Garden Creatures

I know, another post already? Weird. I guess that means life is getting back to normal. As I was weeding the sadly neglected garden, I found several surprises. This is one of two toads--the much bigger one. He was very fun and the girls really wanted to keep him. I told them we'd keep him in our garden.

These, however, are NOT going to live in my garden!! This is the second time we've found a rabbit nest in our garden. In this picture, you can see the pile of grass and hair that was the covering for the nest on the right, and the tiny babies buried on the left.After uncovering the nest a little more...

Then I picked up all five babies with a shovel and moved them to their new home, the bushes in my neighbor's yard!

I'm Back!

This has been one crazy, busy summer! I thought life was going to be so easy going after the girls got out of school, then I ended up going to six days of church Girl's Camp, and pretty much as soon as my laundry was done, I packed again for a weekend trip to Palmyra, NY with the youth in our stake. During girl's camp, my kids were lucky enough to have their aunt Krystal come and take care of them. They were very spoiled and had so much fun. I was a little spoiled, too. Even after I got home, she was still doing all the work. It was great! I was the lucky one the following weekend for the youth trip to have two very good friends who took care of the girls for me. Thank you all for helping us!!!

This is an egg (unfertilized) that our parakeet decided to lay this summer. She actually laid two, but the first one was broken. Pretty fun!
And this is what I call happiness!! I took several starts of these plants out of my neighbor's yard last year (with her permission) and planted them here in my side yard. No blooms last summer, but this year they took off! My plants are even bigger and prettier than my neighbor's!