The Flower Bed

I said I'd post pictures of the finished product so here it is. We are going to put a small tree in as soon as I find one I like plus do a little more to the flower bed and plant a rose bed in the backyard in the Spring. I'm loving my new yard... had missed having a flower bed.

Finanlly a Flower Bed

We finally got our gutters installed, therefore I FINALLY was able to begin work on my flower bed this past weekend. After 8 yards of planting mix, 27 bags of mulch, 1.5 yards of drainage rock, and a bunch of random plants, my flower bed is looking pretty cool. Luckily my awesome mom came into town to watch Little Man while I worked in the yard. She cooked for us, cleaned my house, washed all our clothes, folded all our clothes, and cleaned all the dishes. There was no evidence that she had even cooked by the end of the weekend. Am I lucky or what??? Most people I personally know have their families living within minutes from them and they completely take it for granted. I am not so lucky so Jon and I both thought we were in heaven with all the much needed help this weekend.These are pictures from before the flower bed and of Little Man "helping" to shovel dirt. Unfortunately it is too dark outside at this moment, so I do not have pictures of the finished product yet. I'll take some ASAP and post them. Just wanted you to see some before and after pictures, and I will try to post them soon.

I will pose for you Maw Maw because I love you so much, plus you brought me some cool toys and actually cooked a real meal for me. You're the best!

Dominick washing his hands after playing in the dirt and before eating some of Maw Maw's roast and rice n' gravy.

New Furniture...Not Happening!

I tried to update my blog a few days ago but Blogger wouldn't let me add pictures. I've been terrible about updating this thing. I have been sooo busy and tired lately. I'm seriously thinking about taking a day off of work and sending Little Man to daycare just to catch up on my sleep. My schedule was mush easier last school year because Dominick went to bed at 7:00 every night. Now that he's older, he doesn't go to bed until 8:00 and Jon and I can't do ANYTHING when he is awake, not even eat our own food. So we don't even begin to eat dinner, take showers, grade school papers, clean, etc. until after 8:00 every night.

Dominick absolutely insists on feeding himself or he throws a fit and won't eat. So we had to give him his own bowl of plain noodles while Jon fed him the spaghetti noodles.

As you can see he fed all the noodles to Me-Me and Mo-Mo (Mickey & Gizmo).

This is why we are not buying new living room furniture for a long time. Jon says as long as we have dogs and little ones, we will be keeping our old furniture. Our recliner got torn up by Gizmo the first week we had it, seriously. And now Little Man stands on the furniture with his shoes and eats on it. Yuck!

Babies R Us

We have a new Babies R Us that just opened that is connected to our Toys R Us and I'm so excited. I used to have to stop at the one in Baton Rouge on the way to my parents' house which was a total pain. I love their clothes. We went last night and I got Dominick a few outfits and Jon got him a tent. Jon has been wanting to get him a tent to play in, don't ask me why. So now I have a huge, lovely tent in my living room. I'm attaching a video of Jon and Dominick playing in the tent. They were having a blast and I finally grabbed my camera towards the end of the whole deal.








Mom and Dad, I bought Dominick an outfit that has a motorcycle on the front and says "Born To Ride". I got him the shirt, pants, and socks to match. Now I need to find him some cool boots to go with it.

The tent has a tunnel that connects to it but I had taken it off in these pictures.

Here's Jon in the tent with Little Man.

My oldest brother Tio and his girlfriend Becky are here for the weekend. My parents were here last weekend and Jon's parents are supposed to come next weekend.

My mom insisted that I let Dominick feed himself last weekend and after the whole ordeal I said "never again". He actually feeds himself pretty well, but I hate food messes. He feeds himself everyday at daycare so I'm more than happy to let them handle the mess.