…

I have spent the last month trying to fix a HUGE problem we have had in our back yard. When it rains we end up with a moat. Because the dumb dumbs that built our house grated the perimeter of our yard so that it slopes away from our house and yard. Well since the yards around us (mainly the one behind us) is on a hill higher than our yard, all this does is make a giant moat around our yard. Which is real fun with two dogs, and no grass in the back yard.

So anyways that was the problem, so to fix it, I seeded the yard, with the help of Carey (THANK YOU). That should take care of some of the mud, now to the moat. I lined about 3 feet out from the fence with that weed fabric stuff (the black stuff), and then put small river rocks (gravely sized) down, and lined it with larger river rocks, so it makes a dry river bed, or at least thats what it sorta looks like. Well that took FOREVER. I was going to plant some water loving plants in my “river” but Keegan has since destroyed them, so yeah no plants back there…. (you can see the pots in the pictures). Well the grass has finally started growing real good, and our back yard actually looks pretty decent. If you think it looks bad, everywhere there is light colored green-ness, used to be DIRT!!!!!

I also spend Easter Sunday water sealing the fence, and it looks really good now, its a pretty color!

While buying plants and rocks for the back yard I bought some bulbs and plants for the front flower beds too. I planted lots of day lilies, gladiolas, and two other kinds of flowers I don’t remember what they are, but they are blue when they bloom. Anyways my glads are starting to sprout, yay! Its always scary when you plant bulbs if they are going to sprout or not. Anyways the pictures are here.

While mowing my yard (makes the grass look better in the back yard, and keeps the weeds down) I found a rabbit hole. I have been dealing with this rabbit for a while now. It has been eating my cantas when they start to come up, and my tulips, anyways not so thrilled with this rabbit. So I mowed over the new rabbit hole (second one I have found in my yard). Then when I was weed eating, I was trying to get the rabbit fur out of the hole with the weed eater when I heard a horrid sound. Stopped the weed eater and realised there were baby bunnies in this hole, it wasn’t abandoned like the last one… So I had to gather up some gloves and a bucket, then I gathered up the bunnies, all 8 of them, and relocated them to a new home far away from houses or people (till it gets developed….).

I also applied for a job at the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Crime Lab, doing DNA casework! Its in Jefferson City, but it pays pretty good, which makes the 30 minute drive worth it! (Now lets keep our fingers crossed that I get the job!)

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