Updates!

Since I have not posted anything for a while I thought it was time for a few updates.

A month or so ago we weeded and put wood-chips down on all of our flowerbeds. They look way better! It was a lot of work, but totally worth it.

BEFORE:

We had a total mess! We filled up our garbage can with weeds for two months! Once the garbage can was mostly full we started bagging it and slowly were able to get rid of the massive amount weeds. To give you an idea, this is just one side of the house. We have flowerbeds all around it and in the corners. Yikes!


This is not the greatest picture of me, but you can see all the weeds I pulled! Some of them were little trees. I pulled most of them while Spence went with our neighbor to get more wood-chips. Thanks Randy for your help!



AFTER:
It is so much better!

We can now enjoy our yard and not worry about weeding all of the time. I put some Preen on top to help prevent weeds. It seems to be helping a lot.

Here is a picture of Spence spraying some of the leftover weeds we missed at first. He is sporting our team while he works - Go Utes!

So that was a lot of work :-)














Our couch came in a while ago. We love it! It is so comfortable. We found some cute pillows from Wal-Mart to put on it for now. Eventually we want this couch upstairs in the TV Room so I didn't want to get nice pillows for it yet. We have not found any couches we like for downstairs. So, this one is filling the empty space in the living room for now.

I made French Onion Soup for the first time the other day. It was so yummy! I found the recipe on allrecipes.com. I used Gruyere and Romano cheese that is floating on a rosemary/garlic french bread slice. We had a nice salad and some chicken to go with it. The soup was so good we didn't get to the chicken because we were so full!

















Our Super Awesome Plantation Shutters came in a few weeks ago. It has been so nice! We now have privacy and they really help keep the cold air in, and the hot sun out! I will post some pics later...

Well that's all I have for now. I need to start taking some more pictures. I always feel like a blog would be incomplete without them. This is good, because then I will actually take pictures. I love having pictures but am so bad at remembering to use that camera.