Spring has sprung

It is time for a little gloating from the Gardner family. We have seen a lot of blogs about the inches of snow our Utah/Idaho friends and family received in the past week. A couple days ago here in Arlington it was a beautiful 75 degrees with 15% humidity, it can't get any better than that. We spent the afternoon helping clean up around a stream near our apartment for a church service project. It was amazing outside and we luckily didn't get sun burnt, though we could have.

We have loved the Spring weather and the flowers that grow wild here. They are beautiful. Many of them I have only seen growing in gardens back in Utah/Idaho and the owners of those gardens seem to struggle to keep them going.

This is just an example of the fields of daffodils that we see all over the place as we drive down the road. There are also many bushes and trees with blossoms of every color.

These dainty flowers would have a hard time surviving in rugged Utah:

As I compare these two pictures it makes me think: the grass really is greener over here...hehe. But I still find this picture of the Utah landscape just as beautiful. I have noticed a lot of differences in the insects and creatures that are in this area. Yet, I wonder if I just notice them more now that I am pointing everything out to my curious toddler. Everything is so interesting to her and it gives me a wider perspective on the world around me. We have really enjoyed our past week outside and Lillie goes up to almost everything and goes WOW!!! We have spent a ton of time at the park. We also got out the bike the other day; we have a child seat for the back and Lillie loved her first bike ride with mom.

As for interesting creatures, this picture is from just outside our window. Lillie and I noticed this nest of webs a few weeks ago start growing and growing, I was a little worried we would get a huge spider infestation. Then, today I saw hundreds of little worms crawling through these webs. We looked them up and they are called webworms, good name for what they do. Their webs can cover whole trees sometimes and I am soooo glad they aren't spiders because we have about 5 of these nests in the tree next to our windows. Their pretty cool, eh?

Mike has a month left of classes and we are getting too anxious for him to be done so we can get out together and enjoy the beauty. His last final is May 22nd, and then we will be moving to our new place in Vienna the next day. We are looking forward to it. Until next time...