Congrats Kel & Kev!

Baby Rosa was born May 29th at 8 pds 5ounces. 

Both Kel and Rosa are doing well! 

I can't wait to meet her! 

Updated Urn & Flowers

The BEFORE picture. The paint job it came with didn't like the winter.

Once I'd power washed it with the hose, it really showed the wear.

So out came the Rustoleum 2x coverage spray paint

It covered up all the white as well as the questionable paint job it came home with. But I can't complain too much since I got it in the clearance section of Michael's. Although that might explain the funky paint job....

Reese kept watch at a safe (and cool) distance by hanging out at the edge of the garage

After coat #2

looking good! pardon the garden items holding down the classy black trash bag :-)

Oh so much better!

I feel like the flowers POP! more now too :-)

The yellow Iris by the rock (maybe I should just refer to this area as the rock garden?) are now in full bloom!

I love my weed whacker!

The 'grass' by the driveway was getting way out of control, so I took out the weed whacker and hacked it down.

I also took care of some of the grass around the wood pile

and also around the composter

This needs to be cleared as it's the 'site' for the shed

Much better! Along the driveway after taking  out all the tall grass and weeds. I need to go back and pull out the taller  weeds and decide what little trees to keep and what to pull out. 

Already looking better!

So much grass and space between the driveway and the trees.  I can't wait to put in  flowers and some color!

I'm contemplating ground cover like flox that will cover the ground and give some color under the larger trees!

Cleared out most of the area where the shed will be. I stopped going back as there are larger  chunks of downed trees that need to be burned up in the up-coming bonfire/ yard clean-up.

the composter after clean-up

closer look at the shed site.

expanded the 'grass' out towards the neighbors.

cleaned up all the way out to driveway!

yay! driveway siting!

I cleaned up that area to be larger. This is the view looking back towards the house. SO much more yard for Reese to play in! 

The cleaned up edge of the driveway

I took the cleaned edge and went all the way down the driveway, creating a closed circle of what still needs to be done. 

But this way you can mow the yard and loop around down the driveway as well. 

Not done yet, but much better than before! I think I can clean-up what's left in 1 or 2 more weekends :-)

Memorial Day - 5k

co-workers and Matt hanging out before the race

and families!

Matt with Jordan. My co-worker Melissa's dog - he frequents the office as well and is friends with Reese!

He got soooo many pets and hello's before the race, during the race and after the race, it was crazy! Such a cute face, how can anyone resist? :)

We even found his almost double! 

both rescue dogs, both unknown mixed breeds

but so sweet and friendly!

After we finished the race and made it home again (I beat my best ever training time by 5 min!!) we feasted on a grilled dinner of burgers, the first corn of the summer, and some lovely dill pickles.

MMMM! black bean double burger with muenster cheese and lettuce and tomato

the fresh corn - which was grilled and then shucked afterwards - sidenote: TOTALLY easier to shuck corn after it's grilled than before!

Matt's double turkey burger with lettuce, tomato, sauerkraut, mustard, and ketchup.

Reese stayed home while we were at the race in Portsmouth, but he got  to race around the yard before dinner with Tucker from next door (Tucker is a terrier, also a rescue) so he was tuckered out - LOL!

All in all - a tiring but great day! Happy Memorial Day weekend!