July in Review

Since, I have not posted the month of July. I will give you a quick review.

First of all our house (the inside) has walls! Very exciting news. We have started to work on the electrical, then its plumbing and drywall.

I dressed the kids up in a bathtub for the kiddie parade. We attended the 4th of July picnic and had a picnic at my mom and dad's. We attended the opening of Central Park in Manistique and watched Chad and James carve.

We got to spend a couple days at the beach which is always fun!

We picked radishes, and lettuce out of the garden and wild strawberries and blueberries. We also found a patch of pink wild roses, so beautiful.

Last weekend was the Denkins Family Reunion. Dustin and I planned most of it, so we are thankful it is over. We all had a great time. We ate some Mexican food and played the Denkins Olympic Games, which included the javelin throw with a feather, shot put with a balloon and Olympic ring toss.

Jenna is 15 months old today. Hard to believe! It seems like yesterday we were in the hospital with her.

I have been doing lots (ok, probably too much) research on products for our new house and green eco-friendly products for our business. I just came across a new type of drywall call Eco-Rock, sounds interesting but won't be out until the new year.

Interesting Thought

Personality and attitude are what carries us through life.

National Wildlife Federation

What's New Around Green Heart
Today it's raining so maybe I will catch up on some housework.
Dustin signed our property up with the National Wildlife Federation as a Certified Wildlife Habitat.
The house is coming along good too. The first coat of the stucco is almost complete. I spent yesterday scrapping and prepping the windows for stain. We are going to use raw linseed oil as the stain.
The kids are doing well and enjoyed a beautiful day outside yesterday.
Hopefully today Happy Earth Products will be able to accept credit cards.

Spring is finally on it's way!

We have made great improvements on the house since my last update. We have a beautiful concrete floor, cut in a diamond pattern. The outside of the base coat of stucco is also almost complete too!
The trees are just starting to get their leaves and we have been able to eat some fresh rhubarb and asparagus. Yummy! I can't wait until the garden is ready. I have only planted onions but plan on getting the rest in this next week.
Dustin finally got his tractor today. It is a John Deer 2020. We bought it to lift the dirt onto the roof and plow the driveway ( hopefully not the plowing part though for a couple months).
The kids are both doing great. Jenna is speaking her own little language and loves to pick rocks up in the driveway.
Tonight I made egg rolls and Chinese chicken salad for dinner.

Ohh Happy Day!

I did it! I graduated from college. According to some google research only 35% of the population has graduated with some degree from college. I put many long hours into studying with 2 kids, a husband, building a house, and starting MOMS Club. I look back and I don't know how I did it.
Jenna's 1st birthday was great as well. We had about 40 people attend the party. She is so funny. She was very excited to blow out her candles.
Last week Dustin was in Detroit for work. The kids and I survived. It was a nice break from cooking, but we missed Dustin. On Friday we had a family fun night for MOPS. It was nice Dustin was able to go with us. Saturday was graduation and we enjoyed lunch at H & H in Escanaba. Today, we spent the day outside riding 4 wheelers and had a cookout at James and Grace. Dustin and I then took Derek for a ride up north to look for fish.

It's Spring!

Some pictures we took tonight playing in the yard. Jenna's 1st pigtails.






What a beautiful day. Spring is such an amazing time. The frogs in the pond tonight, the baby cows, raking, ohhh all the things that remind me of spring.
Our trip to Las Vegas was really fun. It was beautiful out there. We went to three shows and loved them all. It was nice to have a break from everything at home and just relax.
Last weekend we went downstate for Jason and Leeanne's baby shower. We had a good time. I got to plan the games, I know you are all surprised.
Sunday is Jenna's 1st Birthday party. I feel I am not ready and have lots left to get ready. I know it will all come together.
We went to visit my great grandma colegrove last week. She is 94, and still lives alone. I am amazed at her strength. You should see how clean her house is.
I am also a little excited about graduation which is next week. So, thankful to be done.

I'm leaving on a jet plane....

Tomorrow we leave for Las Vegas. I am almost packed. Not only did I have to pack myself and Dustin for the trip, but I had to pack the kids to stay at James and Graces. I think they have 10 x's more stuff then mom and dad.
I am very excited for the trip. It will be nice to be in sunny weather, spend some time with my family, and alone with my husband.
The house is also making some progress. We have the heat tubes laid in the house and the garage doors up. The cement should be poured sometime this month.



We participated in Earth Hour on Saturday night.

Here is what the website has to say about Earth Hour.

Earth Hour, run by WWF, the conservation organization, is a global climate change initiative which calls on individuals and businesses around the world, to turn off their lights for one hour on Saturday March 29 2008 between 8 pm and 9pm.The aim of the campaign is to express that individual action on a mass scale can help change our planet for the better.The event itself will clearly demonstrate in participating cities, the connection between energy usage and climate change, showing that we as broader community can address the biggest threat our planet has ever faced.

Not, only did we turn our lights off but Dustin decided to turn the whole breaker off. Since we have electric heat in the cabin, it got pretty cold.

In other news
Mother Earth played an April fools joke on us and decided to dump wet, heavy, snow, thankfully it is melting today.

I am tired of dealing with a two years olds picky eating. The only thing I can say he likes is cheese!