A post without a baby in it?!

I know, I know- how can there be no baby?!

I swear I do think about and do other things than take pictures of my baby with large flowers on her head.

For instance- our garden this spring!

I've wanted to get a real garden going for so long. We first moved to Michigan in August, so it was too late in the season. Then the next year we moved from that first house in the middle of July, so there was not a lot of motivation to get really going on a garden we'd leave halfway through the summer. And by the time we got settled in to our current house, it was again to late in the season to really get anything going.

So finally, we are staying put for awhile and have this wonderfully big backyard to do whatever we want to it. It has been neglected for a long time, so we've been putting a lot of time in to cleaning it out this year. Hopefully by next year all the stuff we are planting now will have really filled in. And of course, we are starting our little vegetable garden! I don't know why I am so excited about this, but I am! Since our yard is so big, at first I wanted to go crazy and plant this HUGE veggie garden- but then I realized I would have to take care of all that. So, we have a smaller section all dug up and are getting plants ready to go in (you can't plant until after Mother's Day in Michigan). I am very excited to see if I can make these things grow, and protect them from the bazillion squirrels that live around here.

But there is nothing as rewarding as working in the dirt and getting a veggie you grew back from it!

Marten got to move outside too with the nice weather- he is in bunny heaven after being couped up in doors all winter. He literally does flips in his little bunny run out here. It's amazing.

Raspberry bush

Lettuces, etc. getting ready to be planted

One part of our yard was super shady, and grass didn't want to grow there. So we built a little feature and transplanted a bunch of fiddlestick ferns and hastas in to it- they are growing sooo fast. Rick calls it our 'Fern Gully'.