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A Cemetery Walk, Backyard Gardening and a Mother's Day Soccer Game

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We've recently put Theo on a schedule. 

Basically so we can get him out of the house. If it was up to him he'd just play video games all day, every day.

Wednesdays we have named Walk Wednesday. Last week we went to the T.S Roberts Bird Sanctuary and Theo kept saying he wanted to go to the cemetery.

So, we biked to the Lakewood Cemetery.


The cemetery has a brochure of all the notable gravestones.

Of course Mr. Loring, father of the park system, had a big one. 


Hey, there's the historic street car driving by.

It was actually quite beautiful in here.

I want to be an Elk or Eagle. I need to get on that.
 

We'll have to come back as we only saw the northwest portion. 


Theo led the way on the Bryant Avenue Bikeway. Can't wait to get more protected bike lanes this good.

Oh, hey it's Sunday. Look at this wicked light filtering through our radiators.

Spring has finally come along and our yard is looking better than ever.

Meadow is getting so big now that's she graduated to an adult bike. She wanted a Dutch style bike like mine. We had been searching Facebook Marketplace for weeks for another good deal on a Linus. 

After messaging a few people, I found this Papillionaire bike, a now defunct brand out of Australia. Great find and got it for a song.

Since we were out this way we stopped at the Eden Prairie library. 

Meadow and I both leave with a stack of books.
 
We then drove over to Lake Harriet for Theo's friend's birthday party.

We thought we would drop him off and walk around Lake Harriet. We ended up chatting and staying the whole time. It was nice to meet more parents in our neighborhood.

Meadow kept to herself in a tree nearby. What a goof.
 
A few of the kids wanted to do it too after seeing her up there. 
 
An iPad outside, I guess...

Adding more wood chips and attempting to smother out more creeping bellflower. 

The area under our pear and apple trees gets a bit chaotic by the end of summer. I split some hostas and tried to break up the lilies that don't flower.

This is the one corner of the yard that seems to preoccupy Brooke.

I got homemade gifts from the kids for Mother's Day. This pop up card from Meadow is amazing.

As I do on mother's day, we got plants for our gardens. This year we tried a new-to-us garden center in Eagan.

Pahl's Market, as you can see.

Back at home we quickly made a go to spring meal: egg and asparagus sandwiches.

A couple weeks ago at the Pentz Home's picnic, Theo won tickets to a Minnesota Aurora game. This was the first time I had watched a soccer game in over 20 years. I had a lot of questions.

I don't really remember you asking any. 

It was a pretty chill affair. 
 
You can sit anywhere you want. We opted for the shadier grassier area which got uncomfortable after awhile. 

Theo wins again with a t-shirt and sunglasses.

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