This afternoon we headed up to Eatonville so Sarah could get a better view of Mount Rainier, we weren’t disappointed. Enjoy!
Pulled over along the highway to Eatonville.
Good shot!
While Sarah and I worked on getting me started on my first sewing project in over 7 years. Isabel got to work on her own little craft. Enjoy!
She got to decorate the dress all by herself with super sticky felt flowers and trim. With some help from Sarah, she was able to get the hair on as well.
(Sarah was able to get a “pattern” from Flowers dress and hopefully Mommy can get another dress made for Flower so Isabel can decorate that one as well.)
This is “Flower” and the front view of the dress that Isabel decorated all by herself.
The back view of Flowers dress. For some reason, Isabel decorated the back of the dress more then the front. Thank you, Sarah!
This weekend Isabel ended up getting 2 balloon art pieces. Enjoy!
The first one she got as we were walking around downtown Puyallup attending
Meeker Days.
It’s a salmon on a fishing pole. She loves that bulging star eye!
The second one, a flower, she got yesterday when we took Daddy out for dinner for Father’s day.
This Saturday, Isabel got to experience her first 3D movie…
She did great (unlike the other screaming kids around the theater) and she really enjoyed the movie, along with the big bucket of popcorn and lemonade.
We spent two days outside this weekend among some warmer temperature’s with Saturday, being the first time this year over 70 degree’s, getting up to 75 degree’s and Sunday was cloudy but was around 71 degree’s. We decided to re-stain the fence since it’s been 2 years and it was starting to look a little drab. Enjoy!
Looking north east, just off the patio.
Looking southeast (and no we did not get a pool, that’s the grill cover), we started to re-stain the area just off the patio in order to plant all the new plants, that we purchased yesterday, in the ground. Since we are brushing the stain on instead of spraying it this time, we have a long way to go, hopefully the rains will let up and we can get it finished and get all the new plants into the ground soon. We did a great job today considering we got started later in the day. We got about 35 feet stained today until next time…
Today we spent the whole afternoon in the garden shop at Lowe’s getting some plants for our backyard. Enjoy!
This is called a “Red Prince Weigela” and has rich red flowers (they look pink in the photo but they are red). This shrub grows 6 ft. X 8 ft. and will go nicely along the fence, between the patio and the shed, just outside my kitchen window!
Closeup of the “Red Prince Weigela“.
This is an ornamental grass and is called, “Blue Fescue“
This is called “Crimson Pygmy Barberry” and has purplish-red leaves. This low hedge will grow 2-3 ft. X 2-3 ft. and will be planted along the back of the patio along the fence.
Gino likes it for it’s color…I haven’t decided but I do know I don’t like the thorns! OUCH!
Closeup “Crimson Pygmy Barberry” and it’s thorns.
This is ground cover and is called “Country Park Pratia“.
Closeup of “Country Park Pratia”. This foliage has blue/purple blooms and will be planted between the ornamental grass and the barberry bush just off the back patio.
This is a “Ruutel Clematis“. I’m going to plant it in a large container and “train” it to climb up an arbor on the patio.
This shrub is called “Little Princess Spirea” and it has delicate crimson-rose blooms. This shrub will get 2 ft. X 4 ft. and will planted at the southern corner of the patio.
Close up of “Little Princess Spirea”
This evergreen is called a “Mugho Pine” and will be planted somewhere…not sure of exact spots since we bought 2 of them.
This large hedge is called a “Schipka Cherry Laurel” and has fragrant white flowers. This hedge will get 4-6 ft. X 6-8 ft. and will go great along our neighboring fence along the south, as an additional noise barrier/view blocker.
This evergreen is called a “Dwarf Alberta Spruce” and will be planted along the south neighboring fence.
