Bring on the May Flowers

It rained and rained and rained last week.  Oh my goodness, rainy days are not good for a primary grade school teacher.  It means NO time away from the darlings, not one.  Indoor recess = wanting to pull my hair out, God love 'em.  We made the best of it here at the homestead though.  Lots and lots of weeding took place in the past week.  Evangeline helped me weed the city garden with the garden club and then helped some more at home.  She's gotten pretty good at it.  Playing in the mud is a lot of fun, of course.  She also very much enjoyed walking in the drizzle with her umbrella.  Daddy even joined us for an umbrella walk after she begged him and said "I won't have any fun unless you go." Hmmm, that line never worked for me...

When I picked up Evangeline from Ammie's house last week she was all excited because she had a new pet!  They found a turtle in Peggy's yard and brought it in to keep until we could release it into our woods after school. Evangeline named the turtle Rudy. We tried to take a picture of her and her pet to show Daddy before we let him go.  It was a pretty funny because the turtle was off to the races the second we set him down.  (I thought turtles were supposed to be slow.)  As we released him back into the wild Evangeline stood watching him calling out "bye pet!".  I'm sure he will be much happier in his new home rather than taking his chances in the yard with Lucca and Zoe.

So long, little buddy.

The rain let up long enough for me, Peggy and Evangeline to go to Barkley's Greenhouse on Friday right after school.  I love this place.  It's so pretty and it's so much fun to wander around in their green houses and beautiful gardens.

We picked out lots of beautiful things for our yard. 

One of my very favorite pictures of Evangeline was taken in this exact place about this time last year.  I wanted to take another picture of her in the same place so I could compare how much she has changed in the course of a year....she, however, was not on board with my plan.