April 2 - Blue

Yesterday's photo-a-day prompt was "Blue"....I had all sorts of fun playing with a fun little gadget on my new  point and shoot camera. These were a few of the "blue" shots I took in my quest to get just the right one....

I decided this was my favorite...

Merry Christmas 2012

Here's hoping that your Christmas was everything you hoped it would be.
From our family to yours...Merry Christmas, and happiest of whichever holidays you celebrate.

Here are a few pictures from our Christmas Eve and Christmas morning...

 Christmas Eve with Mom.

 She always makes us an authentic German dinner, and it is always out of this world!

 Kona guarding the presents

Harley thinks this whole 'get up early' thing is over-rated.

 Mom loved the giant coke bottle we got her - she always wanted a big bottle to put quarters in.

 Barry and AJ hamming it up for the camera.

 Mom was pretty emotional with the last gift we got her. I made her a special hard bound photo book in memory of my Dad. It was a very, very special moment.

Warmest wishes from us to you.

Pool Fun Anyone?

It was a lovely day for some pool fun with the pups! They had a ball (yes, pun intended...) and thoroughly enjoyed themselves!

I love my happy, tired dogs!

The New Front Yard - Part 3

Guess what arrived, and right on time!

 It got pretty dark by the time they were all planted, so I'll have to get a better picture tomorrow, but you get the idea.

The New Front Yard - Part 2

The rocks finally arrived this morning (only about and hour and a half after when they were supposed to be delivered!)

It was pretty slick!

Big truck.

 Big claw thingy (don't you love the technical terms I use? You know you do!)

Big rocks!

They are set in place now. 

The next phase is the palm trees and they should be delivered at about 6pm this evening!

The New Front Yard-Part 1

We are making some big changes to our front yard.  Not long ago we had a very large hedge down the middle of the pie-shaped yard that we share with our neighbor. It looked like this.

Hubby had planted the hedge several years ago, and it had grown up and really started to take a lot of time and energy to maintain.  Recently he decided he was ready for it to go away. Then it looked like this.

 Then we came up with a plan of what to do in the space... so he started digging holes. Great big 3ft deep holes! The rocks that came out of the holes was unbelievable! No wonder it's pretty tough to get things to grow here!

 He finally finished digging the holes - all 3 of those suckers, and now he is working on leveling out the mounds of dirt in between. Fun stuff. Ha!

By tomorrow at this time, the yard should look dramatically different.  We purchase 4 large boulders that will be brought in by crane tomorrow. (Seriously? Didn't he just dig up boulders?) We'll be putting large palm trees in those massive holes. Over the next week or two he'll be putting in some spot lights on the palms and filling in between everything with sod. I'm really excited to see how it turns out, and of course I'll be sure to update.