Dave & Malissa visit

Dave & Malissa came from Wyoming yesterday , so Julie ordered 15 lbs  of crawfish from  Louisiana Crawfish  Co.   Julie ordered them pre-cooked and frozen, so I only had to boil them for 2 minutes. 

Malissa thought he was  cute and named him Charlie. It's much harder to eat "Charlie"  than to eat a crawfish.

Dave on the other hand had no trouble eating Charlie or any the other 20 or so crawfish he ate.

The reactions were mixed but after a while I think they were just too much work for so little meat.

Angelle worked really hard for that one little delicious bite! Rekiah...not so much!

Nate liked them just fine. Jodi made the mistake of telling him he could help her tear apart this bug! He was all for it! Boys will be boys!

Hannah's Birthday Party

Hannah was getting plenty of advise and help.

It didn't take her long to figure out how to open them herself

A regular Hollywood starlet

This was on Monday. When we arrived  she was wearing a pink outfit. I took the boys to breakfast and gymnastics and when we got home she had changed. She's just like her big sister.

This afternoon I cut a couple of shoots off of the  Aspen tree in front of our house and  put them in these pots. 

I used a root growth product so I'm hoping that  they will make it.

I was working in the front yard and a deer came in the back yard and ate both shoots and pulled them out of the  pots.

I couldn't find the 2nd shoot, so I planted this Flowering Crabapple start that I had  growing in a  margarine tub. 

Backyard project

I've been working in the back yard. Saturday Outback had a special before Mother's day, so JuBug and I went there for dinner. Afterwards we went to Costco and she made her yearly petunia purchase. They also had these planters and they look better then the old plastic ones we used so we got them for the petunias. We spent Mother;s day planting the petunias and preparing to move the flowering Plum tree to the center and Monday we bought a new Flowering Crab apple tree. I also got a yard of soil for the lawn leveling project just 18 or so more yards of soil to go.