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When we first viewd our new home, the garden that accent the front and sides of the house as well as the perimeter of the back yard appeared lush.  When we moved in, we quickly realized thistles were quite problematic in most of the garden beds.  The plantings were ecclectic, and too much.  Once again we resigned ourselves to ripping out the gardens and starting fresh with the look we want ...

Happy Weekend...YAY!How was your week?  Are you doing anything fun this weekend?  Fireworks?? We are celebrating Gracie's 7th birthday party tomorrow and we will have 15 seven year olds at the party so that will be fun and my Mother-in-Law is staying here for 11 days.  So, again, we are busy but having lots of fun!!  I can't believe Andrew is 3 weeks already!!We have another guest poster today and ...

Yesterday I told you about my new PVC raised gardening boxes in the far top left corner.  At $59.97 each on sale, they certainly were not a cheap way to build raised garden beds especially since between the two I ended up with 16 square feet of growing space.  My husband doesn't like the new PVC beds so he picked up some spruce to build me a wooden raised bed.The new raised bed is 4' x 12' ...

I use a variety of garden bed styles, preferring raised beds but like in ground beds for flower beds.  Shortly after arriving home from our spring vacation, Home Hardware had 4' x 4' PVC raised garden boxes on sale for $59.97.  As raised beds go, these were expensive but I reasoned the PVC would out live the untreated spruce I normally use for my raised garden beds.  The looked slick and a bit ...

One of our favorite lunches to eat is yogurt but we like to make a certain kind!!  We eat this so much that even our babysitter makes this at home now.This is our favorite yogurt to eat!We put it into a bowl.The kids do all this themselves. Then we grab a bag of frozen fruit.Then, we add the fruit to our yogurt!Then we add organic stevia and pure vanilla extract.Next, we mix it all together!The kids like some ...

Several weeks ago, we hosted some of our Shaklee Team at our house so we can all attend some training!!  Our team is nation wide and this was my first time physically meeting most of them!  We had a blast!!!  Our team becomes our family when joining!!  Since, we recently finished our basement, we had a ton of space for air mattress so several girls camped out in my basement!I made a bed for each person. I ...