Planting Flowers

Darren's grandfather passed away in Arizona. While he was away in the states, the girls and I had some fun times. The day you are viewing was Saturday. It started with my dad calling at 7:00 AM and offering to take us to McDonald's for a healthy breakfast! We had to be ready to go by 7:30...no small feat for all of us still being in bed. We made it. We went to McD's and then drove around town with my parents running errands. We were back by 9:30 and I was concerned because we had a lot of day left. So, that is when I decided we would go look for flowers. It really was the first nice day we had...so we headed up to near the bus station and bought Gerber Daisies, Roses, and Easter Lilies*. We then headed out near the world bus stadium to the "planting flower shop." There we picked up some Petunia's and some plants. The original plan was for us to come home and plant the plants together. However, the adjuma's had other plans. They decided they wanted to replant the flowers, so we did it there in their store and Kacy helped. Following that venture we drove to Subway got some lunch and had a picnic outside. When we got home we fixed our flowers. The girls also decorated the outside of the flower boxes.

The Gerber Daisy's were for me, the Roses were for our girls.

Kacy painting on our flower box.

Sara adding her touch to the flower boxes.

They enjoyed their art work and we ended up with a fun day and lots to tell Daddy about when he returned the next day.

*On a side note, Darren returned home after a week away on Sunday. We was just here a few hours when his allergies started acting up. He got really sick and was out of work for a day and miserable for several. My parents came over one night and we were talking about all the beautiful flowers. We were also talking about how the pollen gets all over the place from the Easter Lilies...it was about that time that we all got really quiet and started putting all the pieces together. 2 dozen Easter Lilies, Darren's allergies aggravated...needless to say my parents took the Easter Lilies home with them that day and Darren's allergies started improving immediately!