Daddy's first attempt at pig tails

Okay, so Kaitlyn's hair is getting so long, that I couldn't help myself yesterday that I made my first attempt at pig tails :) Let's just say that I'm not very good at doing her hair right now. Luckily, she was smiling for all the pictures.

So, I decided to let mommy take a try :) She did a much better job!

I can't get over how prescious she is!

Words

You know what bugs me... the word ridiculous.

I was watching TV and a commercial came on talking about these HD sunglasses that are supposed to make it easy to read outside in the sunlight (how can you make a book look "HD"? That's another thing I don't understand). The commercial said something like this, "Tired of trying to read outside, wearing sunglasses but holding up reading glasses too? It's ridiculous...". The word ridiculous itself doesn't bug me, it's how people say it. It seems that SO many people say "RE-diculous". Why? There is no "RE" to it. The word ridiculous comes from the word ridicule. To ridicule something is to make fun of it. Maybe it's something annoying, so you would like to scoff at that particular item. Thus, you are ridiculing that item, and it is "ridiculous" or worthy of your "ridicule". On that happy note, please make sure to pronounce that word correctly, for my sanity's sake!

If you don't think that this post is ridiculous, feel free to comment.

Trees

So it's been about 2 months since I planted them, but I finally have some trees planted in my back yard. I took these pictures just after planting them. Since my drip system is not working right now, I have to water them every day. But it's so cool to see the result of all the hard work. I can see that they are growing already, and when I water them at night, they are much greener the next morning. It's a lot of fun.

I can't wait until we have lemons coming in on our lemon tree!

If I can only get my grass growing too!!!

This tree is called a "sissoo". It can get pretty big and will be a great shade tree.

This is our lemon tree! Still small, but it has already grown. I love the smell of citrus trees.

The flowers smell nice too!