April showers bring May flowers

Hello peeps! Hope everyone is doing well. Joshua and I are doing great- loving life and loving the spring! It's been so nice. There's a nice even mix of rainy to sunny days. Pleasant mild temperatures ~from the mid 50's to the high 70's. Perfect weather for us. The green is back and it seems like every day is a new day! A newborn baby birdie is opening its eyes for the first time and quickly learning to chirp away! We have a nest right outside our bedroom window- must be Nightingales or Mockingbirds. They love to sing to us at night! :-) A new tree, bush or flower is in bloom while the early blooms are losing their petals and again rejuvenating into something new and beautiful. Spring really is a remarkable season. It makes me think a lot about my mom. I think she would especially love this time of year here and I wish I could share so many of these moments with her. Well I guess that is why I write this blog... I hope for this short time my mom and you feel like you're taking a quick trip back east to visit with the Sims ~  :)

 

Purple trees! 

 

Pink trees!

 

Geese

 

He was my buddy for an afternoon... hehe

 

Green leaves

 

Not a great pic... but wildflowers coming in here.

 

White trees!

 

Seafood shack on a rainy day

 

Rainy country road

 

My parking space view... 

 

Pink flowers just bloomed...

Last weekend we took a trip to this cute little restaurant called Pickity Place down in Mason, NH (40 mins SW of us). It was a nice relaxing drive on an overcast May day. I've been so anxious to make a trip to this spot as the quaint cottage and the rural surroundings were the inspiration for the illustrations in the book Little Red Riding Hood. It was such a neat place- all decorated in the theme of  the book- even featured Grandma the wolf... :) On site there were some lovely gardens, a gift shop and a greenhouse. The way it works is they prepare a 5 course meal, have 3 seatings a day and change their menu monthly. It was so earthy and fresh and FLAVORFUL! We enjoyed our May meal very much and will def be making a trip back!

 

Nutting Hill is where it all took place

  

 

Built in 1786- neat!

Why Grandma, what big eyes you have... yeah, this part was a bit creepy :)

 

The Gardens

 

I LOVE these weeping cherry trees... they are all over out here.

 

Cutest gift shop EVER

 

Back of the cottage

 

White daffodils

  

 

Dinner time!!!!! :-))

 

So I managed to get a pic of every course except the first course- the french onion dip. We were starved and it was DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I've never had such a refreshing and flavorful soup before in my life. It was amazing!

 

Mango orange tea

 

Yum salad

 

Yummy bread

 

Now this didn't look that great but man, it was fantastic!

 

Lemon mouse

 

He liked it :)

 

Me too, me too!

  

Perfect day

 

 

And the river runs through it...

 

Overcast skies

 

Skippin' rocks on the river by the railroad tracks...

 
Last but not least we've been wanting to get new iPhones forever! Well now that life's back to normal and we have stability again we were finally able to make the plunge! Woohoo! Check us out with our new gadgets. Oh, and we also said buh-bye to those CA area codes once and for all... :))

 

Hugs! xoxo