Mother's Day...

The morning started with my guys making me pancakes and with a vase full of beautiful flowers.  Then my four year old son handed me a little bag from one of my favorite shops Tree of Life.  My eyes must have gotten huge, when I pulled the dreamcatcher necklace from the bag, because my husband started to giggle.  My little guy looked so proud of himself, so I gave him a big smile, went on and on about how much I loved it and told him that I'd wear it the whole day.  After the little guy left the room, my husband told me that he tried to talk him into something else, but his mind was made up and he thought that I'd love it. 

 and really, who wouldn't love a giant gold dreamcatcher with big bright orange feathers!!!

after breakfast and gift giving we headed into the Blue Mountains to the botanical gardens.  The leaves had turned even more, from just a week ago and besides the 43 degree temp. it was a beautiful day. 

after our hike through the botanical gardens we decided to take the picnic lunch, my husband packed and drive out of the mountains (to some warmer weather) to have our picnic.  Halfway down the mountain we spotted an apple orchard, so we pulled over to let our son pick some apples...



it was 53 degrees, at the orchard.  That's already 10 degrees warmer than the botanical gardens.  After the apple picking, we drove the rest of the way out of the mountains to a little park by our house and had our picnic by the river in 63 degree weather...



it was a wonderful Mother's Day!  Perfect!!!

My Weekend in Photographs...

We finally visited the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah, NSW, Australia.  It's only 25 miles (40km) into the mountains from our house and we've been wanting to go, since moving here.  And, let me tell you, WOW, it was so beautiful and so worth the visit!  It's definitely going on our list of places to frequent and to take our out-of-town guests.  We must visit it at least every season to see the changes.  It's fall now, so all the leaves were turning...

I thought I'd share some of our favorite photos I captured this weekend...

Weekend Review...The Blue Mountains

This weekend we didn't get projects completed as I had hoped we would.  The weather was just too gorgeous to stay indoors.  So, we drove into the Blue Mountains, from our town of Richmond to the town of Lithgow.  It was a great day until right at the end when our little guy succumbed to car sickness and projectile vomited all over the back of the car...poor thing takes after me!


Since we live right at the base of the mountains we're planning another drive soon (although we may have to look into something for motion sickness), but this time we want to do the entire loop from Richmond, around Lithgow, down to Katoomba, into Penrith and back to Richmond...it's not much longer and you get new scenery the whole way without back tracking.

If you're interested in the Blue Mountains NSW, click here.