Anna and the backyard

Well, I got sick last week and it was no fun. I was congested, so it made my head hurt. I feel much better now, but I still have to blow my nose all the time. I'm just waiting for it to all go away.

So onto little miss Anna. Anna loves her sunglasses. She's so funny with them. She'll put them on and then push them up on her head, like an adult and just wears them. The other morning however, she put them on and kept them on while she at her breakfast. She's just too cool...

She also LOVES hats. She has about five or so that I keep in a drawer that she can access and loves to get them out and just put them on. I love this purple one. She put in on backwards herself! She was dancing around, so the picture is a little blurry.

Here, she has on one of Dan's hats.

Anna also likes to wear our clothes. She'll see something on the floor, pick it up and say on! on!

Here she has on Dan's work sweatshirt.

Garden/Backyard Update:

Almost two week ago, on Saturday, we made an all day work outside day. We got a lot done. Dan dug out two more tree stumps. Well, one of them wasn't actually a tree stump. We always thought it was kind of weird and wondered why it was in the backyard, like someone put it there on purpose. So Dan started digging and digging and digging and still hadn't reached the bottom. Finally, after 3 feet he did! Turns out it was an old phone pole. Why someone put it there, is a mystery to us.

Dan started digging...and digging...

Dan, hard at work digging.

He finally reached the bottom, THREE feet later!

Good 'ol phone pole.

We still need to get rid of it. We filled in the hole, but it's still there.

When it was in the ground, every once in a while I would sit Anna on it and she liked to sit on it. She saw it out of the ground and I told her it fell down. So now when she sees it, she says, down...down...

We expanded our garden. Dan decided to try planting straight in the ground, without doing a raised garden bed. We only have a few plants in there so far, but they seem to be doing well. Behind this makeshift garden (we're going to get some bricks and outline it with them, so it's not all ugly with old boards and stuff), there are about 8 corn plants growing in the ground. Corn is extremely hardy and is doing great! I'll have to get a closeup of them.

We also bought some lilac bushes and planted them against the back wall. I really, really wish we had done more work on the backyard last year, so we could be enjoying it more this year. But last year during the summer, we were painting and working on the inside of our house. One thing at a time, I guess. :)

We just need to get rid of those big, ugly tree stumps! They're not helping our yard look any better. :)