For Glenn's birthday last November, I gave him the gift of twelve envelopes, and inside each one was a pre-planned date for every month of the year. Anyway, the date for this month was to play croquet and have a picnic at the Rose Garden. Since babysitters are in short supply around here, Violet came too!
We had a wonderful time. The weather was perfect (like low 70s) and we just found a corner of the park where there weren't too many passers-by, and set up our croquet game! After one game (Glenn won, naturally), we had our picnic, which was take-out Indian food and delicious.
You may notice I didn't get many pictures with Violet's face in them, and that is because she was a very busy girl. She had the best time running around, smelling the flowers. The flowers were all so beautiful.
She also spent a lot of time collecting leaves for me.
You'll notice that all of the leaves in front of me in that picture are of a modest size. She walked a little ways away from me, and when I looked up, this is what I saw.
"I got a big one, mama!"
Haha, she makes me laugh. Anyway, Violet had so much fun that we think we'll have to go back soon to let her run around there again.
Fun date! We love the picture of Violet dragging the branch with the sun backlighting her hair.
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