Some Very Pretty Things

When I finally loaded all my recent pictures on the computer I realized I have been the happy recipient of some very pretty things recently. Y'all showered me with such byootiful things on Mother's day that I wanted to share them on here, with a few other things! Thanks HEAPS to all of you!

I absolutely love all my porch flowers!! The ones that did not have pots are now happily potted and gracing the back porch. It really makes me happy to see them when I look out the window. I also enjoy pottering around, dead-heading them and watering them. It reminds me of all of y'all, so of course that makes me happy.

Mother's day was also full of amazing food! Check out this breakfast:

It was sooooo good, and I ate soooooo much that I had the meat-sweats in church! [Yeah, I know, TMI!] Thanks to you, Chris, Chris Jr, and Val. It was a delicious breakfast!

Then lunch! Val made a recipe that she found that was out of this world!

It was a salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, olives stuffed with feta, chicken strips, thyme, and a homemade dressing. It is making me hungry thinking about it! You did good, Vally!

Later in the day on Mother's day, we went to Michael and Lynette's. As always we had a blast, and more byootiful things awaited me.

We had incredible coffee and snacks, and then we went to supper at Carraba's .

And Nettsie and Michael also gave me more byootiful things. A byootiful porch plant (that greets me on the pantry porch) and a byootiful antique tea cup!

I love having it on the breakfast table in the mornings. It  really is a happy little cup!

Something else that has been byootiful this spring are the hydrangeas. I don't know when our hydrangea bushes have ever been so full and amazing.

 We have bouquets all over the house. Just like rich folks in the movies!

And then there were the strawberries. I bought strawberries from Thomas Penninger this year and they are the best I have had in years and years.

I think it is so fun just bringing them home from the nursery. They smelled so good in the car. It made me think of all the strawberry picking forays when y'all were little. I have fond memories of that, but I know the reality was it was hot and y'all didn't like to pick longer than 6.2 minutes. But 6.2 minutes of sweet memories obviously trump an hour and a half of whiny memories!

And just to make you hungry, check out the pictures of the annual strawberry pies. 

One for Mother's day....

 ...and two for Vally's birthday! Are you drooling yet?

Last of all, this byootiful creation was the groom's cake at Luke and Sarah Dellinger's wedding.

Yessiree, folks, that is a cake! It was about 18 x 26 and the part at the bottom was real, cooked bacon! All the kids who got a piece of cake fought for a piece of bacon! Isn't that great! And they couldn't have picked a better brand, eh Chris Jr.?

Thanks for enjoying all these byootiful things with me!