Tina Jay Photography | Philadelphia Wedding Photographer

Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend!  Today, I am doing absolutely nothing.  After a weekend of landscaping, I am so sore that I feel like I can't even walk up a flight of stairs.  Saturday we worked from 7:30 am until 9pm, and didn't nearly finish our front yard - our front yard is TINY, so we figured it would take no time at all, and one day would be more than enough.  Not so much.  Sunday morning we had to get up and finish, even though every inch of my body was sore.  We suffered through it, and FINALLY finished.  Today, even my inner thighs are sore.  Who knew that was even an area that could get sore!  Apparently I'm super out of shape.  So this wasn't really the way we wanted to spend our holiday weekend, but with all of my weddings coming up, the next weekend  we'd be able to do it wasn't until August....so Memorial Day weekend it was!

At least one part of the weekend was awesome - we finally got a grill, and got to try it out for the first time.  Jay is pretty much in heaven.  I love this picture of him - it's just so "him" in his element: a new grill, Steelers burger flipper (with a bottle opener on the end....he says that's the best part), and Grill Meister apron.  He made me promise I wouldn't put pictures of him wearing an apron on the blog.  Sorry Jay, I just had to:)

Jay = Grill Meister.

Jay, doin' his thang, loving life:)

Hope everyone had a great, RELAXING, weekend:)

Jay and I live on a tiny little street.  It's a side street of a side street of a side street, so there isn't much action on our short little road.  So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that when Jay and I started doing some landscaping, we'd be the talk of the street and everyone started conveniently "taking walks" to see what we were doing.  Most of our neighbors have been living on our street for more than 20 years, just to give you an "idea" about the average age range:)

Our front yard was pretty much a mish-mosh of random plants and bushes everywhere, so we pulled everything out and we're starting over......I forgot to take "before" pictures - I always forget about that!  Anywho, we probably should have come up with a plan for what we want to plant in its place before we pulled everything out, but this is pretty much how the scene looked:  Jay and I, working outside pulling/chopping/cutting everything up for about 5 hours (with neighbors coming up to us making comments like "that's, uh, ambitious" throughout), then we stood back, looked at our blank yard and said, "k, now what?"

So that's what our Memorial Day weekend will probably look like - lots of planting and trips to Home Depot - so we can calm our neighbors nerves about all of the "craziness" that's going on at our house:)

These fun pink guys are the only things that are left in our little yard - they were just too pretty I couldn't pull them out!

Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend!