Gardening

I learned this year, I really do love gardening (except the whole pulling weeds part).

I started by going to Lowes and buying a million flowers to plant, have no idea what I was doing. We bought a few rose bushes and some annuals. It looked a so pretty when we got them all planted, but I had no idea how big they would all get.

Here is me, showing off what I accomplished!

There are my roses we babied along all year because we broke them in

1/2 when they were being planted.

My grandma brought me a box full of daffodil bulbs, so we'll see what my yard looks like next year. I feel successful in my "keeping plants alive" skill.

Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, I did finally get some tomatoes on my plant! It just took all season for them to actually get big enough to produce fruit :)

Updates

Wow it's been forever since I've been on here.

Here are the few updates in our lives. We are finally living a "normal" life in our house again. We have a couple of things to finish up before it's all put back together, such as baseboards, the toe kick under the cabinets, and actually put up a back splash in the kitchen. We were supposed to finished a couple of those things today, but Anthony is down with a cold so we'll wait til next weekend :)

I thought it was hilarious we had the toilet outside for a few days!

Working hard to get it done!

Ta-Da! All finished!

I love the counter tops even more than I thought I would!

Random fact: My parents gave us Molly's old cat bed because she never used it. We just move it around the house because Sirus just sniffs it and walks away. Last weekend Ruth magically got Sirus into the bed, and now it's his favorite place to sleep (2 years later). I think it's precious to see him all curled up in a bed.

I'm sad that those were the only updates I could come up with. Nothing really exciting has been going on around here. House work pretty much keeps us busy all the time and when we're not working on the house, we're at school busy busy busy. Parent/Teacher conferences were this week. Anthony is exhausted! I was able to come home and have the house ready for some friends to come over and vent after a long week of parents! I enjoyed being able to invite people over again. Remember, I love to entertain!

Other than that, things have been pretty mellow.