And when we do have a couple of days at home, we have so much work to catch up on from our business that there's not much time to work on the apartment.
And when we do work on the apartment, we have been working on our "yard." Since we have a first floor now we were given permission to plant in front of our porch. It's been quite fun actually finding our green thumb and getting outside for a little while in the evenings and playing in the dirt. Though I am not allowed to play in it much once the ant killer is put down! We just realized today that we should have been taking pitures the whole time but haven't been. We've pulled up old dead bushes and planted a lot of new things. Thanks to Andy's mom, Phyllis, we got a ton of great plants. She likes to work in her garden and took clippings from her own plants that she has grown and helped us replant them in our beds. They take a lot of water to get going so we water every night, but they seem to be growing for the most part. We will take some pictures starting now and show the progress from here on out as it continues to blossom!
One of the many things that has kept us busy this month was a family reunion. It was Andy's stepmom, Lorna's family and they hold it every year out on the family farm. That's where she and Andy's dad, Paul, live as well on thier own plot of land on the farm, and we stayed with them at their house overnight. It was nice to get away and be on a mini-vacation! I got to meet a lot of family members I had never met before and everyone was very nice and welcoming. Most of them hadn't seen Andy in at least a decade and hardly recognized him. Some even asked his dad how Andy was with Andy sitting right there!
Here are the pictures we took from the weekend. I won't go through each one but introduce them all at once. The first ones are of Paul and Lorna's farm. It's so beautiful and peaceful out there. Then there's some good pictures of Paul, Lorna, Andy's sister Rachel and her boyfriend BJ, and Andy's brother TC and his wife Lindsay. There's a few pics mixed in of the area where the actual reunion is held Many of the atendees camped out there. I am not camping at 6 months pregnant and was very grateful for the use of Paul and Lorna's bed and home and especially shower - it was quite hot! The last few are some pics of a bird's nest we found on Paul and Lorna's driveway.
I will updating again very shortly. I have a lot of baby news as well and I am sorry it has taken so long to get even this far!!! Hopefully we will be caught up soon and it won't take me this long again!
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