Wandering around a favorite garden nursery, happy happy joy joy

I think I will let these pictures speak for themselves,

driving past tulip and daffodil fields to get here was a icing on the cake!

Tulips and Daffodils

Just some photos from Roozengaarde this April.

Kristi and I dropped in midweek at the height of the season, 

after a stop at Christianson's Garden and Nursery of course!

It was a little breezy, hahahaha

Garden Show Happiness

Ah, fun at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show with my sisternlaw Kristi! I am soooo glad she invited me to go again, cool stuff and lots of laughs.

I just love the fragrances from all the blooming going on!

 

Just a random sampling of goodies here.

Garden Nursery Fun

Winding down spring break with a trip to Woodinville, a quilt shop and a garden nursery with Cathie, which small town will be our next adventure outing?

A few pictures inside and out at Molbak's

Would love to have brought home a rhododendron named Del, probably of the King George family, smelled divine, large pale pink blossoms, loved it!  Saw another named Kristin, no fragrance, but made me think of my father-n-law, Marshall would buy his rhody's and azalea's by name, miss him! 

I have to add I enjoyed this week off spent with family and friends, catching up around the house, errands and appts put off too long, and birthday parties for the mom's.  It is also the last one with Kirstin at home, she will be able to live on campus next year thanks to a generous grant offered by the UW, still in major shock, relief and giddiness! I am so very proud of both my daughters, they are not perfect, but I am perfectly happy with them! (okay most of the time, well often, often enough!)

Easter weekend was hectic and fun.  We had a crafty treat day hosted by Keri on Saturday and we made a mess again too, dyeing eggs, icing cookies, gluing banners! Another great girls gathering, they always go too quickly. New plan, next time, not on a holiday weekend, and maybe at a different venue, will have to see when that time nears huh? Almost forgot to add my teenagers had egg hunts at home and at Grama Carole's house, Luke got a head start for probably the first time ever, or was that cheating? Butter Cookie Monster he is, so I sent the rest fo the cookies home with him, Kristi got her one cookie at least.  I ate the one our cat Oreo was licking on, no biggie, tasted great! This year I iced the chicks a pale yellow and the bunnies purple with a white icing blob for a cotton tail, should have taken a picture of them, next time! I Love that recipe out of the Susan Branch Christimas book and apparently so does Luke, Kristi told me today he ate 3 for breakfast the other day, kid after my own heart!

Michele has an awesome cutting machine, just add a glue stick and wahlah!

Yep, this one's Alaina's, what more can I say?

Baby Lambs at FlowerWorld

I think Kirstin and I were more excited about the animals at FlowerWorld today than all the flowers.  Ok, the baby lambs I read about in their email  is what got us in the car today, I admit it.

Flower World or a Wildlife Sanctuary?

Crazy Chicken Guy was so funny, and the baby lambs were super super cute,  but the best surprise I think was the Turtles in the Koi Pond in the nursery, they have such great colorings and markings when you get to see them up close.  The sign read, don't fill the pond too full or the turtles will escape, hah, they looked really happy there I think. We had a great time on our drive out to the country on a pretty spring day today.

A sunny day to visit the tulips

Oh this is one of my happy places: Christianson's Nursery

Inside and out and all around beautiful

Cathie and Lisa, childhood friends still having great laughs

Good thing these aren't poppies!

Not only did we see flowers, but got a bunch of yummies at the co-op and some fabric at the quilt shop and trinkets from the gift shop in Mt Vernon.  Weeeeeee!