Our kitchen is finally finished... it looks pretty good.. I'll get photos posted later (after the mud room is done lol)

What a great day it was today. Our church had a baptism at 50 Point Conservation Area. We had our service first then walked down to the lake where the 10 candidates were baptized. I'll tell you one thing.. I wouldn't want to be in that lake.. too doggone cold for me!! There were a few shivers today too lol.
Here are a few of the pictures from today.






A few of the ice cubes.. I mean.. candidates, being baptized. Poor
Pastor Rick was in the water the whole time.







Some of the people in attendance.

Tonight the girls got babysitters & the 7 of us went out for dinner & a movie. We went to the Fool & Flagon. Great food!!! Even better company. We tried to get over for the early movie at 8 but they were sold out by then. We didn't have long to wait for the next time slot though. We saw Pirates of the Caribbean, World's End. Good movie, but I think the first one was still the best.






Here we all are at the Fool & Flagon.

I got a surprise delivery this afternoon.

Today is our 37th wedding anniversary. We met July 13, 1968 at my brother's wedding, & have been together ever since. We have had our ups & downs, (mostly ups) raised 3 children & have the privilege of seeing our 5 grandchildren often. Unfortunately we have a small group meeting tonight so we won't be able to do much today to celebrate, but we will do something special as soon as we have a spare moment. Hard to do when we are in the middle of redecorating & remodeling etc. However, no matter what we are doing or where we are, as long as we are together it's special.

Brianna's rose buds have opened up. beautiful blooms.









This is another of the perennials I have in my garden, but I can't remember what it is called. Anyone know?

In the past few days, things have bloomed in the garden. The buds on the catalpa trees have opened to reveal these lovely white flowers. Inside the flowers are purple stripes. The flowers will probably last about a week or two before dying off & forming long seed pods. I already have
a couple of new trees growing lol.. anyone want one?




This is the catalpa blossom

Zachary's catalpa tree is doing very well now. We weren't sure it was going to survive at first. We have 2 catalpa trees in our back yard. One has been in the garden for a few years. The other one, which we were given at the same time as the bigger one, was left in a pot for someone else to have. When they didn't take it after a year, we decided to put this dead looking twig in the ground & see what happens. Amazingly, it started to grow & we transplanted it when it was about 18" high to where it is now about 2 yrs ago. The result you can see at the right. It is already providing us with some great shade!





This is Brianna's rose bush. None of the buds have opened yet but the bush is loaded with them. I think we will have blooms in a day or two.











Although Sarah's rose bush is also a pink colour, it isn't quite the same shade. There aren't as many buds on this bush, but there are a couple that have opened already & they are beautiful.




This lovely mini rose bush is in Paige's honour. I was so pleased to see how well it is doing this spring. It is loaded with buds & a lot have opened already. A gorgeous addition to the garden. Red is my favourite colour. Of course I just HAD to have some red in my garden lol







Chloe's rose bush was the last one planted. I love how it brightens up the garden with it's sunny yellow colour.

Here is what the rest of my garden looks like... so far...




















Zachary & Sarah enjoyed playing in the yard... especially climbing on the deck railing. Don't fall into my garden!!