Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The front yard and playing outside

Ava loves to play outside! So, I took a few pictures of her playing in the yard yesterday. I also took some of our flowers we planted this year. We, are trying to finish up our front yard, we still have a few things to do, but I like how it's turning out! We don't know very much about plants and flowers, so this is a learning experience for us. I just want color, I love color in yards!


Charlee loves to play outside too!




Our front planter, right underneath our front window as your walking up to our door. I know the flowers and things are very random...this is kind of a trial year for us. Next spring we will have a better idea of what grows well and what we like. So far, some things have grown really well and others have not. We are excited for the Japanese Maple in the back corner to grow though!

The planter in the bottom corner of the yard. We are happy with the Birch Trees. We are still trying to figure out what to plant around them.

One of my favorites, right up by our front door. Can't remember the name of it though, I'm really bad about that. I'm sure some of you reading this will probably know, I think it's a fairly common flower.

Another one I really like, I love the purple!



This is our house. I figured I better take a couple of pictures of it now. We are getting ready to change the siding and paint it. Hoping that it will help it look more updated. We hate the siding it has now, very 70's. And it can definitly use a new paint job!



We still have a few things to do in the front yard, a few weeds that keep coming back...argh! But, I really like how it's turning out, and I think when the new siding is up and it's all painted it will look really nice! Next is the backyard....that is going to be a BIG job!! Probably won't be finished until next spring, we need to save up a while. I'm going try to take pictures as we go, I didn't do that with the front yard, so I don't have any before pictures...it was pretty run down when we first moved in.
That's all for now, I haven't blogged in a while, so I figured I better get something up. Hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of their summers!

2 comments:

Lisa said...

It is looking good. Good luck with the flowers.

Kristin Rose said...

I have never seen pictures of your house before. It is nice Tiffany. I like your choice of flowers. A little color is always fun to enjoy in the spring and summer.