A happy Mother's Day

All I wanted for Mother's Day was my new and expanded garden to be constructed and planted {and a Spring Yard Cleaning session}. Last year we transformed the sandbox into a garden and for tomatoes and herbs. This year we ripped up some bushes {with the car and a chain} to add 12 feet of garden space. Earlier in the week my father-in-law helped Jody build the additional beds {with the help of these}. Then Saturday morning, 5 yards of dirt was dumped in the driveway:

I have never seen a little boy so thrilled:

{A giant pile of dirt made up for the rained out T Ball game!}

Even the princess joined in on the fun: They were completely covered in mud by the end of the project but they had an absolute ball. Here is the new garden: Filled with tomatoes, banana peppers, pepperoncini, red and green peppers, squash, zucchini, green beans, okra, herbs, watermelon and cantaloupe {most of which was started from seed}. We might can even have a truck farm at the Farmers Market {just kidding}! We still had over a yard of dirt left over. I told Popsy {who came over to lend his gardening expertise, tiller and muscles} that I had wanted a "horse troughs planter" {inspired from this blog}. He showed back up with this from the farmer's co-op:

I filled it with caladiums, jacob's ladder, angel wing begonia, button fern, maidenhair fern, euphorbia, and creeping jenny. I can't wait for it get more filled out. We also cleaned up the wisteria and oak leaf hydrangeas. Here is the pile of "stuff" we cleaned out of the yard:

It took us all day yesterday! So today we ate:

Uncle Christopher {with Jody as his soux chef} prepared a wonderful meal for all the mother's {and Aunt Stacey}. We dinned on fried catfish and chicken fingers, hushpuppies, onion rings, grilled sweet potatoes and slaw. We ended the meal with grilled peach cobbler and homemade vanilla ice cream. We had a wonderful Mother's Day!