we spent pentecost sunday with our good family friends in our old church this morning. there was a baptism and a lunch following the service, so it was the perfect way to spend the morning.
when we returned home we spent the rest of the day doing what we love to do on gorgeous sunday afternoons...spend time in our yard! if we're not cooking out and/or riding bikes at our local beach, you're sure to find us in our yard. and the boys are sure to be with us, when there is water involved.
here they all are helping daddy in the vegetable garden. this picture is deceiving and weirds me out slightly. because rowan isn't nearly that tall, but i know that someday he will be that tall. or taller. he is actually standing on either a hay bale or a mound (our garden rows are big long mounds and the "valleys" are where we walk between them). thos are lupins in the foreground. the lupins went crazy this year. they're gorgeous up close.
our row of peonies, in front of the barn. i think i'm going to transplant some of them to other parts of the yard as these are not seen from the road, and we need more color in other parts of the yard.
after a gorgeous day with friends, and gardening in our favorite yard spots, it's nice to reap some early harvest: peonies for a deck vase (because of all the ants inside the buds, they don't come in the house!) and some homegrown lettuce to go with dinner.
and i can't leave a weekend post without photos of the boys. they love "faux-hawks" after they're showers. one of thse days, i'm moussing them up and taking them out for the day with real "fauxs" (an oxymoron - ha!). it's also obvious the birth order of these boys just based on these photos. the first-born, slightly reserved; the crazy "class-clown" middle child; and the sweet-baby third-born. just kidding, of course.