I always thought Fall was my favorite season, but Spring is giving it a serious run for its money this year. I think having a horrible winter and 3 kids that want OUT might have something to do with it. The 10 minutes of silence we get while the girls are outside playing before they come running in to tattle-tale on each other are pure bliss - lol.
Yesterday truly was a perfect day. We slowly got moving in the morning, started working in the yard, went to Red Robin for lunch, and then leisurely perused the flowers at Home Depot. We came home with some geraniums, phlox, mandevilla, and a hosta (my first ever) and I got to work on planting them on the deck. We also cut the grass, fertilized the lawn, edged a few beds, and weeded some before I swept the deck, put out the umbrella and arranged my pretty little pots. I ran out to Kmart to look for some more cute Martha pots, but they didn't have much of a selection at our store yet. I might have to try another store this weekend.
I'm seriously into the container gardening thing this year. We've done it the past couple of years, but everything seems to die out by the time the summer heat comes. We are really terrible at keeping things watered and I don't think we've ever "fed" a plant - which Martha says is crucial to keeping them alive. I'm really going to work on them this year and hopefully add on to what we've started. It makes me SO happy to see life out there.
I was going to finish up some other layouts I had started, but these new pics I took this morning in the rain (with a jacket over my head!) were too pretty for me to pass up. I used one of my new Quick Fills (that comes with a paper template and sample layout idea that I followed here) plus some paper from my Easter Double Feature Kit and my White Out paper pack, as well as some ribbon from Gina's latest.
We also planted some rosemary and basil yesterday in some cute pots I won at Pokeno last year. Tom used some with dinner last night - how fun. We'd love to have a real garden someday. Someday when we have kids that can really help us with it. They were too busy playing to help me out yesterday and they still ended up covered in dirt and mud by the end of the day. Ah, to be a kid.
Speaking of the little people, here they are in my office on Saturday morning, while I finished a couple of things for the site sale...
They're watching Disney channel on the TV that's up in the corner. The life, I tell ya :)
