My Little Worker Bee...

Our version of winter camping...

Discovery Museum with Emmett...

Taking a hike with his puggy...

Helping Pop Pop install the new dishwasher...

A Flower For You!

This is one of my very favorite pictures!

Taking after his daddy and momma's love of flowers.

Melting my heart!

Holiday Highlights

After all is said and all is done.

I am enjoying the quiet and reflecting.

By far my favorite Christmas so far.

One year old!

One year has passed! What??? How did that happen? It feels like yesterday I was walking around my house in labor. The beginning of last summer included a lot of waiting. Hoping today would be the day that my baby decided to join us. At last June 23,2008 he was ready. Our lives would never be the same. Everything from that point on would stop revolving around us and start to revolve around him. This picture is the quintessential moment when I think he started to feel that concept. All these people who care about him so much. Surrounding him, showering him with attention, love, and CAKE! His party was a beautiful day. A perfect celebration of his first year on this earth.

Our garden May 2009

I love hens and chicks, sedums and purple pansies!

Spring blooming native orchids and carnivorous plants full of buds!

Front yard: Our inground bog garden and lots of plants starting to grow

The beginning of the container gardening madness!

Basement grown veggies lined up, ready to be planted

Entrance to the back yard

I'm obsessed with chartreuse and purple!

another container...

blue bells and the native pinxterbloom azalea

april showers brought may flowers

sedum and pansy

The phlox coming up in our ice house container. A cool container we saved from being thrown away.

Our agave collection

A couple sunny and warm days and tons of rain and our garden is leaping from the ground! We couldn't be more excited! This is only the beginning...hope you enjoy!

Last week

Jason and Meade hanging out in the tree in Gramp's backyard, remembering all the wonderful times spent.

Jason and Meade on the Ferry

Meade sleeping in the car

Mommy helping Meade get his sea legs

This past week has been a hectic one. We did some traveling to and from Salisbury, MD (Gramp's hometown). Which includes a ferry ride and a bunch of driving. Total travel time...5 1/2 hours. Meade was such a good boy in the car. The ferry helped to break up all the driving and gave Meade an opportunity to get his sea legs. I thought I would share some pictures of our travels.

Gramps

Meade's great grandfather passed away this past week. It has been a sad, sad time for our family. We are so fortunate to have spent the time we did with him. To have learned what we learned from him. He was a great role model, a hard worker, a volunteer at hospice and a local thrift shop, an avid bird watcher, a gardener and loved more than anything to walk the family dogs. He was such a wonderful husband, dad, grandfather and great grandfather.

Meade really brightened his spirits during his final hours. We take comfort in knowing that. He lived to be 89 years old. But it still wasn't long enough. We miss you Gramps!