Here are a few pictures from last weekend’s craziness…B.T (before tree)

Nik and I, hard at work – note my rockin’ hat!
 

And here’s the tree – with all the tennis kids on our porch in the background!

This is some of what we had to work on after we finished our mammoth yard work day.

And a few other yard pictures:
I cut out a huge yucca plant from this section because I didn’t like it and have pansies in there now for a place holder until I figure out what else to plant there.  I’d like to get rid of that whole section of grass and have it be a long flower bed.  But that’s for another summer!

This bush mostly annoys me because it’s not that attractive for most of the year.  But in the spring it does this and it’s gorgeous.  That makes it hard to get rid of!

And finally, as promised, here’s the hydrangea bush that got chopped down by the kids.  Granted, most of what they chopped off did need to come off because it was dead.  But there were definitely a lot of green leaves that got cut off too!  I still need to cut off more dead branches and hopefully it will recover.

And finally, finally, isn’t my new necklace pretty?  Tina made it for me – the fresh water pearls are from a necklace that Nik’s grandmother gave her, from Jerusalem.  I love wearing it.