My Little Flower Girl & Fun Weekend Plans

Mia and I planted flowers Monday night while Leila was at soccer practice and she was such a good little helper. She wore her little D*ora gloves and helped hand all my flowers to me and break up the soil with her little shovel. She could water plants all day long if I let her. She was cracking me up because she leaned over to smell the flowers and her nose kept getting deeper and deeper into the pot, almost into the dirt. Of course, I had to run and grab my camera. She just keeps me laughing all day long. She is such a riot. I am amazed at how, at age 3, she has this impeccable comedic timing. (At least in these Mama's eyes.) If she grows up and does stand-up, it would not surprise me one bit. lol

I planted lots of these. I have high hopes to have fresh flowers in my kitchen all summer long. (I have those same high hopes every year and it never happens.)

Oh, how I love this girl!!

I'm headed up north tomorrow for Debbie's photography workshop in Ann Arbor. I am SO excited to meet Debbie, Steffie, Gail and Colleen, and it looks like there will be many other great ladies as well. Plus, a whole weekend of photography - oh my word!! Unfortunately, I signed up before we got Leila's soccer schedule and I will be missing four tournament games. :( Her team placed first in the last tournament, so I'm really sorry to miss her play. She has really made great improvements this spring and I know I'm going to miss some of her "sick" moves, as her coach calls them. I told Nolan he needs to text me with the play-by-play and video tape as much as he can, but I know there will be plenty more tournaments in my future that I'll be sure not to miss.

I'm also excited that I got a new toy to try out this weekend. I stopped by the camera store during my little shopping spree last weekend and the Canon reps just happened to be there. Oh boy, am I in trouble when the Canon reps are there!! I got myself a pretty red ring and let's just say I won't be quitting my day job anytime soon with this super-expensive hobby. I'm going to take it out for a little test drive this weekend to make sure I like it, but so far, so good. The pink flower in this post is SOOC (straight out of camera) and the other pictures are pretty darn close. I am really looking forward to learning tons from the Pixel Fairy Princess herself and the other ladies this weekend! I hope you all have fun weekend plans!