My Weekend

This weekend was pretty good. I did suffer a HUGE disappointment, though, when I finally got ahold of the woman from Craigslist who was selling all of the maternity clothes, as she had sold out of all of the dresses by the time I reached her, which is what I was most interested in. I guess Craigslist is more popular than I thought it was - although Kevin thinks that it is possible that just one person bought all the dresses, as I would have been likely to do the same.

We met up with our friends Carrie and Shawn on Saturday night to watch the NCAA Final Four, and I am happy to report that OSU is going to the championship game tonight. I, however, won't be watching, as it doesn't start until close to 9:30 PM!! I don't know why the sports people keep pushing game times further and further back. Oh well, at least my brackets are still looking okay, as I have OSU winning it all!

Part of the reason that we met up with Carrie and Shawn was to pick up a bucketfull of iris plants that Carrie had dug out of her garden to put in hydrangeas and some irises from her Great-Grandmother. We got the bucket, and there were about 40 plants, which we put into our garden yesterday. Most of them had started to sprout in the bucket already, so I am hopeful that they will still bloom this summer! Carrie says that they are purple.

We did some other gardening this weekend. Kevin had ordered some trees from the National Arbor Day Foundation this winter, and the first shipment arrived on Friday. Needless to say, they weren't exactly what he was expecting. They are pretty much twigs!! I have been taking pictures of them, and I plan on posting a "tree journal" entry in the near future. I'm sure you will join me in laughing when you see what sorry excuses for trees these are!

I am also sorry to report that our big, beautiful butterfly bush is dead. I had trimmed it at the end of the summer, and I think that, along with the grubs we found on its roots, did it in over the winter. But, the good news is that Kevin didn't like where it was planted, as it was planted too close to our deck. (Many of the plants at our house are too close to something; the previous owners never seemed to take into account the fact that the plants would GROW and get bigger when they planted them.) The really good news is that Kevin is going to buy me two more, and we are going to plant them on the other side of our deck, so I will still be able to enjoy butterflies this summer!

I also think that the wine and roses bush that Kevin hacked mercilessly two summers ago when he first got his power trimmer is finally dead. It struggled all of last summer, and it doesn't seem to have any life in it yet this year. We'll probably check its vitals soon, and if it is dead, we are going to put a lilac bush in its place, so that we will have one on both sides of our back yard. (The existing lilac bush is probably the only plant that wasn't planted too close to the fence. The wine and roses bush is WAY too close to the fence, and it was overgrown and blocking the utlity access thing that it was probably planted to hide.)

Other than that, we went to church on Sunday and spent some time with my family. My brother, Chris, is going to be heading to Florida on Friday, and he and Jenn will start looking for apartments. He also has a couple of job interviews. Then, he'll probably come back up for the rest of his stuff, and then officially move to Florida. I'm a little sad that he is moving so far away right before my baby is born, but he probably hasn't even thought of that. I am happy that he and Jenn are going to be together, though. Maybe they will come back to Ohio in July for our cousin's wedding, and get to see the baby then. He and I haven't really been close since we were elementary aged, and I guess now we won't be close for awhile. They are planning to move back to Ohio in a few years time, though, and I think I'd really like that. I'm really glad that they are planning their wedding to be in Columbus, so at least they'll be back for that! Plus, a trip to Florida to visit them once they get settled wouldn't be all bad.