Trying to turn a brown thumb into a green one

Justin and I are pooped! We have been working today in the yard to get our house ready for Chasen's birthday party! If I knew that we were going to put this much work into it, I might have decided to celebrate at Chuck-E-Cheese instead! We are putting more time and effort doing yard work/finishing house projects than actually preparing for the party. Though don't get me wrong, I think we'll still put on a nice show. Today we finally said "I'm done!!" with our weed gardens. We bought some landscaping fabric mesh, laid that in our gardens, and covered it with red mulch. We thought mulch would be the cheapest ground cover. I'm glad we went with it instead of rocks. We ended up needing 3 times as much mulch as we anticipated! We will have to make a third trip to Lowe's to finish up all that we have started so far. We will post pictures of our beautiful yard the day of the party so you can see all the fun the kids are having.

On another topic, thank you those who posted on our blog. It makes us so happy when people comment! It means you like us, you really like us! So, the ultrasound technician thinks we are going to have a girl. It won't be 100% for three more weeks, but she was pretty positive about her prediction. Justin is happy, he really wanted a girl. Of course if it ends up being a boy, I will have to come back and edit this blog!!