"Congratulations On Your Weeding"

What a glorious day!  I raked leaves and pulled weeds all evening and didn't even care much about how sore I am from trying to run with the girls!  I did think at one point, "why do I have this landscaping fabric down here to block weeds?"....I think I grow bigger patches of weeds in my flower beds than in my yard where I don't have the landscaping fabric...it's almost like they sew miniature weed seeds into that fabric of "weed blocker".... CONSPIRACY!

Kassi came to help me rake for a while, and then Brad came out after dinner to load everything I had cleared out of the flower beds and along the retaining wall onto a huge tarp so we could haul it into the woods and dump the leaves out. This is the time of year where I walk around my yard just looking at it with my hands on my hips and Brad says, "UH OH!" a lot because he knows I am mapping something out in my head.  I have some ideas for our side yard, but it involves the removal of a few trees, bringing in soil and leveling/reseeding the whole thing, some landscaping, a little fencing, a beautiful arbor, installing a fountain....AND then hiring a string quartet to play Canon in D :)

Yes, I am still on the wedding garden idea.  Every Spring I think about it again.  Why not?  I have a husband who is a pastor and I have 5 daughters... who also have lots of friends....I have a lot of tomorrows to believe in :)  Why not create a wedding garden?  Who cares that I have never been a GREEN THUMB, I can learn to do this, right?  I have this theory that even if the whole,"if you don't kill a plant...and then if you don't kill a pet....you can raise a child" thing didn't work on the way to having children....it will probably work in reverse, right?

If I can accomplish this, I'm ordering this cake :)