Sensational sidewalk and more

For months I've been going through the house and collecting garage sale items, mostly baby gear, with the hopes of having enough money at the end of the sale to revamp our playroom so it was better set up for our needs. At the end of the garage sale, we didn't have enough for what I'd hoped. We deliberated and decided that we'd use the money to work on our front yard instead.

After several trips to Home Depot, we finally gathered all the flowers, tools and cement we needed to add a small bed at the corner of the yard to eat up some of the grass and to extend the driveway over the area that currently held hodge podge rocks.

As we began moving rock and tearing up the (dead) grass, we found out that the previous owners had laid down landscaping cloth under the soil before planting the grass. This is why our grass in the front won't grow- it gets plenty of water but, with the cloth, the roots can't absorb it or get any new nutrients! This is a huge problem but one for another time.

We worked together all weekend and had so much fun doing it. We can't wait to see our creation once the plants start to recover from the trauma of being planted.

We planted all native Colorado plants that require watering only once a week
once established. Along the front ( where the rock still is) we planted four
Russian Sage plants that are doing well!

Our plants from last year have come back beautifully, even after being
moved late last summer. Now I'm waiting for our wildflowers to
show their pretty faces.