Flower Child

Remember shortly after Olivia was born we gave Isabelle hundreds of flower seeds and let her plant them willy-nilly all over our backyard and under the trees? She loved watering Great Grandma Joan's flowers with her when she visited Salem, UT last summer, so when the blooming season was done Grandma gathered up envelopes of the tiny seeds out of her garden and mailed them to Isabelle. Isabelle raked and "foo'd" for hours one spring morning and filled the ground with seeds.

Fast forward a few months and we are overcome with marigolds and zinnias growing all over the backyard and some nearly as tall as Isabelle. We have had so much fun watching the little seeds turn from tiny green leaves to large beautiful flowers and have enjoyed the wild flower garden out our back windows all summer long. It was Ben and I who were skeptical that the seeds would actually bloom, not our little gardener. She had the faith that if she planted those seeds, watered them and gave them plenty of sun, of course they would bloom. And she was right!