In full bloom...plants and more!

Yep...these are the gardening tools we used today!

We have kids. They use our stuff and lose things...like our gardening shovel.

So what's a girl to do? Head to the beach bag for a high quality diggin shovel!

So here we go!

First we dig up and move some plants...hope they survive!

Ummm...what in the world?!

This picture is for you Andrea!

The first bed is finished...except for a little edging

that needs to be done by the man.

I'd totally do it...but I can't start the thing!

The second bed...D.O.N.E. (I know...edging!)

Oh...and these are the flowers. The "little things matter" flowers :)

Planter by front door...

LOVE the daisies :) They make me happy!

So I show you a picture of my front porch because...

It's bare, bare, bare!!!

I am thinking a couple of chairs, a table and two beautiful flower pots by the front door.

Maybe a cute welcome sign to the left of the door...

Thoughts?!

Oh...and I am soooo flippin excited!!!

My blog name came to me...while writing this post y'all!!

I've been thinking so long and hard and over thinking

til I have made myself crazy over it.

Tomorrow I will announce my new name and to come will

be a redesigned blog to go with it.

The plants are in bloom and my blog is too!

I'm giddy :)

It's the little things

One of my favorite things to do...

is going to our local nursery and picking out flowers!

I'm embarrassed to say I have some sick looking poinsettias on my front porch still.

My berry wreaths on my door which last from Christmas thru Valentine's Day are coming down

It's time to "Spring-a-fy" the house!

We bought a ton of plants today...

11 of the daisies

11 of the purple ground cover ones

30 little alyssum plants and a few petunias.

My husband and I LOVE alyssum and petunias.

The "plant" lady who helped us told us that the alyssum and petunias are winter plants.

She was trying to convince us not to buy them because they might only last two months.

At check-out, my husband couldn't take it and went back for the plants!

That totally made me smile :)

In fact, he smiled tonight as he was admiring the new plants in our yard.

If you are around me enough you will often hear me say...

"It's the little things that make a difference"...

And if the plants we love only last two months...then we'll enjoy them for two months!

IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS!!

More pics to come after we finish planting!

No pets allowed...say what?

This past Saturday was such a gorgeous day and it was also the Winter Park Arts Festival...which I have never been too! Hard to believe since I have lived here for 35 years! I picked up Ann's sweetness of a puppy...Molly along with Morgan and Gracie and drove to Winter Park. It was SOOOO crowded and I finally found a place to park...for $10, but whatever...I was going to be outside, looking at beautiful art, eating kettle corn and drinking an ice cold lemonade...it was worth the $10! We walked a few blocks to get to Park Ave and wouldn't you know it, we got stopped by a police officer telling us pets were not allowed...say what?!! We were soooo bummed! Ann & I tried to walk behind Park Ave to try and sneak past the officers...but they were everywhere. While we were walking on the railroad tracks, we could hear the band playing this "Louisiana cemetery" type music...very sad and dreary and we just laughed thinking it was our theme song for the day! Here we were...two girls and their dogs, walking on "the other side of the tracks" because we couldn't get in...

We ended up heading over to Brio with Nicole and sat outside WITH our dogs to continue to enjoy the beautiful day...but really...NO pets on Park Ave?? That's absurd!