A pulled Muscle and a clean flower bed!

 I had a fantastic weekend, I feel like I got a lot accomplished, but as always it was still too short!

The Art Crawl friday night was a huge success, I have heard some people say they think around 4000 people showed up!

Saturday morning Nathan and I got up and started working in our front flower bed at about 10AM.  The weather couldnt have been better and I even got a little sun tan!  We took a water break here and there and also ate a sandwich and doritos for lunch, but we didnt got inside until 4:30!  It looks SO much better, I should have taken before and after pics but I will do that this Saturday before and after we put out our flowers and mulch.  Im thinking of going with a smaller mulch this time, we have been using nuggets but I think we will do a mulchier mulch.. if that makes any sense!

Sunday was time for church and we finally made it on time... actually early!  Even early enough for me to get a cup of coffee!!!  The sermon and music was wonderful as usual and if you want to listen just click here!  On our way home from church Nathan and I always pass an old dilapitated barn that usually collapses in on itself every time it storms.  Apparently someone is cleaning it out/up and when we rode by there was an old ladder back chair just laying on top of the junk pile!  So... I have been wanting one (for free) for so long because I want to put it out in my yard and sit a flower pot in it!  Sooo... we got it!  haha  I dont have any pics of it yet but trust me there will be more to come!  Im so excited about it!  So then we got home and I wanted to make these Chocolate Esspresso Cupcakes that were in a Paula Dean magazine, so I did and they turned out scruptious!  Also I clipped off a few branches from my curly willow tree and made this cute little arrangement!

This week is going to be pretty fun.  Tomorrow I am representing the bank in the adult spelling bee.  This is the 3rd year I've done this and its always a good time!  And then we have small group on Wednesday!  Duke plays on Thursday, and Friday I get to go get some flowers!!! 

How was your weekend?

Spring = Flowers

Nathan and I bought our house in November, and from the moment we saw the house we loved it!  I remember coming back to our apartment after seeing this house for the first time and us both jumping around and doing the "happy dance".  (In case you dont know what the "happy dance" is, you pretty much just move your body any ridiculous way you can think of to show your enthusiasm and happiness about the situation at hand.)  I remember Nathan saying, "baby, this is the house God has for us."  When he said those words, I knew it was the one too, and as God would have it, it IS the house God had for us.  I could go on and on about our house searching and the things we learned, which were a LOT, and the things we hated, and loved, but this blog would be a book.  The house is perfect for us in many ways, and like all houses, there are things we immediatly changed, things we are changing, and then there is my LIST.  On the very top of my list is the yard.  Of course we have to wait until spring is fully sprung to start doing a lot of my honey dos, but this 70 degree weekend is making me itch to rip up some bushes!

These bushes have been #1 on my list since I laid eyes on them, and I cant tell you how bad I want to hook a chain up to them and just rip them up out of the ground, and if I have my way in it at all...I will be driving the truck when they come up!  I am falling in love with gardening, flowers, and landscaping.  Right now I know next to NOTHING about the subject, but I love learning new things about it so I think this is slowly becoming my new hobby.  The tree's in this picture are dogwoods, they might be dead, we should know in a couple more weeks when everything is in full bloom.  I really hope they are alive they will be so beautiful if they are Im sure.  This year I want to plant hydrangias, I think they are so beautiful,  and  yellow bell bushes.  I already have a camelia bush as you can see. It has made a baby right below it, so I will probably move the baby to another part of the house!  This bush is gorgeous, its been blooming all winter.  It will bloom and then it snowed, the flowers would die, but the next warm day there would be new buds sprouting out everywhere!  Im also planning on planting a curly willow, Nates mom has a beautiful tree at her house and we rooted and planted one in china grove that had started to grow nicley when we sold the house.

Also on my list is build a patio!  This can get rather expensive, so this year we are going to focus on the flowers beds and landscaping, and next year Im planning on tackling the patio, BUT, I want it to be surrounded by trees, flowers and shrubs, so I think I will plant some things near where I want the patio to be so there will already be some larger things around it! 

Since Im new at this whole gardeing/flower stuff, do you have any plants, trees, or shrubs you would like to suggest for me to try?!