Last weekend the Phillips family got to travel down to “happy valley” to see cousin’s new and old, Grandma & Grandpa, and finally Aunt Cathy & Uncle Gabe. It was a ton of fun getting to hang with the ever growing PB&J crew. On Saturday Gabe, Grandpa, and I got the become the “decision makers” when the ladies went to…
I was nearly worried I had gone through all the effort of putting the plow on the tractor without it getting to see some serious snow. Boy was I wrong. This year March came in like a Lion and has thus far stayed a Lion. On Tuesday we got around 14 inches of the white stuff plus some sleet to…
Ever since I was 16 and Chris House let me drive his eye melting yellow wrangler I was hooked. As many of you know when I was in college I bought my first wrangler (Isabel) and cherished her dearly. Then when I moved into the big bad apple I had to sell my first love, cried a little, and held…
Today Kristi and I decided to step up our “gardening game” for our vegetables this year. Given our horrific failure on lettuce from last year we cut that from the line up and went heavy on the zucchini (to make Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread of course). All in all our total line up was: 6 zucchini 2 cucumber 4 italian…
The life of a home owner is never 100% restful. Now that is it above freezing temps its time to make the house look good. Lets see how far 6 yards of mulch takes us. I’m guessing we will need to order more.
Kristi’s and my arms have gotten stronger over the past 2 months, but nothing compares to how important the swing has been in giving both parents a quick breather. [sublimevideo src1=”http://www.njphillipsfamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Video-Jan-24-09-59-08Converted.mp4″ uid=”d2dab01a” id=”d2dab01a” width=”500″ height=”375″]
I’m constantly surprised by how different suburban living is compared to life in the city. Just another example is waking up to the scene below instead of garbage men or the crazy lady going through the recycling you’ve put out.