beautiful flowers and beautiful girls

Aunt Laura popped in for a weekend which is always so much fun. We love having her here... of course. While she was here, we decided to check out the Duke Gardens on the Duke Campus. I had been there before, but many many years ago. It was more beautiful than I remembered and we all had a great time.

We hit the gift shop (of course) on the way out and got a few red-eyed tree frog (Maddie's favorite)tubby toys as souveniers.

And as a note- Aunt Laura has many names... Lorla, Lola, etc. The third niece has come up with a third name for her... "alla." Sometimes it sounds a little like "hola" but most of the time its just "alla." We love it. Not sure why each of her nieces decided to give her their own name, but it sure is cute!