Happy Mother's Day!

I was just remembering my very first Mother's Day and what a wonderful day that was. 

 

  Now my precious baby is 11 years old becoming a young lady. 

I made lemon bars for Mother's Day dessert at the folks house.  They are mom's favorite.  I put some of my lemon balm leaves in the center for decoration.

Rich gave me a stunningly beautiful bouquet of roses.

My sweet girl picked out a balloon or me!

I made corsages for Mary, me, mom and Maura.  Red for a living mother and white for one that has passed away.

Out on our front step.  The years have gone by quickly.  It seems I have lived two life times.  One of my single years and two of raising our girl.  I hope you have a wonderful blessed Mother's Day!

Grandma and Grandpa's Cherry Tree

Mary is growing up so fast!   Instead of going to a studio this year for her 5th grade photos, I took them myself in front of Rich's folk's beautiful cherry tree.  She had so much fun.  I love her fun and joyful heart!

 

Pear Blossom Parade

It was perfect spring day for a parade.  We went with some friends to the pear blossom parade.  They leave about a mile from the down town and we had a great walk through the older residential area.  So many pretty flowers blooming and a few chickens it was great.  We set up our chairs by the old library park to watch. 

 

There was wonderful display of horses, fire engines, tractors, marching bands, dance troops and cute babies.  There was lots of candy being thrown to the crowd and balloons for the little kids.

 

Mary is smiling because the Harry & David float was throwing chocolate truffles in celebration of them getting an entry into the Guinesis's Book of World Records this year for making the largest cinnamon roll.

 

This adorable chicken coupe and chickens were in a yard on our walk home.  It gave us inspiration for our coupe when we get ready to build ours!

 

Easter 2018

Mary had so much fun decorating some Easter eggs this year.  She is such a wonderful artist and has so much fun doing it!

For her Easter basket this year I included a lot of gardening things like iris bulbs, flower seeds, gloves and a bulb planting tool.  She is so looking forward to having chickens this fall.  So I got her a book called "How to Speak Chicken"  It is a great book and she read through it twice.

I baked an carrot cake and Mary helped me decorate it.  We are grinding our own flour now, so we are experimenting with different kinds of flour like corn, pinto bean, and rice.  We have been using our home ground flour in our starter and it has really kicked it up a notch with more bubbling and more of that sour smell which means for wonderful probiotic activity.  I added some starter to this cake and it turned out so good.

Rich snapped a pic of Mary and I on Easter morning.  Mary looks really tall here because she has on some heels.  I think she is 5'3 or 5'4" now.

We all gathered at Rich's folks house.  So wonderful to have friends and family to share the meal!  We had roast lamb, brussel sprouts, scalloped potatoes and salad.

With carrot cake for dessert.

Mary got to hunt her decorated eggs.  She is growing up so fast but still enjoys egg hunt and really loves deviled eggs.

Her and her sweet grandma!

It was such a lovely day!  Dark blue sky and big puffy clouds!

Seeing the clouds makes me think of the Lord's return!  So thankful for this Easter Day and remembering all that Jesus has done and will do for us!!