So on Sunday, Jason and my dad and I took on the seemingly monumental task of fixing up our yard. Okay, the yard is actually really small, but Jason and I are totally and completely clueless. Like, if my dad hadn’t come to help us, we would have probably just pulled a few weeds and called it a day. But with my dad’s help we set up beds and transplanted some stuff and now the yard is not done, but all ready for flowers and vegetables and looking great. We feel so happy to not be the embarrassing home on the block anymore. :-)

I came home from picking up some extra manure and found the yard looking like this, like it had been excavated by groundhogs or something. Apparently rather than throwing out a lot of this waste kind of stuff, you can just break it up and spread it around the yard and break it up into the grass with a bagless mower! It worked shockingly well…especially now that it’s rained. You can’t even tell that there were all those little groundhog hills. :-)

While we were gardening, we found a snake! I can’t even believe it. I didn’t even know there were snakes around here. He was a little guy though and we set him free elsewhere so that he wasn’t slithering around in the beds. Then we found three more smaller snakes in the same area of the yard. A nest! Sweet!!!

This is a caterpillar that we found. I don’t know what he is exactly or what he’s going to become but I thought he was cute.

Now I have to take a minute to wish my awesome, great, wonderful friend Amy a happy birthday!!!! :-) I will also take this moment to share just a couple of the embarrassing photos from the trip that Amy and I took to Italy a couple of years ago. She will thank me for it I’m sure. ;-)

I swear to you, she is not superimposed here. It’s funny though, right?

Note: Italy, in November…is COLD!

One good one of Amy…

…and a bad one of me to even the score. haha.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY!