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Friday, July 10, 2009

Our yard and the giant pumpkins that are taking over!!

This year when I was trying to make our front yard look nice, by weeding EVERYDAY, I was getting frustrated to say the least..... I was also trying to prep my garden boxes for this growing season and all of this was making me feel VERY overwhelmed! Well I decided that I was just going to plant as many pretty flowers as I could in hopes of the flowers distracting from all the weeds. Andrew got me a gift certificate to the local nursery to help my efforts... William came with me to help me decide on what flowers to get and when we were checking out William grabbed a pack of pumpkin seeds and asked if we could plant them in the garden, I was planning on planting them anyway, so we bought the pumpkins and also some sunflower seeds, sunflowers and daisys are two of my flowers and so I want them in my yard, naturally... Well the garden proved to be harder than I thought and so when I was planting my pretty flowers William REALLY wanted to plant his pumpkin seeds in the front flower bed, me forgetting how HUGE pumpkin plants can get let him plant 4 seeds, luckily only two of the seeds sprouted....... Now they are taking over my flower bed!!!!! But how can I be mad when it was Will's idea to plant them and he's so proud of how big they have gotten, Andrew and I think there must be steriods or something because they are honestly growing everyday before our eyes!
We were also VERY blessed to get some sod that Matt and Joy were getting rid of to make flower beds at their house so now with the flowers, HUGE pumpkins, and new sod our front yard is looking pretty good, if I do say so myself... here are some pictures of said pumpkins.....



5 comments:

Derek-Jenny-Kaitlynd-Ethan-Dylan said...

I hope you get some huge pumpkins! That will be so cool.
Looks good!

Sovic Clan said...

Looks great! I love pumpkins!

BrittneyandDoug said...

Looking good!!! We have chatted about our yards alot and now I can see that your hard work paid off, keep going!!

Krystal said...

I love the sunflowers... so pretty! I wish I had the time to grow a garden... good job!

Emily S said...

Um, so I will try not to be jealous of the yard progress . . . looks good.