Misc Photos of our backyard

Here is the whole view!

My Lantanas:

Roses:

Garbear's Pumpkin Plants!!

Our Star Jasmine Vine - beautiful and smells wonderful!

The Strawberry Patch

We went picking strawberries today!!! How fun it was! Justin didn't want to go but he had fun after all! We picked almost 14 lbs of strawberries (OMG)!!! But I froze three huge bags!!! So Fresh Strawberries for Oatmeal and Margaritas and daiquiri's!!

Here is Justin in the Strawberry field!!

And here is Garrett....who by the way met a friend from the Asperger's Group!!! And he then came over to our house!!! It was wonderful!!! And they played together so well!!! It made my heart happy!!!

And lets not forget Mommy and Daddy (Gena and Jeffrey)! Here we are on a beautiful day! It was beautiful! It was 75F and a beautiful blue sky and a breeze!!! It was a Happy Day for the Johnson Family!!! Yeah!!!!!

P.S. Just and update on Garbear. He has not been playing with his bully friend. Unfortunately, we spoke to the parents after our unfortunate incident with him wanting to harm himself for over three weeks and going to the principal to see if anything else was going on in school. Then telling her about the beating incident and she wanting to know if it involved any of her students. Us telling her who and her taking action (KUDOS TO HER)!! Then making that child and others apologize, etc. Then calling the Mom...who by the way HATES us now. We even called her to let her and her husband know Garrett and I spent 8 hours in the hospital ER and possible Admittance into a psych ward because he has post traumatic stress and depression because of this incident, oh and by the way 9 months of abuse from her son (we didn't mention but talked to them about repeatedly). But they still won't speak to us. But Gar is going into immediate counselling and by the way that is almost two weeks later....because that is the soonest they could get us in with a "Fast Response" Team! Most it is 7 months or longer or not at all! But, again not playing with this friend his mental state seems to be 100 times better!!! Wish us luck!

My Puppies!!

Well I can never go without posting pics of my Labs!! Beautiufl Labs! I will not have two again, but I believe I will always have one with maybe a smaller breed!! But I love these boys just like my human boys!!

Mr. Manners the Yellow Boy!

Halo, my Choco Moose!!

My Husband

What a beautiful Man!! He works so hard at work then works so hard at home (to make me happy)!!! This is my little Garden he made just for me. I was willing to put it in the ground but he built this lovely Garden box that now has Squash, Silver Queen Sweet Corn, Jalapeno Peppers, Cayenne Peppers, Sweet Peppers, Tomatoes and Cherry Tomatoes!!!

The beginning:

The Final Product!!

Update on Gar's Apple Seeding

Here it is in all it's glory! It's just growing and thriving!!! Well have ourselves a little Apple Tree before we know it!!





And on that note here is my reader! Justin! He loves to read, read and read. Right now he's reading the second book of "A Wimpy Kid's Diary!" And because of this he asked me today if he could have his own Diary.

And then there is Gar and his "new" friend! Yeah!!!! It's a little girl name Julia who came from Hawaii. They are military also. She ended up in his first grade class too! The get along beautiful. And as you all know that means the world to ME and to Garbear too!!

And here is Garrett painting a 'Volcano' with paints and clay!