Time to Plant

The weekend after Mother's Day it was finally sunshiny and warm out. I refuse to plant my flowers every year until I can enjoy myself in shorts and a tank top and catch some rays. Dan gets jumpy every year and tries to pressure me to do it sooner; maybe one year he will learn.
This Saturday morning we were all up early and had a great breakfast and then at around 9am it was out the door and off to the green house to buy flowers. I didn't really have a very good plan together this year. The only item I knew that I would not leave without was a beautiful hanging basket. The place that we go to has the most beautiful baskets, although you will pay an arm and a leg for one, I had huge regrets all summer last year that I didn't splurge and buy one. We got to the place and got a cart and Katelynn and I went around picking flowers for around our trees and looked at the hanging baskets. Dan of course was on the hunt for vines yet again for our trellis; Junior was in tow and hopefully was enjoying all the bright colors. I think I could literally spend hours in this place looking and reading all the different flowers and how they grow. Dan started to rush me at the end and I hadn't had a good chance to determine what to put in my flower bed yet so I grabbed a couple of things and he paid (good man!) and off we were to have some fun in the sun in our back yard.
After Katelynn I planted the flowers around the trees and dug and cleaned out the flower bed I knew that I didn't get enough or exactly what I wanted and had more time to reflect on my flower bed. It was back to the green house we went; just her and I this time. I ended up finding another hanging basket that I liked better than the one I was rushed to pick and then picked up the rest of my flowers. Back at home we had a little picnic in the backyard and then it was time for Junior to take a nap. Dan and Katelynn ended up running to Ace Hardware for a few things and came home with a kiddie pool. Junior and Katelynn were pretty excited. It felt so good to spend the day outside and just enjoy our time.

Poor Dan, this will be his 3rd year trying to grow vines. Each year we try something different and they seem to do well, but don't come back the next year. The first year vines we put in were so damaged by hail they didn't do anything last year, but have a glimmer of hope of growing now after a year of recovery - time will tell.

Katelynn thinking she is going to hang from this little tree limb, she got the big "N-O" from me because daddy would have kicked her little behind!