Rock Garden

So when Mom came up to celebrate Haley's birthday, we ended up doing a bunch of gardening. I planted an herb garden and repotted a bunch of plants. She went out front to weed the "flower bed" (actually occupied by several bushes). As she was digging, she found a bunch of neat rocks, so she kept digging. She ended up digging up an enormous pile of cool rocks -- obviously someone's rock garden that had been eaten by the flower bed. So then we had to clean up all the rocks, flatten the bed, and put them back. It ended up being a *huge* project -- much bigger than just weeding the bed, but it's very neat now that it's done.


This is the same flower bed you saw in the background of Haley's green hair photo.


A bug's eye view of the neato rocks.


This is my favorite shot - you can see how many neat rocks and shells there are in just one little section of the rock garden :)

Haley's Birthday Celebrations

Well, we're more or less done with Haley's birthday celebrations. The weekend before her actual birthday, she had a slumber party.


The girls all painted their fingernails.


I've wanted to buy trick candles for Haley for years!



Then on her actual birthday, we colored her hair green (her choice) and she got to have cupcakes for her class. Here she's showing off her fancy hair and nails. (Note the flower bed behind her -- there'll be a quiz later!)


The next weekend Mom came up to celebrate with us!


She brought a really yummy cake from Vellutini's.

Then we had Haley's celebration with Dad and Judy. Naturally I forgot to bring our joint present, but we'll have a grand opening via video chat so they can watch her open her present :)