Flowers

After I posted the pictures of our garden earlier this week, I kept meaning to post pictures of some new flowers we bought, but kept forgetting!

So, here are our flowers that I have not yet killed.

Mom will probably appreciate this post the most, and since Mother's Day is tomorrow, it only seemed appropriate to post it this weekend! haha

Here's one flower pot on our back deck.

Since I took this picture, another pink and purple flower have each bloomed!

I had some of these kind of flowers last year, and I just think they're neat and different looking, so I had to buy some this year, too.

 

I just love how this flower has different petals all in one bloom!

 

And then this flower pot was a gift to me from one of our administrators for Administrative Professionals Day.

 

Several years ago, my mom made a flower arrangement in an old chair similar to this.  Last summer, I decided I'd attempt to make one, but I only got around to painting it, and never filled it with flowers.This year, I decided I really needed to. haha.

The reason I went with a red chair, is because I planned to only use red and white flowers in it, with all of the green leaves, stems, etc......

....anyone catching on yet?

Here is my CHRISTMAS FLOWER CHAIR!  haha :)

There ya go, Mom. You should be proud of all my flowers! haha.

Our Garden

We had been talking about planting a garden for a while, and we finally have one!

Several weeks ago, Matt surprised me when he came home from Lowe's with a bunch of vegetable plants to get us started with our garden. Because the weather outside was still so unpredictable, we kept the plants inside mostly, but when we were home (and knew it wasn't going to downpour in five minutes..), we'd leave them outside so they could actually see sunlight. haha.

Two weekends ago, Matt got to work, measured out where the garden would be, and started tilling up the ground!

After tilling everything, Matt stayed out late one night, in the dark, cutting out the boards to line the garden.

In the before pictures above, you only see one garden.

Well, we later decided to add a second, smaller one right beside it.

On Saturday, we spent the afternoon planting all of our vegetables and fruits, and even made a trip to Lowe's for a couple more!

Here's the finished product!

And now, we wait. Can't wait until all of our varieties of peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, squash and watermelons all grow!!