Hoses, Plants and Gardening Oh my

Mark and I realized on Saturday that if we wanted to have a garden this year we had to complete it this weekend or we wouldn't have time. Our June and first part of July are already booked with family (which we are thrilled about!). So we determined that we had to work outside this weekend. A lot.

So we loaded up the kids and headed to Home Depot for another adventure.

I don't know about you but I love Home Depot. I walk into the store and I'm overwhelmed with possibilities and potential. Do I have time to do them all? No way. But I love to dream about how my house and yard can look...

We filled the back of the truck with plants and dirt and compost.The kids and I put the pretty plants into pots. No pictures of us actually doing it because I was trying desperately to not loose all the dirt...Here are a couple pots we did.

Here are the veggie garden plants. We picked out some zucchini, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and jalapenos. We are gonna try straw bale gardening this year. They seem like they'd be so much fun and easier. We tried going to the Co-op but it was closed (of course it was...it was Memorial Day...we were hoping they'd stay open for people like us). We then found a friend from church who buys straw. We were asking him where they get their straw and they said from the same place we went. When he found out what we were trying to do and that the Co-op was closed he offered to sell us some of his straw so we could get started. What a guy!

So Mark went over in his pick-up and plaid shirt (although he hadn't planned that...) and picked us up some straw!

We set them inside our fenced in garden area to keep the deer away. Apparently you can put them anywhere - even on your deck if you want. But we figured the deer would get them so we put them in the garden. We're gonna try 4 this year. We can reuse the old straw bales next year and I'm pretty sure we'll get 4 or 5 more if this works out. It's just watering and fertilizing for the first 10 days. Then you plant and ta-da! At least I hope it's that simple....I'll keep you posted.

Saturday night we went over to our friends (the Bleger's) house and enjoyed a wonderful dinner with their family.

Sunday was a big combined church service with a potluck afterwards. Then Sunday night we had our friends (the Kline's) over for steaks. Fabulous time!

Our memorial day was low key. We did a bunch of work outside because I was just itching to mow and move rocks and clean up the yard. I don't have very many days to do that and I was super motivated. Plus it was a nice work out. Bonus! We also hung out as a family.

I love having a flag to wave in celebration and remembrance. And it certainly waved! The wind was insane this weekend.

We had to move and stack our chairs to keep them from blowing away. My potted plants started leaning because of the wind. :(

Even though this post is a couple days after the fact, I hope you all had a fabulous weekend as well!