Soccer and Weeding

Last weekend was a pretty busy one for Jeff and me. It started off with Jeff's soccer game. They were playing a team that they really wanted to beat. Thankfully they won by one point!

Then we decided to do some yard work. Our back yard is 1/2 grass and 1/2 natural area. Well, there were so many weeds that our natural area looked like our grass area. Not a good thing! So Jeff and I decided to weed the crazy amount of weeds in the nautral area before it got to the grass. I forgot to take a before picture, but here is a half-way picture:

As you can see-wayyyyyy too many weeds. This whole project took about 3 1/2 hours, and we still weren't finished. After we weeded Jeff sprayed some weed killer to get anything we missed and to stop anything from coming back. We were getting tired and the sun was going down. So one of my track-out projects is to finish the small patch of weeds that are left. While we were weeding, we found some interesting things in our yard:

Some pretty purple flowers

Some sort of plant

A cute little frog

A really neat centipede- If you gently shake it, it lets out a chemical to ward off predators. The neat thing about this centipede is that it smells like amaretto and cherries! I made Jeff smell it, I don't think he was too happy about this!

And here is the final product-10 bags of weeds. My goodness. We better keep that area sprayed so we don't ever have to do this again!

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Grandkids Make Life Grand

While perusing Pinterest one day I came across this really good idea: I thought to myself that both my mom and Jeff's mom would really like this! So the crafting began. First I painted a wood board the colors that both ladies wanted. My mom wanted yellow and purple and Jeff's mom wanted tan and red. Next I played around until I found the right size for the letters. Then I cut them out of vinyl on my handy-dandy Cricut: I got some contact paper and lifted up the vinyl letters: Then I lined the letters up on the wood and attached: This is just me making sure that all of the edges are pushed down: And viola! The words are finished! To finish I added a ribbon on the back, ribbon flowers, and small clothes pins to hang pictures with. The final touch was adding pictures of the grandkids. After making this Jeff and I decided that we really liked it...so I might be making something similar for ourselves!

Paddling through Brunswick Stew

Last weekend was quite an exciting one for Jeff and me. Ashley and Neil came up Friday and stayed at our house that night. We love having friends come over, especially when we don't get to see them very often! The next morning we headed up to the Hester family farm that's in Virginia. The Hester clan was having a get-together because a family friend was teaching how to make Brunswick Stew. Now, when I think of Brunswick Stew I immediately think of Smithfield's. Probably because that's the only place I've actually eaten some...yes-I'm not a southerner. When we arrived at the house I was a little surprised to see this: Brunswick Stew cooking outside in a 5 gallon pot that was being stirred by Uncle Mac with a boat paddle. Ok-it's not really a boat paddle, but it sure resembles one! This was the true southern way to make Brunswick Stew, I was told by the other man in the picture (Mr. George). Mr. George also told me that he had a 30 gallon pot to make ...

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving started off with a sister, husbands, and dog walk before we stuffed ourselves silly! A Riegel girl tradition started many years ago after watching Winnie the Pooh. Pooh and his friends play a game where they all put a stick in the river and see whose stick comes out on the other side first. We've called it Pooh sticks since we started playing. I won! Back at the parents house ready to eat: Naomi enjoyed her first Thanksgiving meal: After Naomi's nap we went to have Thanksgiving with Jeff's family: Naomi enjoyed playing will all of the kids And Uncle Nich: Brother time:

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