Hot summer days turn to cold!

We had two great days of hot, hot weather this week and although some were complaining, not this girl!  I complain all winter about cold so when it gets hot I love it!  We spent those couple of days swimming and playing in the sprinkler!  You won't see Bryleigh in this picture because to say that she hated the cold water is an understatement :)

Also, this past week, we have been getting more accomplished on our landscaping.  The city came last weekend and cut our tree down and then we had the stump ground out!  Then on Wednesday, we planted our new tree to replace it!  It doesn't look like much now but it will be a deep purple color when it blooms!  

We have a long ways to go yet!  We have to remove the stump grindings and fill in the above hold with dirt and then seed it!  Bryan and I spent the morning digging out the iris's around our house! It was cold and rainy and no doubt, I was wishing it was hot and 90 degrees out!   What a job :(  We will be taking the plants that are left and replanting them in the back of our house

 We also will be getting our new White Victorian Picket  Fence this coming week!  I'm so excited.  Our house used to serve as a daycare so we had this chain link fence around our yard.  Last year when we built our garage, we had to take part of it down and never put it back up.  So all the chain link will be coming out and a new vinyl fence will be put in :)  I can't wait!

Just to show you an example of why we needed to landscape this year!  Our garden of weeds has taken over!  

Tonight we have someone coming over to give us an estimate of how much it will cost to cut down our two HUGE maples in the front yard.  I"m scared to know!

So now our yard looks even worse than when we started but I have to keep in mind that in a couple of weeks, it will look tons better!