Spring Fever in Winter Garden

This weekend it was the Spring Fever in the Garden, and it ended up being such a beautiful weekend! It rained on Saturday, but ended up being a great weekend. Events like this are what drew us to this neighborhood and keeps it so fun and lively. It’s especially great that we are in golf cart distance and that also makes finding parking so much easier.

Friday

Friday night, we met up with some friends for an impromptu dinner at the newest restaurant in town, The Hangry Bison. They built a grassy area and butterfly garden with the addition of this new building, and the kids absolutely love it. It get the kids excited to go out cause they can play catch or run around and it’s amazing for us too.

Saturday

This weekend we had the perfect lineup of soccer games. Not too early and back to back which is the best. And to add to that, we had two wins as well! The kids played so good! And it was great weather because it was supposed to rain, but never did and was completely overcast with a slight breeze.

Brett’s parents came in for the weekend as well and we all planned to celebrate Brett’s cousin Lindsey’s 40th birthday!

We went to Armando’s restaurant in College Park to celebrate.

Sunday

Sunday we got to the Spring Fever in the Garden festival right when it opened up. There were so many fun vendors selling plants and other fun garden accessories and decorations. We were looking for cilantro for our herb garden, but learned that cilantro does not grow well in the summer months, and that culantro is very similar in flavor. We decided to give it a shot and add to our garden.

It’s also a biennial plant, which means it should last us several years if we replant the buds that grow on the tips.

We also participated in a super fun scavenger hunt with the kids. At the end we got a code word and used it to submit our names into a drawing for a trip to Disney. I hope we win!

The kids also loved this motorcycle exhibit, and when they asked if they could sit on them, I said “Absolutely not!” But, they were allowed, so of course the kids loved it. They looked a little too comfortable on those things!

There was also entertainment and the kids were having a blast watching. Reece got called up a volunteer to hold up some flaming poles for the man to balance on his head. He was brave, but I think we was definitely happy to be free from the flaming poles above!

We headed home for lunch and while the kids were playing, I snuck away for some alone time at Aldi for the week’s shop.

We are ready for the week and I hope this Spring Weather sticks around!

I hope you all had a great weekend!