Living in Georgia

 I hope you all had a wonderful Easter holiday.  As usual, I waited until the last minute (9:30p Saturday night to be exact) to color eggs with Jack.  But they got done and the Easter Bunny hid them and left a little basket for the boys.  Once they found their baskets they dove right in - Ethan found the book right away and has been carrying it around reading it ever since.  Look at those ragamuffins!  My boys love their animal friends and each got another to add to their collection.  Darth Maul candy toy?  Yes please!  Oh, and Darth Vader?  Yes, yes, yes!  Getting their egg hunt on, before more rain comes.  Success was had by all.  My little Easter Eggs!!    Jason and I managed to get a little gardening done in between rain drops.  We loved getting the new steps put in but knew it needed some color.  Between the two of us, we got ...

 Ever since we planted our fruit trees and bushes we've been anxious to have a better way to access them than just climbing up the hill, so this week we had our original stone/landscaping company come back and add two additional sets of steps. We were so excited to see this truck show up!  Here's the first set of steps.  A view of the first set from the bottom of the yard.  We added a little stepping path from the patio over to the steps and the second tier of the hill where the trees are that we need access to.  The boys are loving jumping along the path.  Here is the second set of steps going in.  This is the stepping path with the river rock all around it to give it more definition.  Another view.  And another.  Here is the completed second set of steps.  Here is the original set of steps on the side of the house leading up to the second set of steps up to the tier of fruit trees....

 These photos are from a trip to the zoo we took awhile back.  The boys loved the petting zoo - especially Ethan.  I just wanted to take a minute to express my gratitude for the special need preschool that is offered to Ethan and how far he has come since starting at age three.  This year started out a bit rocky but I attribute it to his starting at a new school with a new teacher and new therapists after a year and a half of the same ones.  But since he's settled in, he's improved greatly.  Just yesterday we had the best conversation.  I got him off the bus and asked if he had a good day and he answered yes, as he always does.  Then I asked him what did you do today and he responded with puppet.  I didn't think anything of it until I opened up his backpack and pulled out puppets that he had made.  My smile was enormous because it was truly one of the only times that he gave me an appropriate response to a question.  ...