Golsons Visit

We were so excited to have company this week! Kristen and Phil Golson and their girls who live in Florida stopped by on their way to Wisconsin. Kristen and I worked at Northland together many years ago and have kept in touch. What fun to have their delightful family. Their twins will be 5 in August and little Erin is 3.

The girls loved the flowers as well as our neighborhood pool. They were well behaved, polite and so appreciative for everything. They so wanted to meet Essie the kitty, but as usual she was too shy to come out for so much company.

Kristen and I talked and talked. What a great friend she is! We were in each others' weddings. Although we don't see each other often, we always pick right up where we left off. Brian and Phil enjoyed getting reaquainted as well. Phil is on the music faculty at Clearwater and so he and Brian had a great time talking about dissertations and research!:) They are on a month long trip to various places for various reasons. What a wonderful encouragement and blessing they were to us. Thanks for coming, Kris & Phil!

Flowers = Happy Thoughts!

We have this wonderful lawn and garden shop right at the bottom of the hill at school called Holcomb Nursery. I had been meaning to stop for about the last two weeks of school to get my flowers. However, when the end of the day would come I would be exhausted and would drive on past. So last Saturday after I got my hair done, I stopped and had a wonderful time exploring. There is a lady named Susie who always helps me with fabulous ideas. She had me running all over the place putting colors and different arrangements together. I felt like I had a personal shopper at my disposal!

Anyway here are the things we came up with. You can see the porch on my side bar with the arrangements and hanging baskets. Just like any good fashion designer Susie taught me about combining colors and textures. She made me laugh as she reminded me that everything around the exterior of the house had to "go together." It sounded just like my friends at Talbots helping to coordinate an outfit! Everything must contribute to the "all- around" look! Anyway, I have had fun.

These Vincas are on the side of the house and have sun all day!!

This is a rosebush that the Mosley's who we bought our house from planted.

It is just starting to produced flowers!

These were some leftovers that I put in pots at the bottom of the rose bush in the back.

I'm back!

The last eight weeks of school are now only a blur! My mom sent me an email today encouraging me to update my blog now that things are settling down! So I took pictures of some of my flowers. I had so much fun over the weekend when I finally had time to work on them. I will spend the next few days catching up on the events of the last few weeks. But for now, I am so grateful we ended the year well and that summer vacation has arrived!