Mother's Day Weekend

We had a jam-packed, busy, SUPER-FUN weekend!  It started on Saturday with all 3 of our kids in different things.  Madie left for dance at 7:45, Noah left for his sectional track meet at 8:30, then we took Livie to her last soccer game at 10:30.  

Livie has had the best time playing soccer.  Sadly, her coach's dad has been sick, so the last 4 weeks had their practices cancelled, as well as 2 games, so it wasn't as long of a season as we had hoped.  But, she had a really fun time at her game yesterday.  She was so hot and sweaty by the time we left, she said she was going to pass out!  She ran her heart out!!  We bought her a frostie to celebrate. :-)

After her game, we stopped and picked up Madie before heading over to Noah's meet.  The girls run first and with 8 teams competing, the boys didn't even start until 1pm when we got there.  He was really grumpy, because he was bored to death, laying around in the hot sun.  We brought chairs and a blanket and food for him (and us), then he was much happier.  It wasn't hot temperature-wise, but there was no wind and no clouds, so the sun really beat down on us.  It was a little tiring, I'm not gonna lie.  It made me totally understand why he was so grumpy when we got there.  He had been out in it for 4 HOURS before we got there.  

Here he is lining up with his relay team and all the other teams.  

He had a rough time running that day.  After all those hours in the sun, and later what we found out was a blood sugar of nearly 400!, he was pretty exhausted and feeling worn out.  Just glad he stuck with it.  Here he is running in the relay. :-)  He took up track to build up his endurance and I've been so proud of him for sticking with it.

When we got home around 4pm (yes, that late!), we were all exhausted and tired.  So, when Pete's parents came and just wanted to hang out in the house, we welcomed that!  It was nice to just relax in the house together, especially since the heat went away and the temps turned into absolute perfection!  We had the windows open and it was wonderful.  I bought a fire pit on Friday, when I was out shopping.  We had talked about getting one for a while, so I found one I really liked for like $80, so we decided to fire it up for the first time with Marc and Sue.

They had to leave before we roasted the marshmallows, but it was a lovely visit.  Really glad they were able to stop by for a few hours that evening.

After they left, we roasted marshmallows and sat in our chairs and enjoyed the beautiful evening we had.  It was a lot of fun and so relaxing after such a busy, busy day.

Today, after church, we went out to eat then headed to Farm and Fleet and got our stuff to make up our garden.  I saw on Pinterest this cute idea of using cow troughs to create a veggie garden.  We have a spot on the south side of our house that doesn't have any plants in it and I thought that would be a great way to celebrate Mother's Day!  So we bought 3 barrell-shaped troughs, a whole lot of dirt and some veggies/plants.

Livie decided to wear Madie's garden gloves.  They barely fit her, because they fit Madie when she was 2! ;-)  You can tell by her face that she's sad that they are too small for her now.

Noah, the ever-growing boy, was helping his dad carry the bags of dirt and handling the heavy labor, just like boys should do...if you ask me.

Pete made space in the rocks for our planters and they all filled them with dirt.  Livie was wearing her yeti coat and her Darth Vadar mask, because she saw a bee.  It was her bee protection.

We planted strawberries in one.

We planted tomatoes and cherry tomatoes in another.

Then planted jalapeno, habanero, and onions in the last one.

Pete trimmed back our raspberry bush - which I hope he didn't prune too much!!

And, our blueberry bush is looking great after just planting it last year.  I love the idea of having fresh fruits and veggies this year!!

Then Pete took this picture of me and the kids.  Tater blinked, which we thought was so cute.  I love these guys!!

Since Tater blinked, I took this other picture of him.  He was looking right at me, because Livie was holding marshmallows over my head. ;-)

This is what our planters look like.  Great, aren't they?!    Can't wait until they produce some yummy veggies for us.  It was a great way to end our Mother's Day weekend. :-)