More updates from outside our home...

So I have literally been kicked straight in the face by allergies in the last week. I wake up each morning and immediately sneeze until my nose bleeds. This morning, for example, I counted 17 sneezes in a 5-10 minute window before I finally gave up and got in the shower to try and wash whatever was on me off. And then it stormed and the rain helped wash some of it away too- how cool is this pic of the rainbow DIRECTLY behind our house?

Anyways, there have been a few updates in and around our house that I thought I'd share. Everything is so pretty and blooming outside (even though it's killing me). Below are some pix of these weird hangy-vine-grape-looking flowers.

Of course here are some more updates of my first blooming tree (cherry tree) that got gorgeous flowers all over it. They have since fallen off and only lasted like 5-7 days which sort of disappointed me. I was hoping they'd stick around for at least 2 weeks...

Here is a pick of our FINALLY bloomed tulips. These have been budding out of the ground for over 2 weeks. I thought they'd never bloom! And apparently only half of them bloomed... My mom said that is something tulips do- even though they come back every year, they don't always bloom. Well then why come back??!!!

And here is what I did today. Almost suicidal by staying outside long enough to do it. But our yard was starting to look ROUGH. It's rained every day it feels like for two weeks now, so everything has grown two feet in that same span of time. We filled three bags of pulled out weeds! I just wish I had taken pix of the "before" so you could appresh how bad it was! PS. Look at how good my hydrangeas are coming back! FINALLY!

Oh and apparently spring time makes the boys a little rambunctious and excited to be outside!