Spring Break at the Botanic Gardens

My friend Heather invited Kenzie and I to go to the Memphis Botanic Gardens to see their "My Big Backyard" area. I think it's fairly new, but it was the first time I'd been since Brian and I visited right after we moved to Memphis in 2005, so everything looked new to me!

I have to admit, several of the iron (tin?) characters eyes creeped me out a little. The eyes were just black holes...yikes. But isn't that a cute setup of the flower "beds"? Complete with shoes at the end! They had flowers in them too! They had lots of whimsical iron characters and flowers and scenes and I can't wait to take Mom next time we go. I know she'll get so many more ideas for her own backyard...but I don't know where she'll put them!

This is Kaitlyn (sp?). She goes to Ms. Cindy's with Kenzie so we were so excited to run into her and her mommy! The little one is Mackenzie, Heather's little girl. She's also going to be a big sister in a few short months!

This place had the CUTEST assortment of little houses for the kids to play in! You gotta go!

My neat freak daughter...sweeping out "Tink's house" as she called it.

The giant brown things are suppose to be earthworms on the side of the hill and the tunnels are suppose to be worm holes. Cute.

The girls could have spent hours at the sand pits alone! But we enticed them away with hula hoops and water!

They had SUCH a good time and we can't wait to go back!!