Spring Flowers

My flowers seem to be coming back nicely this year. That makes me happy!
The side yard:


The park strip: (this should be nicer next year when my new ground cover grows and spreads out.)


The front of the house:




The front by the driveway:


The front fence:

Out With The Old And In With The New

My friend posted about her "white trash" table so I thought I would do the same!
I had a 'white trash' tile top table. I thought I would paint it, started sanding the chairs and even half painted a few black- decided it was more work than it was worth. Lived with that for awhile. Then my brother/sister-in-law moved and I got their table, the same only not tile top so I sold mine with the half painted black chairs, (the KSL classifieds are great!) but kept two 'better' half sanded chairs,

(as I need 6 chairs). We have lived with this table for a long time with my half sanded trashy looking chairs!!
We all fit around it but with a new family member it is quite squishy. That's my story and I'm sticking to it, so without further ado this week I should be getting my new table that I ordered almost 3 weeks ago. So excited! It came with 6 chairs and then I bought the bench so we should easily be able to fit 9 people around the table and then there is room to squish others in, if needed. The greatest thing is the table leaf is a butterfly leaf so if one would like the table smaller you just pull it out, fold the leaf inside, close it up and whola- no trying to find somewhere to store the leaf and then trying to remember where it is when needed!

New Addition to the Bennett Family

No not prego, but we are adding a family member. Jared and I are soon to be legal guardians to his 13 year old cousin, Rachel. We have known it may happen for about 8 weeks but it happened all so fast last week to make it real! We are excited to have her in our home and the kids can't get enough of her. She stayed with us last weekend and the girls took her everywhere, like she was their own personal rag doll!
She will join us sometime in June when school is over.
The kids ask everyday if today is the day she is coming, it's like Christmas for them!
Now I need to get busy and rearrange my house but for tonight I will just go to bed!
I am tired and need some sleep.