The McMahon Family

I wanted to document (and share!) my beautiful flowers this year.  I know, I’m getting old. I enjoy sitting and looking at my flowers, while watching the birds…Last year I scattered a bag of zinnia seeds and they grew to be over five feet tall! They overtook the front bed and grew out of control, but were so pretty. So this year, I decided to go with a bag of mixed wild flowers hoping they weren’t as tall, but they grew just as big!  Oh well. I enjoyed them just as much.

I got tired of battling weeds, so I caved and put in mulch.

Bag of mixed wild flower seeds. They turned out so beautifully!

I LOVE my zinnias.

The peonies were gorgeous this year also.

My Mother’s Day lilies. 🙂

These flowers draw the hummingbirds. I love to sit in my front room and watch them fighting each other for the flowers. 🙂

Here’s a shot of one of them hanging out at Cheri’s feeders. We were enjoying a gorgeous evening on her front porch.

https://youtu.be/uVrJu-bMz4U

We were lucky to be invited to join Nicki and Luke on their boat for the day. It was a blast.

That’s Daddy driving the boat!

Check out our wonderful day in pictures here.

Patrick decided to take the camera and take pictures and got some adorable shots of everyone! Take a look here of his great photography skills here.

Okay, our house has a pretty good sized kitchen. It’s not huge, but it’s a good size.  An average person would be just fine in it.  But with my balance what it is, it’s really large for me.  When I cook in it, I feel like I’m going to fall backwards. And it’s hard to carry things across to the other side. So I got this great idea to put in an island. Shannon wasn’t excited about it because, again, it’s not a huge kitchen. And trying to match cabinets and countertops would be really hard…

The kitchen before

But he caved and said okay. And Luke offered to help me in the countertop department!

My Christmas present from Luke (and Nicki) 🙂

Then it was off to pick out the island. We found the perfect match to our cabinets at the discount warehouse in Arthur.

The boys waiting. They weren’t allowed in the warehouse. I LOVED it.

Then it was off to pick out granite.  This was sooo much fun!!

Lukie did all the work on our island top.

Even installed it!

See? It fits! (I need a better pic! I just saw that the faucet is in the way of the island!)

I absolutely love cooking in there now. I have stability and extra counter space! 🙂  Thanks, Shannon for understanding (and not even complaining one time with it in there!)

Mac started guitar lessons a couple of weeks ago. He’s doing a great job. I decided to video his first couple weeks of practice so we can see how much he grows over the summer.  So here is just a snippet of one of his practice sessions.

https://youtu.be/_wnKsqM3eL0

He usually practices with Shannon and they go through the exercises together, but this particular evening, Shannon had to work late, so Mac decided to try the next page in his music book without him.

https://youtu.be/n1Qq3vB3WkY