Flowers, more flowers and hair

Sorry for the delayed posting. Our life has been pretty uneventful lately. But, in the interest of keeping to my blogging comittment, I am posting this fairly unexciting recap of our activities of late.
It all comes down to house work. With the lack of semi-nice weekends without rain, any nice day you will find us outside working on the property. The story of my life lately is planting, weeding, planting and more weeding. Oh and I work in cleaning here and there too. Gabe's life is mowing and caring for the newly planted vegetable garden.

We inherited a sizeable perinneal garden with this house. And I have been reluctantly thrown into gardening. So far, its more like weeding. It can get pretty overwhelming given the amount we have. I am learning as I go thanks to a lot of help from my stepmom Linda and mother-in-law Bonnie and Cindy. Slowly, I am starting to get a little more confident with the garden. The last two weekends have been spent cleaning up the flower beds.

This past weekend, Gabe's parents, Bonnie and Rick came up to stay with us. Saturday, we went to our nephew Lucas' baseball game and stumbled upon a terrific greenhouse. I had never seen anything like it! It was HUGE! We were there for 2 hours and we didn't get through it all. They had every flower, plant and vegetable imaginable. And the quality of the plants are awesome. You pay for it too. We came home with a few perinneals. So this weekend was spent planting. I really hope they make it.


A couple of mum plants and a new cala lilly. The rock was an anniversary gift from Cindy. In this picture, it looks a little like a tombstone! HA!

The latest completed section of the flower bed. I have no idea what this bush is. I really want to get rid of it. Maybe next year. We probably use about 10 bags of mulch. I love this mulch because the color doesn't fade over the year. Scott's Naturescape Mulch
I thought this was a neat and unique ground cover. Dancing Clover
I just can't stop with the Columbines. These were too pretty to pass up.
Cindy and I spent time cleaning out the dead hens and chicks a couple weeks ago and since then they have been going crazy! I love these because they are so low maintenance and look so pretty! Like little artichokes.
This is the next big project. With the exception of the day lilly plants, this is all weeds. Its one big mess. We will have to dig all of it out and start over. The weeds are even taking over the grass! EEK!

Ok, now to the hair. I finally got sick enough of my hair and built up the courage to chop it off! I was pretty nervous about it. This is the shortest I have ever had it. But I really love it. I finally have a hair style and its very easy. This is what they call a stacked bob. And before you ask, yes, I have a shot of the front, but it won't ever be posted here since I hate pictures of myself. At least here you can't see my face. You will just have to see it in person :)