Josie and the pussycats

Josie and I were having fun with the cats and their feather on a stick. These were taking on my cell phone so the quality may not be the greatest.

I love this pic

Kate :)

Some picures

Kate :)

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day! It was great. I am still not used to being the Mom on Mother's Day so when people would ask what I had planned I kinda give the blank look of "what?" It started out great, got to sleep in because Brian snatched up Josie as soon as she started to wake up. Sadly he forgot to tell Friday that I was supposed to sleep in and she decided I should be up with the group too. But I got more sleep than usual.

Then Brian made me breakfast and coffee and the three of us sat outside on our deck and enjoyed the weather. Brian had put together a Josie size picnic table the day before and she loves sitting at it.

Then Brian took Josie with him to go to the grocery store and run a few other errands leaving me home to work in my gardens for the WHOLE day. I got to spend the ENTIRE day outside setting up my gardens and putting up edging and planting seeds and plants and root cuttings. I dumped about 8 bags of dirt and just had a great time alone in my garden. I find gardening to be very relaxing for me. I love it. It lets me just think and be alone even if it is only in my own head.

Then Brian grilled up some stakes, steamed some artichokes and made homemade (my mom's recipe) Mac and Cheese. Now that is how you end a Mother's Day.

Easter

Sorry it has been awhile since I posted but life is always busy. The Grimes family had a great Easter. Josie was very excited by the art themed Easter basket she received from The Bunny and the big Minnie Mouse doll that was sitting next to it.

We spent the holiday at my parent's house. It was kinda weird not staying the Saturday night like the past years but since we are only 45 minutes away now it was easier to drive over and back. The Bullock Clan was there too so it was nice to have the whole family together. We were also celebrating Rebecca's 11th birthday. I can't believe she is 11 already, I remember when she was just a week old.

Since several members of the family, myself in particular, do not care for ham we had rib eye stakes for Easter dinner. They were wonderful! Great job grilling Dad!

Josie napped through the whole dinner. We ate around 3:00 but by 1:30 Josie was falling over tired. She had only slept about 20 mins in the car on the way over and so we put her down for a nap and she didn't get up until it was time for cake.

Speaking of cake, I got to make the bunny cake this year. It was my first year at making the bunny cake and I was worried it would not turn out well. But the finished product looked pretty good. It wasn't pretty under the frosting but it sure tasted good.

Oh I forgot to mention the surprise we found Easter morning. We found a half finished, giant birds nest in our grill!. We saw some straw and grass around the edge of the grill and I noticed some sticking out of the lid so we opened it up to find a big pile of nesting material. Thankfully it wasn't finished and there weren't any eggs. We evicted our avian squatters and left the lid up on the grill for a few days. But let me tell you those birds really want to live in the grill. They keep coming back despite what we do. I plugged the rotisserie hole they were using to get in with Styrofoam and they just picked that away and got back in. So it is back to open lid and lots of noise. Hope they get the point soon.

Step by Step

As I am sure you have all heard by now Josephine has taking her first set of real steps. We are so excited and we were able to catch it on video. I know everyone says that we are in for it now but I am excited about not having to lug her around all the time. I think I would rather run after her than carrying her everywhere. Here is the video clip of Jo walking.

To the Zoo!

On Saturday Josie and I went to the Baltimore Zoo with Danielle, Brad and Jackson. Brian was unable to come with us because he had some very important homework to complete. As a note, he graduates with his BA from the College of Notre Dame in May. We are all so proud of him. Back to the Zoo...On Saturday the day was cool and cloudy here in York. It had rained over night but had stopped before morning. We made the decision to go ahead and go to the Zoo thinking it would clear off like the weatherman said. Well once we got to the Zoo it had started to mist heavily, however there was hardly anyone there because of the rain. We got the kids out of the car, bundled them up and strapped them into the strollers and away we went.

We had a great time despite the rain. We got to see them feeding the Penguins

and the kids love seeing the Leopards, Cheetah and Zebras.

We also got to see the baby elephant that just turned one year old last weekend. He was having a great time playing with his mom.

This was Josie's first time to the Zoo and she loved it!

Jackson had a great time too. He loves "talking" to all the animals.

A good time was had by all. Hopefully next time Brian will be able to join us.