Yearly Landscape Flowers & Yard Art

Teresa and I headed to Lowry City on Thursday where my friend from high school has a daughter who owns a greenhouse.

Most of these flowers are mine but Teresa did purchase a few.

It's not hard putting out flowers when you just stick them in your favorite pieces of yard art.

There's my flowering bird bath which this year I decided instead of filling the bowl with water which gets a little murky during the hot summer days, I would put in a flowering plant. Also my bicycle, chairs and stone bench with a small watering can.

Let's not forget the back yard where I hang my hummingbird feeder. I actually saw a hummingbird right after I hung the feeder but hummingbirds are way too fast to try and grab a picture.

My newest piece this year is Fiona the flamingo. As soon as those grassy plants get a little bigger, she won't look so bad standing in front of the transformer.

Food Truck Fund Raiser and Pre-K Graduation

What a hectic evening.

It started with a food truck fund raiser for Violet and Lincoln's school. Violet's 5th grade class had a booth selling snacks which she had to work for the first half hour. While Violet was working, I stood in line at the food truck to get her some dinner which took over a hour to get. Then I had to get Lincoln in to the book fair so he could spend his money. All the while I'm trying to get out of there to make it to Hazel's graduation. Hurrying Lincoln is not the easiest thing to do. He couldn't make up his mind and finally decided I needed to loan him a few dollars! Typical Lincoln.

Then we rushed off to the SonShine Preschool barely making it into the door before Melissa had a heart attack. As usual, they were running a bit behind so we were in our seats before the procession starteds. There were 4 Pre-K classes and each class sang a song.

As each child walked across the stage, they said what they wanted to be when they grew up and took a flower to the teacher. Hazel wanted to be a doctor. They also received an award. Hazel won the award for being the Ray of Sunshine at school. It wasn't easy getting pictures of the kids in their caps and gowns because right after the program the teachers took the kids back to their classrooms to change.

Melissa is always prepared to get a picture of almost every aspect of an event.

Even a quick one of me in the parking lot while walking to my car.

Congratulations Hazel! Now you're off to kindergarten.

Another Birthday Party

To round off the month of April birthdays, I went to my uncle's 90th birthday party.

While Uncle Mickey said he knew who I was (he has memory issues) but then he said he knew who everyone was.

But I did get to see my cousins from my Mom's sister's side of the family. It was great catching up. 

Lincoln Plays at Arrowhead

I didn't know flag football was such an up and coming spectator sport.

Lincoln's team played a scrimmage game at Arrowhead Stadium. Now that's a classy place to play a flag football game.

Violet Volleyball and Lincoln Flag Football

I thought my days of attending multiple sporting events was done when my kids graduated from high school.

Violet is following in her mother's footsteps and plays volleyball. She's actually really good at it.

After the second day of her tournament, we hurried off to the football fields to watch Lincoln's flag football game. He mostly plays defense but also plays a little offense and is the center. Look out Jason Kelce!

Then it was back to the volleyball courts to finish the tournament. Violet's team didn't win and it was a long 3 day tournament. If she keeps up with the sport, I'm pretty sure she'll be even better than her mother. Sorry Mis!

Teresa's Birthday

We had a little Cains chicken dinner with the Taylors for Teresa's birthday but what she really wanted was to go to Ameristar Casino and have their prime rib Wednesday special.

The prime rib wasn't the best (sure is a good thing the casino paid for it) and we didn't have much luck at the slot machines. But Teresa got to celebrate her birthday the way she wanted. Happy Birthday Teresa! 

Orchid Recovery

I have lots of plants and do very well with them but I've never been able to keep an orchid alive. I think it was last Mother's Day, Michael gave me a beautiful orchid.

After a few weeks with me, the orchid began to die off. The leaves were still green but the vines had turned a very light green. I was tempted to just throw it away. Then my nail tech told me I needed to water it from the bottom. Soon dark green vines began to grow and the orchid started budding.

Now it looks like this. Either the orchid likes the way I water it and sitting in the office window (which faces south) or I've finally figured out orchids.