The house is back to normal

We spent much of Memorial Day weekend moving rooms around. 

 Our bedroom and bathroom are now how we want them

 We decided to hold off on any more construction for now, so we moved the kids into the bedrooms.  Ben is now in our old room, he's happy that he's got more room and his new desk

 Maggie is much better off in Ben's room, she has loads more space

 We put Ben's old mattress in Maggie's old room, just in case we have any visitors.  Looks very tidy in there now!!!

 We love the porch, we sit out there all the time now

 Sam's new grill

 Rain barrel (would work better if we ever got gutters!!) and my new plant

Garden of Glass exhibit

The exhibit at MBG this year is Garden of Glass by Craig Mitchell Smith.  He spent 2 years studying the flowers in the Climatron before starting on the exhibit.

Blue lotus flowers at the bottom of the waterfall

Poppies

This is real!!!

Passion flower

Bird of Paradise

Moon flowers

Monarchs swarming

Waterfall

Cool reflection in the pool

Ben and his hat

Sam and his horn

flowers-real and glass

Wisteria

Rich and Jude's visit Day 5

We went back to the arch on Tuesday. The weather wasn't that great, but we managed to avoid most of the rain

Rich and Jude went up the arch while Sophie and I waited for them

We ate at Ballpark Village

And, of course, we had to go to Ted Drewe's before they left!!!!  I think this was Sophie's favourite part of the visit!!!!

Rich and Jude's visit Day 4

We made it to the Botanical Gardens on Monday.  Sophie fell asleep in the stroller so we walked around so that Rich and Jude could see some of the gardens.

I even got a picture of them on the bridge in the Japanese Garden

Rich and Sophie at lunch.  They look so alike

Rich and Sophie by the fountain

Rich, Jude and Sophie in the Children's Garden

All children love water....

Rich and Jude's visit Day 3

Day 3 was a beautiful day.  We went to the zoo and unfortunately so did everyone else in St Louis!!!  We parked by Turtle Park and Sophie loved the turtles

Apparently Ben and Maggie still love the turtles too!!!!

We saw very few animals, but the red panda was wandering around.  He's one of my favourites