Happy Memorial Day weekend!

We've had such a lovely Memorial Day weekend. We have no plans, nowhere pressing to be, just hanging around and doing whatever comes to mind. Mira learned to ride her new big bike this weekend! Took all of two minutes before she was tooling around the neighborhood. She's gotten a few scrapes, but takes it like a champ and gets right back on her bike. We're fortunate that there are sidewalks in our neighborhood, which takes a bit of worry away for me!
The local outdoor pool opened up, so we went there on Saturday for awhile. It was a little chilly, even though the pool is heated, so we spent half the time at the connected indoor pool. Amelia surprised me by actually swimming underwater! She can go a few feet at a time. I'm impressed! She just started lessons in February and has been skittish until the last three weeks. All that extra time in the pool is paying off!

Amelia begged me to pull out the bounce house today. The girls surprised me by bouncing in it for 2 hours today! It really made the set-up and take-down worth my while. And I got some great reading time on the front porch in. It's my favorite place to be in the summer. Chris and I had sushi and wine on the porch for dinner last night while the girls played in the yard. My idea of heaven.
And Chris got to golf today! He said he did pretty good for his first time out this season. When he got home, I put him to work planting our new dogwood bushes and a holly bush.
The yard is really coming together. Last week, we had some more rock delivered and put rock on the newly planted pussy willow bed. We are hoping these survive this very wet area! The evergreeen trees we had there didn't survivive . . . twice! Chris is tired of replanting this area, as you can imagine. These pussy willows should do the trick.
The lilacs in full bloom. The scent is heavenly!
My sweet little girl:
And Mira got a major haircut! We went to the salon yesterday just for a trim, but Mira decided she really wanted short hair, so here is her new style:
She really loves it! (And I think she looks precious, and suddenly grown up!)
I hope you all are having a great weekend as well! Not sure what's happening tomorrow. It's supposed to rain, so might head to the pool or the Maple Grove Maze for awhile. Cheeseburgers, corn on the cob, and my mom's strawberry pie for dinner. Ahhh, summer has begun!