Book + Planting Seeds

While looking through Marshall's books last week, I found this book that we'd never even read before. As soon as I saw it, I remembered some flower seeds I've been meaning to plant, and I knew I had a pot ready to use! 🌻🌷🌼 Last Spring, Marshall enjoyed helping me plant flowers, so I knew this would be an activity he would love. Sure enough, he did 😊

Now's the real test: we wait to see if anything actually grows! If not, no big deal. I know he'd love to see the flowers grow, but I know he loved planting the seeds just as much 😀

Planting Memories

Marshall learned about plants a couple weeks ago at daycare, so I figured he would enjoy helping me plant flowers the other day.  I didn't realize how much he would enjoy it (and how upset he would be when the dirt was put away 😂), or how much I would enjoy it myself. <--Mom, you read that right. haha.

This past week, I found planting flowers to be really relaxing.  I know, who am I?  lol.  Which then led me to wonder why it had to be something that could end up being really expensive that was relaxing to me. Ha!

But, this is also one of my new favorite memories: planting flowers with Marshall.  He loves helping pour the dirt into the pot, even though his cup barely has any in it and some ends up in the yard.  

Maple was close by...supervising.

Now to find more plants & pots! 

Flowers

After I posted the pictures of our garden earlier this week, I kept meaning to post pictures of some new flowers we bought, but kept forgetting!

So, here are our flowers that I have not yet killed.

Mom will probably appreciate this post the most, and since Mother's Day is tomorrow, it only seemed appropriate to post it this weekend! haha

Here's one flower pot on our back deck.

Since I took this picture, another pink and purple flower have each bloomed!

I had some of these kind of flowers last year, and I just think they're neat and different looking, so I had to buy some this year, too.

 

I just love how this flower has different petals all in one bloom!

 

And then this flower pot was a gift to me from one of our administrators for Administrative Professionals Day.

 

Several years ago, my mom made a flower arrangement in an old chair similar to this.  Last summer, I decided I'd attempt to make one, but I only got around to painting it, and never filled it with flowers.This year, I decided I really needed to. haha.

The reason I went with a red chair, is because I planned to only use red and white flowers in it, with all of the green leaves, stems, etc......

....anyone catching on yet?

Here is my CHRISTMAS FLOWER CHAIR!  haha :)

There ya go, Mom. You should be proud of all my flowers! haha.

Fun pictures!

Several months ago I ordered a set of Macro Lens filters.  I was SOOOOOO excited when they finally came in, but did I have time to play around with them? Not really.

When Abby and I got home for Easter weekend early Friday afternoon, I took the opportunity to go outside and play around with these filters annnnnd Manual focus.  Oh yes, did you know I'd been working on that for a while?  I started out taking pictures of Mom's flowers, but then I wanted to take some pictures of my ring (because I really hadn't taken "good" pictures of it!) and other jewelry as well.