Working Weekend

Happy Easter!  He is Risen!  We had a great day celebrating Christ's resurrection with family.  Jenn was in town and came with us to church this morning.  We love our church and it was neat to celebrate our first Easter back in Houston with a church family that means so much to us.  Then, we went to lunch at Momma Hance's house.  She cooked a yummy meal and even did an Easter egg hunt with fun prizes.  After that, we went over to my parents house for dinner.  Dad his his all-famous steaks and baked beans.  It was delicious!  We are full and TIRED!

This weekend, we were pretty ambitious with the house projects.  We decided to tackle the flower beds in our front yard on Friday.  JW had off of work for Good Friday, and I only worked a half-day, so we had big plans.  Thursday evening after work we went to the garden center to stock up on all the plants we wanted to use.  I had done a lot of research and knew what we wanted.  It barely fit in our two cars, but we made it home with everything.  We went over to Momma Hance's Thursday night too to pick up some of her yard equipment to borrow.

Here are our before pictures.

 The beds were in bad shape.  Mostly hard clay, so they needed to be tilled up, cleaned out, and re-shaped.  JW looks good behind a tiller doesn't he? :)

Then, we had to move the bad dirt, add in some good soil, till again, and smooth it out to start planting.  Jenn came over in the afternoon and was a great help! 

We ended up covered in dirt, sweat, and black mulch, but it was well worth it.  We are very happy with the finished product.  It added so much to the front of our house.  We picked hardy stuff that will mature and grow fuller over the years.  It was neat to do all this work and know we were adding value to our own home.   Here's the finished product!

Saturday morning, bright and EARLY, we had a garage sale!  We had half of a garage full of things we needed to get rid of and family contributed as well.  We listed it on Craig's List Friday afternoon and put out a few signs.  People were in our driveway by 7:15 a.m. Saturday morning before we even had everything out.  It was a successful day, and we ended up making enough to cover the cost of our yard work, so it was worth it!  Our bodies are feeling pretty beat, but it sure was a productive weekend!