Being Green = Saving Money? New Lawn Mower

Hey Guys!

Our lawn mower broke this past week and lets face it, it was going to cost more to fix everything wrong with it than to just buy a new one. so thats what we did... 

We had been talking for a long time about buying a push reel mower. Lets just say I am in love.

  AB was unsure of the purchase bc he didn't know if it would work well or if I would actually help out. I was the first to try it and I immediately loved it... Shocker right AB could not believe I did the entire front yard but I did gladly. It was a totally new experience for me. I love it because I can mow while KT is playing and not have to worry about not hearing him. I can also now mow during nap time (if the weather is nice) and not worry about waking him up. It was so relaxing. Even with it having been my first time mowing I was able to put my brain into auto pilot mode and just veg out. It was exactly what I needed after my first Avon campaign. I had 20 orders!!! But more about that later. 

So with this purchase we will no longer need to purchase like $20 worth of gas every time we need to trim the grass. We also won't have to buy fuel filters, belts, oils and stabilizers, air filters, and spark plugs. We will have to replaces and/or sharpen the blades but that is only once a year and seeing as you are supposed to replace them that often on a motor mower that is no extra cost.

Once again Being green is saving me so much!!! 

I'll post again soon about our trip to Montana! 

Mykah Bri

Busy, busy, busy!!!

Hey guys!

We have been so unbelievably busy! Between all of our jobs, pets, small family trips, plants, and responsibilities we have basically been running a marathon to get it all done.

So first there was Avon. I was super duper excited to get started. It has kinda taken up quite a bit of time. There was way more interest there than I thought there would be. I only meant to order 10 books and I have ended up handing out almost 30! Crazy right? I have so many orders. Submitting them has been a chore. I never dreamed I would have $500.00 worth of products headed my way!

Then there is my new position at the church. It has taken up quite a bit of time too. There is quite a bit to being a Nursery Director. It took me 5 hours to deep clean the nursery. It wasn't disgusting or anything just super cluttered and it hadn't been deep cleaned in 4 years! Idk how you can call yourself a nursery director and not really clean things like ever. I guess thats just me though. I must have thrown away like 6 bags of trash! It was like the land of the lost items in there lol. I have decided the best way to stop this from happening again is to create a lost and found box. Pray for me as I learn to do this job the best that I can.

Sanitizing lots and lots of Legos. There were so many Legos. I could not believe it.

Baby side of the nursery after I cleaned. The carpets still need to be cleaned but it looks so much better.

The toddler/preschool side. Yay for clean toys!

Our bible class and snack area.

We have also planted a small garden. We went the straw bale method. It is working so far. I can't wait to make salsa with the tomatoes and jalapeño peppers! We also got cucumbers and zucchini. KT got to pick something to and he picked watermelon. I am also a little proud because we got all of this from a local green house. I will be reviewing how this works for us. So you better be ready for that lol. Here are some pictures of all KT's flowers. He actually helps take care of all of these.

We have beautiful roses this year!

I don't remember what these are but just look at that color!

These are so pretty.

But just look at this beauty!!! I have never seen one this color. It is my favorite of the year.

Can you tell we really like purple!

We went to the city to spend some time with my sister in law and kiddos last weekend. It was so fun. We went to a park in their neighborhood. The kiddos rode scooters. We also took them over to explore downtown. They had never been there before and we enjoyed being there for their first experience. On Mother's Day we went down to our favorite National Park. It was wonderful. We met my mother, sister, brother in law, brother, sister in law, two nephews and two nieces down there. It was the best way to spend Mother's Day. We also have lots of family functions to come this summer. Get ready to hear all about it.

KT loves him some watermelon.

Our little family! Praying that next summers pic will have another little one.

It was hard to keep KT out of this.

Talk to you guys soon.
Mykah Bri