A Mother's Day In The Garden

Sounds like the title of a magazine article, doesn't it? Haha. My wish for Mother's Day was to spend a relaxing day, mostly at home, and then visit Schedel Gardens for a walk through their beautiful grounds and take some nice pictures. I am SO bad about ever doing professional pictures. I don't know why, but I just never do. In fact, my original plan for Sophia's birthday was to take her to Schedel's and just do my own little photo shoot. But in the end I decided against that until she's a little older (maybe this summer when she's walking) and thought Mother's Day would be a nice day to visit instead. The weather was just gorgeous! And my dear husband took 179 pictures (about 20 of each of the same thing 'cause he likes to "give me options" - LOL)... if you can believe that. The kids weren't super cooperative, but I didn't have a lot of expectations, so it was overall a very nice visit.

So I have LOTS of photos to share. But first, here are my Mother's Day cards from the kids that came home from our babysitter's house on Friday. Isn't that sweet?

Craig let me sleep in on Saturday and then brought me breakfast in bed. I did actually plan to make our dinner that evening, so Will and I worked on that together while Sophie was napping in the morning. Then following nap, we headed out to Schedel's. Oh my gosh... even without all the extravagant flowers that will be abundant as the season progresses, this place is just gorgeous. You can visit their website at: http://www.schedel-gardens.org/. They have a really nice new visitor's center and admissions office at the front of the property since the last time we were there. Inside they have rooms for meetings and tour groups and an educational video playing. And there's also a gorgeous balcony that overlooks some of the grounds.

Never will they both look AND smile at the same time. ;)

It really was not that cold out and Craig is dressed for a visit to the Arctic! LOL

A flashback from last year on Mother's Day because the picture that follows is sort of a similar pose.

Love Sophie's face here.

Inspecting the pine cones that will brought over to her.

Will, spinning.

So then we had dinner at home and enjoyed a beautiful evening. It was a very nice day, though I'm still feeling guilty for not celebrating at all with MY mother. Mom, I hope you know how very much I love you and how amazing I think you are. We'll celebrate our joint mommyhood together soon, okay?