life interrupted

It seems I have slipped a bit again.  So much has happened since my last post and I don't really know where to begin.  On May 12th, Taylor and I ran in the Race for the Cure-Boise.  It was a gorgeous day and I felt really good.  I beat my first race time by 2 minutes and of course Taylor was waiting for me at the finish line again.  She is a speedy little thing.  It was a lot of fun and I look forward to my next one which is probably in August.

Boise Race for the Cure 2012

My friend is a nutritionist and I decided to work with her and try and get my nutrition on track and I am so glad I did.  I also took progress pictures for the first time since last September and all I can say is I was so shocked at how much my body has changed for the better since then.  I attribute it to beginning weight lifting.  Even though the scale hadn't moved much at all, I have definitely lost a lot of inches.  The first week of working on my nutrition I lost 5 pounds.  Its a 30 day program intended to help me become a "cleaner" eater and eliminate added sugar and processed foods.  It has been challenging and I will have to incorporate a lot of this for the rest of my life but I am happy with it so far.  I am officially coffee-free and have been drinking green tea instead.   For anyone that knows me... this is HUGE! I can't wait til the end of the 30 days so I can compare it again.

My garden is doing wonderful!!  I have four types of tomatoes, jalapenos, bell peppers, cucumbers, Lemon cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, summer squash, lettuce, scallions, spinach, wax beans, green beans and carrots all growing now.  I have room for two more cucumber plants and then they will all be full.

My first radish

The radishes I have picked since this are a bit bigger and the plants in the beds are a lot bigger now.

Mother's day this year was great.  My husband (and children of course) thought of the perfect gift.  When we bought this house, the front landscaping was a MESS.  There were three huge nasty rose bushes and I wasted no time digging those up immediately and I pulled out all of the myrtle that had taken over.  I uncovered a truckload of river rock and listed it on craigslist for free so it would get hauled away.  The bed has sat empty for over a year now.  On Mother's day I woke up to this beautiful sight-

Mother's day 2012

This wasn't enough to fill the area so the next week I went and bought some more to fill the space.  I am so happy with how it looks.  It is different than most people have around here with their bushes and daylilies.  I wanted lots of color so I have it now.  Now all we need is some mulch and it will be complete.

Summer has officially started and we are going to have a busy one.  My son graduated from kindergarten, my oldest is officially a middle schooler, we have two kids in tee-ball and games or practices 4 of the 5 days a week.  I have decided to cut back on work so I can be more available at home.  It was a hard decision to make but one that was needed and I think it will really help on many levels.  As it was before, I would have missed every single game of theirs and that was just not acceptable.

I am sorry I was neglectful and I hope I have been able to play a little catch-up with this post.  Thanks for visiting!  

Girls Gone Wild!

Ha! If you got here looking for something "else", I hate to disappoint! You won't find any of that here.

So spring break has been less than productive.  I have not made it to the gym even once yet, we only went on one excursion due to all this massive rain, and not a whole lot has been done around the house.  Oh well sometimes its nice to just be lazy and sleep in.  We did go to the zoo on Tuesday.  It started out really windy and cold but once that died down it was a nice day.  Before we went to the zoo, we played at Kathryn Albertson Park and had a picnic.  Then we walked along the Boise Greenbelt for about a mile and learned some rules of the road and trail manners to get to  Zoo Boise.  It was a really fun day and to top it off after wards we went to Baskin Robbins for a cone.

Boise Greenbelt

Now as for the title of my post... my chickens are being naughty.  Since we live in a neighborhood, our back fence is shared with the neighbors.  The chickens like to take dirt baths right beside the fence and it is causing holes that are creeping to the neighbors yard.

The other day while doing some landscaping, Brent noticed the neighbors filling in our holes.  Brent had warned me for many weeks that we needed to fix it and I honestly didn't know how.  If I put dirt there they would just dig it out again and they are pretty adept at shuffling rocks around as well.  I decided to get some bricks and line them up along the fence.  I was about to go buy some when a co-worker said she had some I could have so I went and picked them up.  So far I have the back part laid out and I think it will work well.  I just want to keep the neighbors happy or else some chickens will find their way to freezer camp!