Psalm 127:3-5

"Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!"
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts

Our First Garden


Today Kyle and I got up on this beautiful spring Saturday morning and headed downtown to check out a little gardening/seed store we had been told about. Our intention was to buy plants there then head to Home Depot for dirt (much cheaper!). Well, as we pulled up to Bunton's Seeds, we realized there was a new little "hole in the wall" organic gardening store that had opened across the street. We decided to check it out and quickly fell in love with it. We ended up buying our plants and seeds there and happily came home with a variety of herbs and veggies.

We thoroughly enjoyed planting our little garden together today. We are still in our apartment complex so we did a small raised bed that our managers built when they made their own garden. I posted pictures on facebook of the whole process, but I wanted to post the videos here.

We planted: peppers, onions, cucumbers, lettuce, cilantro, basil, parsley, and dill. 

Click here for the facebook pictures.





Our First Garden from Michelle Roland on Vimeo.


Gardening Video Continued from Michelle Roland on Vimeo.

Thunder... Our Style

Last Saturday was Thunder Over Louisville. For those of you who don't know what that is... it's how Louisville welcomes in the Derby Horse Races every year. It's a HUGE fireworks and air show that lasts from 3pm-9:30pm. People go out EARLY that morning to save seats for the big day. It'd held by the edge of the River and the fireworks are set off on the bride and on barges. If you want to check out pictures... here's the website. ThunderOverLouisville

Our plans were to drive out to meet our good friends, Jason and Jenny Coobs, and watch the show with them. However, when I got off work around 1:45, they called and said they had been driving around for almost 2 hours and could not find a parking spot. Soooo... We all decided to go to Cherokee Park and have our picnic there. Then, when it got dark, we went to the Seminary's lawn and watched the fireworks show from there. We were so grateful that we didn't have to deal with the thousands of people who were down by the waterfront!

Jason and Jenny
Robin and Nisa (friends from Jenny and Jason's church)
Kyle and Michelle
Jenny, Mrs. Coobs, and Jason
Michelle, Nisa, Jenny
The Happily Engaged Couple...

Mrs. Coobs and her sweet Puppy...
Someone was board while we were playing cards... haha!
Jason dealing the deck...
my sweet fiance...
puppy time!
umm... yeah... she liked this!
Here we are out at Southern waiting for the fireworks... looks like the guys were enjoying themselves... haha...
Yay for getting married in a little over a month!!! woo hoo!


All the girls...
All the guys...
My dear friend and bridesmaid...
All three couples...

Happy Easter!

Today we spent Easter Morning with our good friends, Jason and Jenny Coobs. They invited us to come over for lunch at their house after church. We had a blast together, like normal, just enjoying each others company.



After church we went to their apartment for an Easter feast.
We love to watch Kyle and Jason together... they always make us laugh!
Men in the kitchen... check it out!!! They were a great help in making lunch!
Jenny and I ... in our normal "every season of life" pose... haha... I love it!
Our guest for lunch was a bread bunny... isn't he cute????
Fresh from the oven... awww...
oooo... Kyle stealin' a kiss in the kitchen...
Jenny coring out the back of bread bunny. She put our amazing spinach artichoke dip in him.
"oh no!!!" "poor bread bunny!"
Aww... at last... our yummy appetizer!
Our delectable feast...
Wonderful friends... Wonderful Easter celebration!
Kyle wants an iphone SO much!!! Jason let Kyle play with his today...
Cutting the Easter cake.
Our beautiful hostess... Mrs. Jenny Coobs



Our day...

We've had a BIG day today... It started with me getting up at 4:30am and taking our good friends Jason and Jenny Coobs to the airport to fly home. Then, after sleeping some more, I went to my second interview for a job. I got the job (Praise the Lord!!!) and I start training on Monday. Woo hoo! It's for a chiropractor's office. I'm so excited!

Next, I met Kyle up and we signed the lease for our first apartment together! Yay!!! We were so excited!

Next we went to the Resale shop at Southern and looked for free furniture for our apartment. We didn't find any furniture but I found a fun vase and two parfait glasses for free.

Next, as we were driving to my house to study, we drove down an absolutely gorgeous street nearby. Check out the pictures... We just stopped our cars and walked up and down the street. It was so relaxing and fun!!! I'm glad my man enjoys doing things like this!


I love this picture!!! These blooms are SO pretty!!!

Aww... I love my "best buddy"!!! :-)

Next, we continued the drive to my house, got in and sat down to upload these pictures, when I got a phone call from Jenny saying that their flight had been delayed all day and now until tomorrow morning, so Kyle and I hopped back in my car and drove to the airport to pick them up. We had fun seeing them for a few minutes...

Arriving back at home, we made dinner. We made manwich and since I can't eat bread we made "manwich boats" with lettuce leaves.

Yum-o! It smells so good!

Seymour thinks so too... (look at that contented face!)

They were so good and just fun and summery!

Seymour thinks he should get a treat! Seriously, how can you turn that face down?

Once we ate we finally got to sit down and try to study (which means... upload these pictures! haha...) then up from the basement come Mrs. Vaughn and Emily... they had found a BLACK WIDOW IN THE BASEMENT!!! They had trapped it in a plastic bowl. We proceeded to pour alcohol on it to kill it, then we checked it out...


Drowned by drinking... hehehe...


Emily and I quickly got our cameras and were documenting it...

Kyle was being the man and handling the spider for us... having fun poking and proding it... hehe...

Kyle and Mrs. Vaughn taking a closer look...


hehe...

And... to end the day of taking pictures perfectly, I received a text message from my sister-in-law, with a picture of my oldest nephew, Keagan. Here's what the note said: "Can we make flap jacks when you come visit???" Talk about tearing my heart out and making me miss home!!!


He's holding a picture I took of him about a year ago when we were making pancakes together. *sniff, sniff* I love my little guys so much!!!

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