May 7th

May 7th, 2010 - Duluth MN



May 7th 2011 - Tehachapi CA

Not that it has been totally warm here yet either. Actually I think MN has had more warm days than we have lately... our neighbors here said they had a bit of snow in their backyard yesterday morning and we've had to cover our plants quite a few nights since planting them because of the cold and frost. 

More giggles :-)

Mother's Day Weekend

Friday night, Gabe and I drove in to town and met Adam after work at Home Depot. We bought a ton of flowers and some fruits and veggies to plant. Our landlord had cement poured last week, so there was a nice spot against the house where we planted a bunch of flowers. So Saturday, Adam and I spent a few hours working out in the yard.

Adam built a frame for a raised bed to grow some fruits and veggies. I guess groundhogs can be an issue, so we had to put some wire mesh on the bottom.



Flowers are all planted!



New Patio

Veggie & Fruit Garden! Some tomatoes, yellow/orange/green bell peppers, jalapenos, banana peppers. Also trying some a few strawberry plants and a watermelon plant... We'll see how those go :-)

Gabe has his own table out on the patio! This was his birthday present from us last year, but we finally got it set up this weekend. 

Saturday night, I went to a scrapbooking night at the store in town. Got a few pages done. Wasn't super organized ahead of time - haven't had a chance to uncpack all of my craft stuff. But it was a good time.

Sunday, we just spent the day getting stuff done around the house. Adam made french toast and bacon for breakfast - my favorite! :-) Then he worked on putting together a bookshelf and a nightstand for Gabe's room. I got some other random stuff picked up / unpacked / put away. For dinner, I made homemade pork egg rolls and beef lo mein. Everything turned out pretty tasty. :-)

Butter

A pound of butter comes in boxes like this. Same design, but different shape. When I first saw them, I would have sworn they were just half pound boxes with only 2 sticks of butter in them. But it is actually a pound with four sticks.

Four short, squaty sticks of butter. They are about 1/2 the length of regular sticks, but are larger around.

They look kind of silly on my butter dish... :-)

(I know, I'm a dweeb for doing a post about butter. But I just find it funny. Plus I love butter)

Lots of laughs!

Gabe had a good afternoon playing. Every once in a while, he gets this toy 'stuck' somewhere and he loves how the little springy guy hits other objects when he plays with it. This kept him giggling for a good 10 minutes or more.

More fun in the bathtub!

Easter

Easter was definitely different for us this year, since we weren't with any of our own family.
We started the day by going to church. We went to the same church we tried the week before, just because we didn't want to try a new church on Easter. But I still do want to check out some other ones in the coming weeks, just to see what else there is.
After church, we drove to California City, which is about an hour away. A family we had met at the church the week before invited us over to have Easter dinner with their family. So that was nice to be included in that. It was fun to get out and meet some more people. We spent a few hours there, and headed home around 4. Gabe hadn't napped yet (and hadn't gotten a decent nap the day before either) and wasn't going to last much longer before turning in to a crab. So he slept in the car on the drive home. We got home and just had a quiet night hanging out.

Weekend shopping

On Saturday we drove down to Bakersfield and did some shopping. We hit up Sam's Club, Walmart and Ashley Furniture and were pretty successful at all three places. :-) Gabe was a trooper and was very patient through it all.



At Sam's Club, we got a new printer/scanner (our old one didn't survive the move). We also got a bunch of bulk food and household goods. Good thing we drove the van - although we probably could have squeezed everything in the car. After Sam's we grabbed lunch quick at Farmer Boy's - a Culver's type fast food restaurant. The food was pretty good, but a little expensive for fast food. Walmart was more groceries and household stuff. Nothing too exciting.



At Ashley Furniture, we looked around for quite a while then finally decided to go ahead and order the things we liked. We got a counter height table with 6 stools.

The table has a butterfly leaf, which we really like. When the leaf is out, it's a big square table. The 6 stools fit around nicely, even without the leaf in.

We also ordered a sleeper sofa. (Hopefully it will get a lot of use from the many visitors we hope to have!)

Turns out, that same morning my mom ordered the same sofa and chair (although just a regular sofa - not a sleeper) in the same color as we did. Too funny.

Unfortunately the sofa sleeper was not in stock in their warehouse so it could take 5-7 weeks to get all of our furniture, but hopefully it comes in sooner.

After we finished at Ashely, we headed back to Tehachapi, with a quick stop at a farmer's maket for some fresh apples, oranges, almonds, and walnuts. We had dinner at an Italian restaurant in town, then headed home. But the shopping was not done yet - we ordered some stuff from Amazon when we got home, including a new cell phone for me, a mount for the tv in our bedroom and some fun orange luggage (since we will be flying a lot more now).