A Garden Experiment

I had a very nice Mother’s Day weekend this year. Andrew did ALL of the laundry in the house, which was terrific! He took care of all the kids’ needs and totally spoiled and pampered me. LOVE it! Why, can’t every day be Mother’s day? ;-) I guess it wouldn’t be as special then and I’d probably be pretty bored with not much to do. Notice, we have turned it into Mother’s Day WEEKEND instead of just DAY in household. I'll take that for now.

My mom and Dave came up for a visit too so we had a nice time visiting with them. We had a truly fantastic meal at Santorini’s. I’m not sure why I’m such a fan of Greek food. Maybe it’s because I don’t get it very often, maybe it’s just darn good. But Mmm mmm…LOVE IT! I actually made the reservation at the restaurant a couple months ago knowing they get filled up and I wanted to make sure we got in at the time we wanted. Quite fun too, it was prom night in Eden Prairie so we got to see all the girls in their pretty dresses. I think that was Ella and Lily’s favorite part of the meal.

On Sunday, Andrew and the girls and my mom worked on setting up our new garden in the backyard. The girls were really interested in planting something this year so we thought we’d pick a few things and see how they worked. Andrew got cement blocks and set them up. Then he and my mom turned the dirt over. Ella and Lily helped put the seeds in and water it. I’ll periodically update you on the progress of the garden. As of right now, we have a few things sprouting so I’ll have to take a new picture.

We planted cucumber, sweet corn and green beans in the actual garden bed. The girls each picked out four different types of flowers too. We started those out in little containers, but some of them didn’t germinate. We do have sunflowers coming up though and we’re going to plant those in with the cucumber. We also have some star vines and one other kind of flower coming up that we’ll plant out front (can't remember the name of it at the moment).

We had no idea what the garden was going to do this year so it’s a complete experiment. We’ll see what happens. Here’s a little slideshow of the garden creation:


We finished Sunday out by heading to Grandma Betty’s house for some ribs, cheesy potatoes, home-made cole slaw and fun. Ella had a great time playing go fish and crazy eights with everyone. It was a nice end to a nice weekend.

Oh, and here’s one picture of Lily being a “mommy”. Apparently, I wear my sunglasses pretty often that she thinks that's part of the Mommy ensemble.