11 months!

It's the 11 month mark! 11 months from right now we'll be sitting at the Kansas City airport waiting to board our flight to London! YAhOO! So exciting! So, being the HUGE geek that I am, I decided we need a logo for our trip.........yes, a logo. See, it's like this...I'll have to print up our daily itineraries, right? So don't ya think that we should have a logo on the top? I think in some other life I must have been a travel agent. LOL! Maybe that's what I should be striving towards---owning a travel agency. Can you imagine? I would of course have to go on all the trips with my clients, right? haha. Anyways, I played with this for awhile until I came up with something that I like. Jim just rolls his eyes when I start talking about the trip, so you can imagine his lack of enthusiasm when I showed him our logo. I threatened him with making him wear t-shirts with the logo on it if he doesn't start showing some excitement! hahaha! I should be used to it...I remember threatening him before the Hawaii trip because he didn't seem excited...I just have to remember that inside he's excited, he just doesn't wear his excitement on his sleeve like me! Oh well...anyways, here's the big reveal!

What do you think? Of course I couldn't include EVERYTHING that we'd be visiting and seeing on the trip, but was able to get the Eiffel Tower from Paris, Big Ben from London, and the Colosseum from Rome on it...I couldn't find anything from Munich, but I think if I added much more, it would've been too cluttered. I likey... :)

Landscaping Adventures

So we finally got around to the landscaping that we've been wanting to do. Saturday was close to 100 degrees and Sunday was only supposed to get up to 77 so we figured it would be perfect...of course it ended up being 85 yesterday. LOL! We started the day with measuring our area...4' deep and 26' long. Plenty of space for flowers! We went to Skinner's Garden Store to shop for flowers...the hardest part was looking for plants that bloom at different times, plus we needed some full sun, some part-shade, and some full-shade. Why can't things ever be easy? :)

Got home and dug in...we had three current shrubs/plant to dig out and had a big area that was grass that we had to dig up to plant. I remember looking at the clock at 2:00 and thought, wow, this isn't taking long at all. Then of course, we didn't get done until 7. What the heck!?!

Anyways, here's some photos. It's not completely done, as we ran out of mulch and I have a couple more plants I need to get, but it's not too bad.

Here's the before pictures:

First things first --- we moved some of the rose bushes to our back yard. The remaining rose bushes will be moved to the backyard in the fall as I will be planting a whole crap load of tulips in that area by the house.

During picture:

After Photos:











As I said, we ran out of mulch. And I need two more plants. I bought one, but it will be too small for in front of the porch, so I'm going to plant it in a pot and put it on the front porch. I planned on buying everything either red, yellow, or white. But I found a couple pink things that were cute, so those are being thrown in too. For now, since everything is still pretty small and not blooming, I'm going to buy some annuals and put them in small pots and set them in there for some color until things start growing.

Here's what we planted:
Plants A: Mini Stella Daylily's


Plants B: Heart Attack Dianthus


Plants C: Autumn Fire Stonecrop


Plant D: Hollywood Coral Bells


Plant E: Olive Bailey Langdon Plantain Lily


Plant F: Gold Heart Bleeding Heart



And the plant that I bought that will go on the porch is a Lakeside Lollipop.



I think it will turn out cute (fingers crossed).

What do you think??????????????????

When I finish it, I will post more pics but that's it for now!