Ohhh sweet honey and the bee!

I love my job and the hilarious things kids say.  One of my favorite sayings, taken from an 8-year-old fella last year is "Oh sweet honey and the bee!"

You can use it two ways.
1.  "OH sweet honey and the bee!" - meaning- "good grief" or "that's ridiculous!" or "UGH!"
2.  "Ohhhh sweet honey and the bee!" -meaning- "YAY!" or "Finally!" or "hip-hip-hooray!"

This week I have been saying "Ohhhhh sweet honey and the bee" because we are got our landscaping done!!  I am SO excited about it finally being completed, it was a crazy project!

We have been in our house for a year and three months.  We have quite a large area that has needed serious help.  It's so bad, that I mowed the flower beds because there was so much grass growing in them!  It's a bit embarrassing, but we've had lots of parties, get togethers, a baby shower, and family and friends in and out of here anyway! If your friends can't love you with bad landscaping, well then, they aren't really friends! :)

To begin our landscaping journey we needed a french drain, and that was completed a couple of weeks ago.  Friday afternoon a dump truck brought a load of top soil, Nate Lopez (our landscape architect and friend) brought a trailer full of plants, trees, bushes, and my brother picked up a ton of landscaping rocks.

I took some before pictures:

 notice the extra lovely strip of dirt from digging the french drain line

 sad looking, pretty much non-existant flower beds

so here we go......

 landscaping under the full moon!  

 working hard!

 my red bud tree going in!  yay!

 progress....

 i have "butterfly bushes" and we had tons of butterflies immediately, i love them!  

much better!

 my new hobby now is watering the flowers, i feel like my mother. " I gotta go out and water my plants...." :)

Doing landscaping in mid-July wasn't the smartest thing ever, but it's done, so we are happy!