Death of a Vegetable Garden & Other Random Thoughts

Recently, our next door neighbor offered to give us their gently used wooden swingset because her son no longer uses it. So, we spent most of the weekend preparing a space for it. When we moved in last summer, the previous owner had kept an amazing vegetable garden. But, since we kind of have a lot going on right now, we didn't maintain it and it became overgrown with weeds and served as a dumping ground for miscellaneous dirt and other stuff from other places in the yard. So all day yesterday and today was spent pulling weeds, taking down the fence, rototilling, raking, and using a gigantic water-filled rolling thing to flatten out the ground. Here are some pictures...

Here is the swingset in our neighbor's yard...
The rolling thing actually weighs about 250 lbs when it is full of water...




In other news...I have a new nephew! His name is Beckham and Hannah helped pick him out. The reason for his name: He is black and white like a soccer ball and to say my sister has a crush on David Beckham would be a massive understatement. He is an adorable little 3- month-old Yorky-Poo.

Which leads me to MY favorite 3-month-old! Such a good little boy! He is such an angel...always smiling and sleeping like a pro (knocking on wood right now).

Finally, tomorrow morning is my first day of Fitness Boot Camp so hopefully I will survive to blog again...we shall see...