Tyler lost his FIRST tooth!!

My "Baby" lost his first tooth on Wednesday, May 19th. I was helping him brush his teeth, and the tooth came out in the toothbrush. His right tooth was really loose, hanging on by threads, but the left tooth was the one that came out first! The Tooth fairy came this morning and gave him $5.00.... WOW!!!!!

Mothers Day

On Mothers Day, we worked very hard on our Patio as you've seen, but Mom came out to help. She watched the kids and helped with the brick. She has always been there for me and never said no...well, maybe once...but she's a wonderful Mom, Nana and despite our differences, I love her more! LOL

FURNITURE

We decided we wanted wood furniture for the patio because we thought that metal would scratch it the pavers up. We found a set we liked at Menard and put it on our
"Big Card" for 0% interest for a year. It ended up costing us $820.00 for a love seat, 2 chairs, a coffee table, a rocking chair and an end table, with cushions for all pieces.

It's FINISHED!!!!

After 3 weekends of VERY HARD WORK, we finally finished it. ALL OF IT!!!

Planting flowers

We went and picked out our flowers and spent $187.00 for them. We got hosta, sparia's,creeping phlox, dwarf lilac, and another bush I can't remember the name of.. :) We came home and planted them!

Edging

We decided to do edging on the whole thing. It was a pain in the butt, but when it was finished, looked great!

Putting the Poly sand in...to hold it together....

when we were done with the pavers, we had to put Poly sand in. It keeps it all together after you get it wet....like cementing it. This was a time consuming task. We had to sweep it in the cracks, and it would fall down, so you would have to sweep in more, until it didn't sink into it again...let me remind you that its 12 feet wide by 26 long....