I arrived home to find these wonderful new additions to my yard.
1. Rocks in the flower beds
2. U.S.A. Flag
3. Welcome mat
4. Tape measure that belonged to Ryan (not pictured)
I love it all! It looks great!
Thanks, Mr. Chuck and Ms. Annette!
Here is what my yard looks like after Mr. and Mrs. Jones left yesterday. These are actually pictures from this morning. I LURVE it!
When I changed my background, I deleted my sidebars and I can't remember which blogs I had links to. I hope I got them all. If you can think of one that used to be there that is not there now, let me know! Thanks.
When I came home from school, Mr. and Mrs. Jones were no where to be seen. They had gone to Lowe's to find some more bricks. This is what I saw...
HOW BEAUTIFUL!!!!
This is what was done yesterday in my yard. Yea!
In the center, where the rock is, there will be a nice, large pot with greenery and flowers. 
This is the "weed bed". Look, no weeds!
This is around my mailbox. Those are daylilies. I can't wait for them to bloom.
I am super pumped about my yard. And Mr. Chuck edged my whole yard! He went all around the driveway, street, and sidewalk. That was a hard job. Mrs. Annette had to climb over my fence to get to my flowers and shrubs in the backyard. I'm so glad she did not hurt herself! I can't wait to go home today!
Tonight and tomorrow is the sanctuary choir retreat. I have to go home today and bake cookies. Yummy!
Today, I had a meeting after school, went to dinner, and to the grocery. I finally got home at 9:00 p.m. and found a wonderful surprise waiting for me. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had started my flower bed. It looks awesome. I couldn't take pics tonight because it was too dark, but I will take pictures tomorrow morning and post them for you to see. Tonight, I will leave you with the "before" pics. Now, I didn't know they were coming today so I had not taken before pics. But I do have pics from Christmas, so ignore the lights and reindeer. You will see how bad my poor "weed bed" looked. Enjoy!
Do you see all those weeds?! It is so bad and that is in December! Isn't everything supposed to be dead in December?
Oh my! I can't believe how bad it looked. I had cleaned out the weeds, so it didn't look that bad. I had forgotten how bad it looked!
This morning, I slept in and texted Ms. Annette when I got out of bed. She and Mr. Chuck were on this side of the world, so I met them for lunch. After lunch, we decided to look at Home Depot for plants for what I refer to as my "weed bed." We would like to transform this "weed bed" into a flower garden. Ryan and I were going to attempt this undertaking, but we did not get around to it. Therefore, Mr. and Mrs. Jones wanted to help me with it. We looked at Home Depot and I showed them what I liked. Then we went to my house to see the actual space we were working with. That helped Ms. Annette to know how many plants we needed. We then went to Lowe's and looked some more. I thought I wanted a large flower pot that I can leave outside and just plant in that small area. She suggested we add some greenery around the pot. I think we decided to do a large pot with elephant ears and other green plants (and maybe some caladium). We got some Japanese holly bushes to go around the bed. They are supposed to stay small. Then I decided if I was making the front bed look nice that I needed to make the area around the mail box look nice too. So we bought some day lilies to go around that area. I will take before and after pics when we start working on the area.
We did buy a nice flower pot for my peace lily. It goes great in my dining room. The dining room has black and maroon accents and the flower pot is black with cream accents. The carpet in the dining room is cream. Below you will find pics of the pot and with the lily in the pot. I think he looks very happy in his new home! What do you think?
