Mother's Day

Both Clara and Hannah were old enough to attend the Ladies Tea at our old church this spring.  It was Mother's Day weekend, and was a great way to enjoy some time with my older girls!  There is a hat contest each year, and this year Clara started planning early on what she wanted to do with her hat!  The theme of the Tea was "His eye is on the Sparrow" and she thought of a creative, cute way to make a hat with that theme, picking moss from our yard for a bird's nest and clipping a bird onto her hat and decorating with silk flowers.  She was so excited to win "Most Creative Hat" for her age group!

 We kept our Mother's Day tradition of breakfast out with Joe's mom and then headed to the Flower World nursery to get plants for the garden and flowers for our deck.  We ran into this huge dog and had to take a picture with Eliza because they were the same height!!

 The kids have so much fun picking out our plants and always talk Grandma into buying a statue for our garden....this time, it was a 100 lb dog!

 They always enjoy seeing the farm animals and trying to pet all the ones they can get their hands on!

 Grandma helped the girls plant the whole garden with Daddy, while I got to enjoy a nice nap with Isaiah :)

 Isaiah woke up in time to help with the last few plants...

 And just a few cute pictures of this boy.....he has started playing with the baby dolls with Eliza and is such a good "big brother" to his dolls.  His favorite doll sleeps in a little bed on his bed, and he named him "Caco"