Oh What a Weekend

The work we did on Mothers day (in the rain) was just the prep work for what happened around here this weekend!

On Friday hubby came home from work shortly after 5 (early for him) & we got started digging the big hole! Hubby put the pond liner in that was it for the night... darn darkness.

We woke up early Sat. to REALLY LOUD music. There was a marathon running around where we live & we must have had one of the starting lines on the next street over!

We got outside early & went to work! My job was to go around the yard & get plants for around our new pond. Hubby was busy getting compost soil/rocks to build up the pond. By dinner time it was DONE!!.. Rocks, flowers, water falling everything DONE!! WOW I was tired by the end of that work!

What a wonderful day!

Today started off the way every weekend morning does, Pancake, bacon & egg breakfast. Then it was upstairs, get dressed & outside we go! We were outside by 10a.m & came in for the night @ 6:45. We cleaned more gardens getting the yard ready for the summer! The girls were busy playing. Did I mention it rained most days this past week so there was A LOT of water in our yard. Kids + water = MUD
After out lunch break, hubby & the eldest were out in SHORTS & sandals. The middle girls was BLACK... she decided she would float her toy boats in the LARGE puddles of water. OH what fun! Luckily it was HOT out & the girls love playing outside. There was no complaining except from the baby! She didn't like being stuck in one spot watching all this fun so she kept taking naps!

Hubby has his 1st sunburn of the season & I'm sure it won't be the last. But it is very funny looking, he had on a Tshirt & gloves.. so only the middle of his arms are red!!

In the house for dinner & the middle little lady fell asleep waiting for dinner to be served. Thankfully she woke up to eat her dinner then it was shower for all & BED!! Oh the sore muscles we will have in the morning!

ooh SPRING

Spring has sprung at our house & I have the SORE muscles to show for it! Those of you who don't know, when we moved my husband decided he wanted a large yard (1.5 acres) with LOTS of gardens/landscaping. The only problem is it didn't come with a gardener that's hubby & this year I'm included in that equation. Last year, being pregnant the heat / worked kicked me in the pants & I really didn't help much at all. I think all I did was complain about how hot it was & how tired I was! But not this spring.. oh no I can't get away with that! On Sunday we worked outside for about 4 hours & we only got 1 garden around a tree cleaned & 1/3 of a garden that runs along the front of our house cleaned! NOW I'm SORE!!!

The little ladies we in charge of collecting all the STICKS that had fallen off the trees oh what a pile they had!

Can't wait for next weekend to torture my body more!


this is what the front looks like in the middle of summer! oh the work!

Wordless Wednesday

TREES

Having a large yard is wonderful & having lots of mature trees on it is an extra bonus. The privacy they provide is amazing. But today when I looked out the window I briefly thought it was snowing, so many leaves were falling all at once. But by the time I got the camera out the snow storm of leaves had stopped (for today) I'm sure as the fall continues I will be able to get a picture & post it. Lets just hope that with hubby's regular upkeep of the yard there wont be 65 yard waste bags of leaves this fall & the same amount next spring. Last year was a killer for leaves & this year I can't imagine I'll be of any help to rake & bag the leaves.

The other down side to a lot of great privacy trees and fall is the amount of leaves that land in a clean pool. The weather here today is above 90 & the girls & I were outside for all of 30 minutes before they were complaining it was way too hot to stay outside to play. I quickly looked over at the pool which hubby spent hours cleaning on Saturday to only see MANY leaves covering the top.