Easter/Spring

I love the spring. The smell in the air. The spring flowers. Easter. I still have not planted bulbs in the fall to come up in the spring. We have lived in our home for 5 years now and I still need to do it. I miss it every spring and regret that I didn't plant bulbs in the fall. I think I am going to buy some of those tulips in pots that I have been seeing everywhere when I go shopping. My question would be if I do plant them, do they come back every year or is it just the bulbs in the fall planted that come up every year. This may seem like a stupid question, but I honestly don't know,ha. I am assuming they would come up every year. I am going to try it anyway.

I bought some beautiful Holland Bulbs at a nursery a few years ago to plant at my daughter's grave and they came up the first year only. They were the most beautiful, biggest, colorful tulips I have ever seen. Come to find out the deer love tulips and eat them every year now before I even get a chance to see them bloom. Lucky for me, I have a picture of the tulips the first year they came up. I would recommend Holland Bulbs to anyone. You would not believe the difference in the size of these tulips.

Among other things to enjoy with spring coming in is our patio. We love our patio. We bought a patio heavy metal (600 lbs.) gazebo a couple of years ago for our patio and put really nice furniture inside and we just love to sit out on our patio now. We also have a very nice fire pit that we enjoy often in the evenings. We just recently bought bamboo blinds for the window screen areas for more privacy and it gave the gazebo a whole new look as well. I could live on my patio and usually do most of the time when the weather is nice.

This is my favorite time of year. I just love to plant flowers around the house and in pots. I never can wait for Memorial Weekend to get started. I wait so the frost scares are over. the first year we moved into our home I planted too early and kept having to go out and cover all the flowers up until the frost scares past. It was a pain in the butt! I will never do that again!

Easter is one of my favorite holidays along with The Fourth of July. I love the whole feel of these holidays. I hope everyone has a blessed Easter weekend. I love you all.

If my little girl was here I would spoil her for sure! I would love to see her running around in a beautiful ruffled dress. I picture this every year and just know she is running around in heaven looking for those easter eggs.
Holidays are a different feeling then most have for my husband and I since our baby girl is not with us. There is just that "void" that you feel more then other times of the year. We are bad about enjoying the holidays to the fullest. For us though, we just like to get away. We love our families, but we just sometimes need that time to get away and we don't want to face the holiday with the "void" we feel. So, we are away this weekend just enjoying each other and a rare weekend off that my husband gets. We have our dog Pascal with us and he just loves to go away with us. He loves going BYE BYE! Pascal just now had his 3rd birthday on March 25th. He is rotten as ever. He is our baby. We also have a cat Sheba that I could not live without. He came into our lives a few months before our dauther Faith died and I just know he was sent to us. Both of our pets were. I can't imagine our lives without them.

Many blessings to all my family and friends. We love you all bunches. Happy Easter. Enjoy your weekend!

Tom & Shellie Stephens