I looked out the window and what did I see?

I just realized I post a lot of pictures about plants.  I'm sorry if you guys are sick of it.  Tough.  Until I get kids, plants are my love.  Look how gorgeous all these trees are!  These are some of the blossoms I see when I look out my back window.

Let's just say, Pittsburgh did not disappoint me this season.

I'm in love

With my precious tulip that just bloomed!

Manis and Pedis

My good friend Rachelle just had a big birthday, and we've been partying ever since!  For one of our celebrations we all went to get pampered with a delicious breakfast and manis & pedis.  So fun!

I have an obsession with taking pictures of my feet.  Can you tell?

We had all our nails under the special light to make them dry quicker...I just like the way it looks!

Happy Anniversary to me....

So today is Danny and my 3rd anniversary.  

Are we celebrating it with a night out on the town?
No.

Are we staring lovingly into each others eyes, strengthening the bond between us?
No.

Are we enjoying a peaceful evening at home watching our wedding video and pondering back on how far we have come together?
NO!

We are doing none of those things! Cursed surgery rotation!  He just started surgery yesterday and found out at 3pm that he had call tonight.  He kissed me goodbye at 5:30 this morning while I was in bed, and I won't see him again until tomorrow night around 7pm (hopefully) at which time he will probably head straight up to bed so he will be rested enough to get up at 5am and start again.  Sound fun?

So since I don't get to spend time with him, I will blog about him.

Just a few of the reasons I love Danny:
~Every day he has some new nickname for me that makes me smile.
~If we're both really busy working on projects, he's always the one to come over and make sure we spend some quality time together (even if I get frustrated at the time because he is interrupting me).
~I don't think I'm a moody person, but next to him I seem bipolar. He always puts up with my antics and leaves me laughing in the end.
~He gets excited with me about my plants.
~If I'm really worn out from work he'll make us dinner and I love him for it...even if it is something really easy, like warming up the leftovers.
~He loves to sing songs, but instead of the real words he will always change to lyrics to be about me.

I LOVE you Danny!!  Thank you for 3 amazing years!

Well hello there

They came!  Well, one of them anyway.  My broccoli popped up to say hello just three days after I planted them.  I love my little plants.  It's always been remarkable to me that something so little as a seed can start something so amazing.

I'm excitedly anticipating the rest of my plants, but I thought I would share this little accomplishment with the world.

I'm realizing that they are quickly going to outgrow their egg carton home.  I want to plant them in containers on my deck so no animals eat them before we can.  Any ideas of a cheap container I can put dirt and plants in so I don't have to spend $100 on a big planter?

Bring on the Veggies!

I've helped my mom in our garden when I was younger but I've never had my own garden until we moved here.  My very first gardening attempt was last August after we had settled into our new home here in Pittsburgh.  I started some bean seeds I had left over from my kindergarten class in Philly.  I went out and dug up the weeds by the side of my house and planted the beans there.  They grew great.  When the flowers came I knew the beans would not be far off.  Imagine my happiness as I was about to reap the fruits of my labor.  

Then imagine my dismay as I discovered one day after work that my plants had been torn up.  It looked like a kid had gone out there with scissors and cut the tops off each plant.  It took me a while, but I finally realized those beautiful deer that I love to watch roaming around in my neighborhood were feasting on MY BEANS! The plants grew more, and the deer ate more, and such was the story of my garden.  By the time it started getting cold outside I was able to go out and gather a bowl full of beans - enough for one meal.

This year I didn't know if I would bother with a garden.  What was the point if it was just going to be grazed over every week?  Deer eating our plants was definitely not a problem we had to deal with in Dallas.  At enrichment though we had a class all about container gardening.  The Mormons in the east are not going to let some critters stop us from our natural instincts.  It's in our blood to plant gardens, even if we don't get much return on our efforts.

So here we go.  Round 2.  I've been saving the egg cartons all winter, the seeds I got at enrichment, and I found some pots and some dirt at an estate sale.  Even if we have no money, I'll get those seeds in the dirt one way or another.  Now, the question is if I'll get any plants? 

To be continued...