Long Time No Hear....Sorry!

Sorry that it's been over a month since my last post....I'll try to do better. Things have been a bit busy for us recently. With the warmer weather we have been working hard on home improvements and enjoying being outdoors for more than 5 minutes. Here's what's been going on (I'll post pictures at a later date):

The Yard
Our goal is to have as little grass as possible in our townhouse front and back yards. So, we dug up a nice section of grass and planted a new flower bed in the back yard beside our patio. We now have snapdragons, freesia, sedums, golden euonymus and gardenia bushes to admire and enjoy their sweet scents. They are young plants and if they make it - hopefully they will grow in nicely. We just need to find a few stepping stones to add in the bed and it will be complete.

On the other side of the yard, still next to the patio, we have our vegetable garden. Our veggie garden is on it's 3rd year and hopefully this will be the best! We have planted cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, cantaloupe and watermelon. I LOVE fresh fruits and veggies - especially tomatoes - and they all appear to be hanging in there with the crazy cool and rainy weather we've been having recently.

Our back yard has a lower level toward the back, and we have also added some plantings here recently. We had 2 rose bushes that were gifts from my mom on the right hand side of the yard. Behind those, in the middle, we planted a clematis vine with a trellis. On the left hand side of the yard we planted a japanese maple tree - which are slow growers and have beautiful red leaves.

The House
We also had a little work done to the house. For those of you that have seen the house, you should remember the periwinkle door and shutters - ugh! We had some painters out for routine repainting of the trim on the outside of the house and had them repaint the door and shutters a nice charcoal grey. It looks so much better!

We also had some overhead lighting put in the spare bedrooms upstairs and in the den in the entryway. These rooms had switches that were connected to wall plugs and while lamps are pretty - they just don't cut it over overhead lighting. I must say that the recessed lighting in the den looks wonderful! It's a major improvement!!

The Family
We've also been trying to spend more time visiting with our families. Since David's parents and my brother's families live in the area, it's really no excuse for us not to see them more often. And we were lucky enough to have my mother come up for Mother's Day so we got to spend some nice quality time with her as well.

Today is my mom's birthday - so if you know her, send her an email or ecard wishing her a happy one. She deserves it! (If you need her email address, just email me and I'll send it to you.)

As you know this upcoming weekend is the first major holiday weekend of the summer. So there will be plenty of cookouts and parties for all to attend - us included. Wishing you all a safe a happy weekend - may the weather be nice wherever you are!!