Project : Planting

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As a joint present for father's day and birthday we gifted Gigi and Haji with some landscaping while they were out of town. Not such great planning to pick the HOTTEST days of summer from 11-2 pm to landscape... we have learned and will be much more prepared next time.

Here are the two pictures that we put in their card. Meet their lawn care crew...

Luckily, the yard gets some nice shade on one side so the kiddos played there while we worked on the flowers. Hooray for swimming and Tupperware... BEST INVENTION EVER. (Gigi, if you are reading this I did wash your Tupperware before I put it back as I am almost positive that Gabriel peed in the pool :)

Apparently, Gabe thought the penguin needed to cool off too.

1/3 of the way through pulling weeds and three glasses of water later...

I am sure that Kelly is probably cursing my name at this point because he is doing all the work while I was taking pictures...but hey, we have to document our progress right?

Our pretty flowers that we were promised could handle intense direct sunlight all day...

Post weed/grass pulling we took a nice cool lunch break inside with a little bit of Aladdin for our viewing pleasure and some serenading from the youngest May child... nice finger placement Gabriel--- I like what I see.
Finally the almost finished product. I say almost because...

as it turns out you need to water new plants EVERY DAY in 100+ degree heat...again, things we will know for next week when we replant the whole back row. Why is it the expensive flowers always die first?

Stay tuned for round two of project planting!