Chad and Brandon

Chad didn't get to make it here for Father's Day this year but he has had Brandon with him the past two weeks getting to spend some great quality time together.  Chad has taken him fishing, swimming, downtown at the Park and to the World's Fair park to play in all the fountains.  They were here in town last week and wanted me to meet them for lunch so we met at Chick-Fil-A and enjoyed spending time together.  I haven't seen Brandon in awhile and was amazed at how much he is grown, he is 11 years old now and I can tell he is going to be tall like his Dad = )  I told Chad I think he tends to favor me a lot *wink* 
Here we are at lunch, it was 98 degrees out and we were burning up...

And here's one of him at the park down town goofing off with his Dad

And the two of them on one of their fishing trips..
Love you boys!!!!

Happy Father's Day

I hope all the Dad's in your life had a great Father's Day.
We cooked out burgers and hot dogs on the grill with potato salad, baked beans and pie for desert, it was kind of a last minute thing so didn't plan to well for a dinner.  I didn't know if Dwight's kids were going to come over or take him out for lunch like they have the past few years so I couldn't tell Marci & Skeeter what our plans were until late Saturday afternoon when he found out that his kids weren't coming this year.  I called Marci and she wanted us to all get together and just cook out and hang out here at the house so we could be comfy and enjoy ourself better.  I did the grilling and Marci helped get everything ready while the boys hung out talking and everything was delicious!!!
Dwight has been wanting a new garden till for quite awhile now, the 'little' Mantis tiller he has had for fourteen years was just not quite getting the job done here on this two acres so I took him shopping on Saturday afternoon and he found the one he wanted at Home Depot.  It came a horrible thunderstorm while we were there so we had to wait about 20 minutes before we could load it up and bring it home.  Here he is trying it out for the first time, digging me up a new garden area for my day lilies and Angel trumpet trees = )  Another area for me to buy new flowers for!!!  *LOL*
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

New Patio and Grill

I finally got some pictures of my new grill that Dwight got me for Mother's Day this year and the patio we had poured the week before.  The patio sure makes this area look so much nicer outside and now that my roses have started blooming they really set it off!!! I started a new garden area to the left of the patio but the flowers haven't had much time to start growing very much and showing off.  I got the yellow knock out roses but not so sure I am liking them as much as the red ones, we'll see........
And here's a picture of the Hydrangea that Chad got me last year for Mother's Day, it is growing and blooming like crazy this year!!!!

Day Lilies

I have been wanting to go to a Day Lily farm for the past several years but wasn't able to find one nearby so kept forgetting about it. Mom got me loving day lilies years ago and she use to go to a plant farm about 60 miles from here to find hers, we always wanted to go together but never made the time to go and then when we did plan a trip we found out the farm had quit selling to the public. So Dwight got to looking for some locations of them that were within a days drive and found not one, but two that we could go nearby. I got so excited to find them so we headed out Sunday and went to Mike's Day lilies, well with over 400 varieties of them plus many other plants, trees and bushes I was in heaven = ) You just walk down isle after isle of the day lilies and tag what you want and they dig them up for you and have your bags ready when you're ready to check out. I love these because they are not the ordinary lilies you see everywhere, many of the ones he had there his father had started making his own breeds and still hadn't given them their official names yet. I found a beautiful dark orange one that hadn't been named yet and I told Mike I was going to name it Donna's Delight *LOL* He thought I was serious and began telling me I had to go to the official Day Lily site to get the name registered!!! We loaded up our goodies and Dwight found some snowball bushes, viburnum I believe he called them, brought them all home and spent the rest of the afternoon getting them planted in the ground. We started a new flower bed in the back yard for the lilies and it looks so good, but I do believe I am going to have to go back and get some more to fill in the bare spots = ) The temps were 101 and we were both soaked from sweating getting these new babies in the ground but looking at our new flower garden made it all worth it. Here are a few pics of some of the varieties I picked, can't wait to see them growing and spreading out next year. Thanks sweetie for taking me and finding this farm for me.


Aren't they gorgeous!!!