Every season I swear I’m going to dress like an adult instead of a t-shirt and yoga pants.  So far this summer, I’ve failed again.  At least sometimes I actually go to yoga in the yoga pants.

Yesterday I shed the yoga pants, got dressed like a grown-up and celebrated Miss Maeve’s graduation from pre-school.  Cap and gown, music, diplomas and cake.

(Liam is sitting in my lap waving to Maeve’s picture and saying, “Hi Maeve!”)

She clearly was enjoying the ceremony.

Kindy here we come!

Liam is still figuring out the pillow concept.  Apparently his tushy needed a soft pillow to sleep on?

(Now Liam sees his Wall-E quilt and is shouting, “WALL-E!!!)

And I’m working on a million projects and finishing none of them (thus the quiet blog). Hopefully that will change some next week.

If we can change a holiday and just make them (observed) so we can have a 3 day weekend, why not have an (observed) birthday for a little girl begging for a cupcake party at school?  Her birthday falls right in the middle of the break between preschool ending and her Kindy track starting so we surprised her today with cupcakes and a balloon and of course a tiara.

Liam liked his cupcake so much that he ate the paper wrapper too.  No, really he did.  Sean had to fish it out of his mouth (I was too busy taking a picture of him).  He eats the leaves on strawberries too.  Yum.

And afterwards, Maeve went back to being the teacher and reading everyone the afternoon book.

It’s way more challenging than I thought it was going to be to keep our yard presentable.  Between the lack of light, wet areas here and there, hills there and here … it has been quite the task.

When we moved here we were told there were deer.  Not knowing that there were more deer in our backyard than people in the entire city of Raleigh, I dug up a bunch of beautiful daylilies from our old home and brought them here when we moved.  When I planted them, I surrounded them with herbs in hopes of the herbs keeping the deer away from the daylilies just in case they got curious.  We are entering our fourth summer here and the deer have never touched a single herb.  They simply walk right past them.  The dayliles on the other hand have never bloomed.  The leaves come out every spring and right when they are about to get buds and blooms the deer eat them down to the ground.

You can see the hoof prints through the mulch.

The last remaining plant.  This entire area *was* full of dayliles a couple days ago.

At least we have the about-to-bloom lavendar.  I accidentally mowed over a sprig this morning.  It smelled fabulous!

Why can’t they eat the bamboo grass that has popped up everywhere?  Anyone know how to get rid of the stuff?  It’s a nightmare.

A look back at one of the flowers (a vintage photograph from way back in 2005) at the old house.  We could have cut the grass in the “yard” with a pair of scissors it was so small but I loved the flowers.

One day I’ll just give in to the 8,294,849 maple, oak, pine and birch seedlings that are taking over faster than the bamboo grass.  But funny thing … the deer eat the trees too.

And this concludes yet another post that has nothing to do with quilts.