A Spring to Remember :)

On the "Guess Who" family photo post, our winners were Carrie, Shi of Narnia, Maddie, and Kelsey! Congratulations--large families don't intimidate you.

(That, or you happen to know us really well....*eyes Shi, Maddie, and Kelsey sternly* ;)

Ahhhhh...it's been a great spring. :) I think back on last spring and see my vision crowded by hundreds of pounds of peas and a kindred measure of weeds. It was a good spring, but so busy with garden work that we had no time for anything else.
This year it's been one long, crazy, beautiful whirl of gaiety. Let me count the events...

Mid-April found me (Rachel) going off to the North Carolina mountains to the Maidens of Virtue retreat.

(Kudos to those who spot me in the mass. :)

We had a weekend or two of life's busyness and then the Wedding Marathon started. Daniel, Sarah, and I were down in NC with the Taylors/Hendersons 3 weekends in a row! :) The first weekend was a bridal shower for Anna Henderson-soon-to-be-Taylor. It was gobs of fun.

The Bride pinning the hat on her cowboy. :)

The second weekend was the music rehearsal, plus a movie-night for the girls! :) I was introduced to The Importance of Being Earnest and fell hopelessly in love with the dry wit of the story. :D (a review is forth-coming) I am now forever quoting it:

"Chins are worn very high at present!"

The third weekend was the wedding! The day began with all of us being unconscionably squished in the back seat. Honestly, the picture doesn't do it justice, beyond showing you how unbecoming the position of being squished is to me. I ended up on the front row of the back row, if that is possible. :P

BJ, Matthew, Me, and Abigail

It was a beautiful day with lots of pictures, cake, flowers, and photo-booths. The proper sort of wedding day.

When it was all over we were rather solomon-cross. Having to settle down to regular life after weeks on the lam. We were home last weekend and will be home this weekend, but the Wilson's Annual Memorial Day Picnic is this Monday! Don't tell anyone, but I think I'll make a pie to enter in the contest.  ;) *rushes off singing "Billy-Boy"*

"Can she bake a cherry pie Billy-boy, Billy-boy, can she bake a cherry pie charming Billy?"

It's been a marvelous spring (and the summer bodes to be this busy!) full of "ups and down, Mr. Clennam, ups and downs." ;) There have been high moments and low moments, beautiful days and stormy days, pure, bubbling happiness and cross-patch-draw-the-latch moods. But over all I think it's been a Spring worth remembering. :)