End of Summer Already?

Really? Summer is already over? Where did it go? The kids are already back in school! I have a little sister in 1st grade, one in 4th, one in 7th, one in 10th, one in 12th, a brother in 2nd and a BIL in 10th! Holy cow pies I feel oldish....

Well, we here at the Bahns house have been trying to make the most of the warm weather. Like sleeping in your underwear...

We have been so busy with work and school and all that so we have not really gone anywhere. Just hanging around here...

Bryar is getting to be so grown-up. She trys to be a big help and she makes a good big sister.

Rowynn just keeps growing. She is a pretty happy baby, she just REALLY prefers to be held. And she loves Bryar so much, she always has a big smile for her sister...

But she doesn't like that carseat!

AND she sucks her thumb to put herself to sleep. Aawww....

Flowers in my Garden

Now, we only have a relatively small space outside our backdoor with a porch and a little dirt patch that I can do whatever I want with. So, of course, I planted a bunch of flowers in the dirt patch and have three big planters on the porch. When the pansies I planted in the Spring finally gave up I went to Lowes and found some Petunias, and some on clearance at Wal-Mart that looked half dead. But I brought them home, pruned them a little, gave them some food and water and they are getting HUGE!! And I must say, I LOVE the way Petunias smell...

I also have this bright pink Geranium that my Great Grandma Bunot gave me for Mother's Day...

And this variety of Dahlia I found at Wal-Mart kinda reminds me of a lion...

And these are Salvia, I think... Whatever they are we just really like the bright red, and they have bloomed all summer.

Next year I hope to plant the front flower bed, also. I just really like the way it feels to come home and see my little space overflowing with all these pretty things...