Weeds, weeds and more weeds...

Ross and I have been weeding the flower beds in our back yard like crazy. When we moved in they were already a little rough, then last summer we didn't really do much about them. I've decided to take them on one at a time and thank goodness I did because it's been a huge undertaking. Above is a "before" picture which really doesn't do the mess justice because I didn't think to take any pictures before I started doing anything so this is after we started but before we finished. :) You can see the trash bag full of weeds already and the dead grass in a ring around the flower bed, well that WHOLE area was weeds and over grown poppies out to the edge of the dead grass.



We both worked pretty hard in the yard today and I'm pretty sure I have a tan line from the gardening gloves I was wearing...oops! Okay, so drumroll please, here it is all done!




We're going to grill and have dinner on the patio tonight so we can enjoy all of our hard work! One down...too many to go. That's all for now! :)

Blog Virgin!

Okay, so since I have family so far away and I'm not the best at keeping up with phone calls, I thought I would start to blog a little about what goes on in our lives. Don't expect too much or anything too exciting, I can't say that there is a whole lot that really goes on but I want to keep you up to date a little bit. :)

To start out I'll just let you know that between classes, work, my internship and trying to tame the garden (eek) I've been a busy lady! Ross is really helping out a lot and I appreciate that more than he probably knows. Today we filled up four lawn & garden bags with weeds and overgrown clippings from the yard. I'll try and get some pictures, although nothing looks very impressive yet. Hopefully we'll get some new topsoil mixed in soon and flowers planted, THEN you might be impressed...a little.

Lucy and Duke are curled up with me on the couch and we're all quite content tonight. I think I'll leave you with that, I still have a paper to write tonight!