For James and my fourth wedding anniversary, we drove to Belingrath Gardens and enjoyed the beauty of the flowers. I had never been, and I loved it!
The rose garden was huge and amazing. I enjoyed smelling the roses with my super-sensitive pregnancy-induced sense of smell.
A pond in the rose garden
One of the hothouses
The Belingrath Gardens home was fun to tour. His fortune was made by bottling and selling Coke from the 1930s through World War II. She collected porcelain figurines, and had 15 sets of china and four dining rooms! The house was lovely, but nowhere near the scale of the Biltmore. :-)
A view of the house from the river.
A lion statue in the gardens
The flower-lined walk beside the great lawn
One of the beautifully landscaped ponds in the gardens
The water feature beside the house
James' Grandmother, Grandma Damewood, came to visit her daughters so we got to go to the Smother's house to see her.
Grandma Damewood wrote a book just for Lily about her name. It is precious! It is about Lily asking herself, "who could love a lily?" then talking to the frog that loved the lily pad, the hummingbird that loved the tiger lily, the bees that loved the lily of the valley flowers and then she remembers the Easter Lily and Jesus' resurrection. Then she runs to her Mama who says, "I love my Lily." That is extra sweet because I do say that to Lily all the time.
Lily got to sit on the Smother's horse and go in the chicken house behind her. She loves seeing the chickens!
The other week we had all of the family over to tell everyone that we were expecting our third baby in December. This is all of the current cousins on the couch at our house. There are three more babies on the way too!
No comments:
Post a Comment