Who Me???!!!???

Whew... another MONTH has gone by and I haven't blogged a bit.  Guess you know what that means... Summer is HERE!!!

I can't sit still, I can't sit still... honestly I just can't!  One project after another.  I can't believe it.  My garden is coming along nicely.  It makes me smile to walk out there every day and see the fruits of my labor.  I am GROWING things!  It's happening for me!  I am pleased with what I have harvested so far.  Not much, but so far I have picked TONS of radishes, onions, one banana pepper, and 2, yep TWO RED strawberries!  I am constantly out there tinkering around.  Weeding, watering, looking, fertilizing.  It's time consuming, but I want a good bounty, so I'm busting my ass off trying to make that happen. I have onions, radishes, cucumbers, zucchini, butternut squash, spaghetti squash, peas, green beans,tomatoes, spinach, and cantaloupe and watermelon planted.  So far everything has bloomed up and looking good all but a few tomato plants.  They look pretty puny.  I am just not sure what to think about them.  I am trying something different next year, that's for sure.  This year is pissing me off cause I have replanted them a couple times and still, they die out.  Grrr... and we LOVE tomatoes the most.  Those were what I was going to can and use the most.  Grrrr...

 We have a new family member now... The KUBOTA!  Bill finally got his RTV that he's been drooling over for years now.  It's brand NEW and all HIS.  He's so happy about his new toy.  He is finding a million and one uses for it on the farm, which is good cause it will help pay for it! Here we are taking it out for our very first family cruise and Mommy gets to drive!!!

We've been working to get the pool up and going at moms and that was a job getting the water in tip top shape.  We refuse to let anyone swim in cloudy nasty water, so it took almost two weeks to get the water just right.  Here is Brody on the day we filled the pool... of course he had to play in some water that day!

I am so busy all the time.  Cole's playing ball again this year and it's so much fun going to his games and watching him play.  He's grown and learned so much in the last year.  He's doing so good and he really really loves playing ball.  We are so proud of him and his team.  They are doing so well this year.  They've won all their games so far but two.  Even when they lost, they gave it their all and tried really hard.  He has a different coach this year.  Coach Elbe moved up with his son, so Cole gets coach Rigg this year.  He is so patient with the boys and does such a good job giving them positive reinforcement and they all just love him.  He's taught them so much.  He is actually the high school baseball coach, so if he sticks around one day he may be their coach again when they get older.  

 I have done so many projects this year in my yard.  I am the one taking care of the yard work this year.  I've been mowing like forrest gump!  I really enjoy it a lot.  I have modified a few things in the yard because of the fact that I am not fond of our weed eater!  I hit up the green house this week for another project.  I ended up wanting to put some perennials around our 911 sign.  I am sick of having to hand weed eat around it or to drag the weed eater out just for that little spot.  I am now proud of my new "garden" I have to lay the mulch out today.  I got it yesterday at walmart. For now here is my work in progress.  

 We spend so much time out on our patio and in the yard at this new house.  We just love it here.  I love it so much.  I just can't even describe how happy we are here at this house.  This move was the BEST decision Bill and I have ever made.  It was perfect for our family.  It really has completed us.  This property is the missing link to our family chain.  This is our house we are going to grow old in.  I am in LOVE with it.  

Mom and Dennis came out last weekend and camped out over at the pond, but before they camped and fished we roasted weenies and made s'mores over a camp fire with moms fire pit that Dennis brought out.  Beth's boys were out and Megan was here and the kids has such fun!

That night mom decided she wanted to get Bill and I a fire pit for our Anniversary next week.  What a fabulous idea!  She took me shopping this week and we bought my fire pit.  We spent an evening this week putting it together and then roasted some s'mores with the kids.  It was such a fun night.  I love my new fire pit!  

The day we got my fire pit I bought a couple chairs for the front of the house.  We have nothing to sit on out there if the boys are playing in the front yard.  I wanted something simple to put out up there to just have a nice seat to.  I fell in LOVE with these chairs and am so happy that I got them both for under $40.  What a steal.  Cushions too.  They were on sale.  I love a bargain.  

 I do all Bill's online ordering entry for Kruger for him and I spent many days helping him in the shed doing inventory.  I told him I want TWO things for all my work.  #1 I want new tires on my van.  He said YES.  #2 I wanted a new patio table and chairs set he said YES to that too.  I ended up going to Walmart and getting a 6 chair set on sale for under $200 and it was a $400 set I had had my eye on last year and lucky me found it on SALE yesterday and bought it!  Wooo hooo.  Best part yet was when I saw it on Wednesday  and when I went back to get it yesterday it had went down in price another $25 yet!  I got the whole set for $160 and was so HAPPY!!!! Here is my table and chairs.  I have spent the morning today working on putting them together.  I have the table done and half the chairs done but have to take a break.  The sun is too HOT on me right now.  I need to just take a break and go back out after lunch and finish up.  I want to eat out there tomorrow night for fathers day.  Bill wants me to make him BBQ Ribs and I plan on us having a nice family picnic.  It will be a nice evening.  

I am doing so good lately.  I have been staying steady with my weight loss up until this week.  I actually lost a couple pounds over the last few days.  I think it's because I have been out working so hard and sweating my butt off. Once I get re hydrated I am sure I will gain it back?  I am steady at 200 lbs lost.  I feel fantastic.  I have all this energy to burn.  I just can't seem to sit still.  I have been working on this blog off and on for two hours now.  I keep coming back to it when I take a break.  

I am proud of myself for all that I have accomplished in the last year and four months.  I never pictured myself here in this place over a year ago.  I never saw this coming!  Mentally I have gone through a lot too.  It's a lot to take in all this weight loss and thoughts running through my head.  It's just taking my head a long time to wrap around the new me.  I still find myself gravitating to the plus size section in the stores when actually I need mediums or larges.  It's crazy to me.  I can't seem to let go of the fat me.  Maybe that's a good thing, maybe not?  I don't ever want to forget it.  I never want to be in that miserable place again.  I love myself and my life too much for that.  NEVER will I allow myself to go back there.  

I have to finish this for now.  I have some paperwork to print off for Bill.  Till next time... I am just being me and loving every second of the new ME ME ME!!!!