Scarlett's Birthday

On May 8th, we went to my sister's house to celebrate Scarlett's Birthday # 7! I can't believe how quickly time is going...

This time I made the cake and try to decorate it. What do you think?

Arianna waiting for some cake!!! She likes either vanilla or chocolate, this time was vanilla with some strawberry filling and cream cheese frosting.

Here we are about to sing the birthday song..

They take joy in cutting their own cake. I guess that means they are getting older :)


Scarlett about to have a yummy slice of cake.


I think we can say that Raven liked the cake!


Scarlett opening some presents. I hope she enjoyed her day!

Flowers, Kids and nature

Here is a very clean bird (American Robin). It looks cute after finishing taking a bath. I actually took pictures during the entire thing. He or She splashed a lot, and seemed to really enjoy the water.

First, I thought the dove was injured or something, but thank God it was just taking a nap or rest.

How about some Blue Jays? It is a really beautiful bird, although not the nicest. I kept hearing his call and it turned out we have about 5 of them! We saw them at Mother's Day.

Now, this is a remarkable vine "Clematis". I planted it about three summers ago, the second summer I thought it was not coming, but gave me 3 flowers only. This time around it looks around 15 flowers so far, yippee!

Our first rose that I am going to plant this weekend (depending on the weather). It is called "Chicago", let's see how it does...

I bought 3-4 azaleas and 1 rhododendron. I love the color of this one, beautiful yellow.

All these tulips were bought on 2008 at Holland, MI. My mom helped me putting them on the ground and you can see how beautiful the look. The yellow tulips (third photo down) now looks more orange. Really amazing change of color.

Two weekends ago, my nieces (Raven and Scarlett) came to stay for a day/ night. They were playing outside for awhile.


All that play, I guess she was ready for a nap...

Papa is sick!

I took Mike to the doctor and they gave him some antibiotics (pick up later- especial prescription) and they told him not to go to work until Tuesday... Hopefully his throat will feel better and his voice will return...