Weekend Update

What a great weekend!

Every year as soon as VBS is over, I say my summer begins.

Regular weeks.

Not fall into bed from exhaustion, get up and do it again weeks.

Time for yard work, painting and clean clothes!

Not dig to the bottom of the sock and underwear drawer hoping that there is still something clean,

actually having clean things in the drawer ready and waiting.

Even COOKING!

We got fresh chickens on Saturday and I roasted two of them Saturday afternoon.

Saturday AM was spent in the yard.

Cleaning out flower beds.

Lavender in full bloom, smells so good!

But this stuff...does anyone know what it is? 

It smells terrible, but is so pretty and is a great ground cover.

Love these lilies!

They really need separated though.

These are some of my favorites also.

And this rooster, that I think has just reached the right patina...

JWS commented that I need to give it a coat of paint.

How long has he known me?

These are at the end of our driveway.

Gracelyn calls them her castles.

Amazing what the eyes of a child sees.  I

I wish that they were not so close to the road, she would have a blast playing Barbie's in them.

Not sure why this is so washed out looking.

Camera setting?

Normally I have impatiens in these planters, but decided to try something different this year.

And this thing that I keep thinking probably needs trimmed, sure gives a lot of privacy to the porch.

More lilies.

And then on Sunday afternoon, I painted.

The girls took their dad to lunch,

I won't celebrate with my Dad until later.

He was in Michigan at the NASCAR race.

And more painting...

And more.

What a great, relaxing weekend.

Laughs of the weekend were provided by Shawnee.

First of all, on Friday night at church everyone kept commenting on how much Garren looks like

Shawnee's father in law.

And he does.

Remarkably.

Shawnee's comment?

"Yes and that is a little disturbing when I go to breast feed him."

Then yesterday, I get this text.

"Well it happened, I left them alone for less than two minutes and I come back and Garren has lip gloss on!"

That little boy has a rough road ahead with his Princess Sister!