Weekend Yardwork

Our Saturdays, in April, have been spent working in our yard.  Last spring was our first spring in our new home, but because I was pregnant, I didn't feel like doing a ton of bending and pulling weeds and all those necessary things that must be done when working in the yard.  When we purchased our house, the landscaping had been neglected for a very long time.  So all we really knew to do, last year, was try to cut back overgrown shrubs and get an idea of what we had to work with.  Oh, how I love a good project and just being able to make things your own.  Hadley was super pumped about helping her Daddy, but had to eat a banana in her Dora chair before she could get started.

Justin had to dig a trench to put our new stone edgers around the landscape, which meant a lot of our rock mulch made it into the yard.  So Miss Haddy helped pick up the rocks.

I guess she got a little bored after picking up rock after rock because she started making soup in the bucket, which consisted of rocks and wildflowers.  She even found a few worms, which excited her.  This spring, I still have to be the cheerleader from the sidelines, for the most part, since Canaan needs someone to be inside with him.  But I sure can make a mean "honey-do" list ;)

Take a look at what we discovered when we uncovered our pool this season.  Can you say leak?  Yikes.  Justin even pulled a dead squirrel out of the pool.  After further investigation of the situation by the people at the pool store, we determined that we will indeed have to have a new liner.  Yikes again....pools are expensive.

Last weekend's landscaping project consisted of a twisted river birch tree and some new shrubs.

This homely-looking tree is a Redbud, and has a long way to go to reaching maturity.  The pencil holly shrubs on each side of the redbud are supposed to reach 6-8' so that should help provide some nice height to the brick expanse.  The small rose bushes should provide some nice pops of color this summer.  We are excited about our little projects going on around our house.  Spring is an exciting time of the year!