Big days

Sorry that this took so long to get posted. Cait and I have been pretty busy today but, we'll get to that in a little bit. Let's rewind to yesterday. I of course, had to work, but that didn't stop the helpful, handy parents from working on the house (see picture on the left). They managed to tame a wild bush, trim trees, and generally shape up the wild and crazy plants that surrounded the house.  After getting home, but before I was able to even leave my car, my dad and I were off to pick up his truck from a local tire shop. That took a bit of time, but we got back fairly quickly and were able to get back to work. Mostly it was cleaning up the trimmings from the bushes and trees that were pruned. All of the trimmings, yard trash, and random branches are now sitting in or next to our fire pit. Time for a bonfire!!! Don't forget your marshmallows!!!

Now time for today and what a day it was. I know Cait and I are both worn out.

I wasn't feeling to well this morning, and left work a bit early. After some sleep (which helped..along with the medicine), we went shopping. Most of the shopping was spent trying to a) figure out what plants we want and b) looking for one of those plants. Let's tackle the first part of the shopping. Looking for plants. We went around town and down to Yulee looking at plants. Cait finally found some Snapdragons that she fell in love with. I found some Salvias that I like, but Cait didn't (at that time). What we were really looking for were some plants to go in between our windows (if you don't understand, you'll see what I'm talking about in a moment). We also snagged some mulch (see picture). The pink swing is for Savannah and was purchased at Wal-Mart along with the Sky Pencil Holly. That was the plant that we spent most of the day looking for. And it was worth it. This brings us to part two of today's adventure.

After visiting the 2 nurseries, we decided that we were going to go with the Sky Pencil Holly for the bushes. And that was a pain in the butt. Everywhere we thought had the Holly, didn't. And the place we didn't want to get the Holly from turned out to be the best deal (of course). We got them home, planted and were trying to figure out what to do with the Snapdragons. Originally they were supposed to be for Cait's garden, but we felt that they looked better in the front of the house. We set them out and felt that some thing was missing. So, back to Wal-Mart. There I picked up two more of the Holly and 6 of the Salvia. Once the Salvia were laid out, Cait fell in love with them. Now, time to get everything planted. Aside from the bugs, everything went really well and the plants got in the ground pretty quickly. . All in all is was a long, but very rewarding day. We're really excited about getting the mulch down in the bed and get the rocks out of the front of the house. No worries there, we have someone coming tomorrow to pick them up. Once the rocks are out, we are going to need to figure out what we want to put on the other side of the house. But that can until we come to that bridge. Below is Cait's hands after all of the hard work was done and the end result. 

And here is the result of all of today's hard work. I know that it is hard to see some of the plants, but I assure you that it is very pretty. Well, that's it for now. Tomorrow we're going to some garage sales and the local home and patio show. Hopefully we'll find some good deals. Everyone have a good night.