Front Yard: Landscaped!

Finally finally finally!  We spent last weekend in Milwaukee with not really any plans so we were able to finish landscaping the front of the house.  We did the landscaping in our yard in chunks because it's a bit pricey, but we had to do the front last because we had to remove a tree and have the stump ground.  We still have hopes of doing some landscaping around our light post and in a corner of our front yard, but that will maybe be next spring or summer.  At least we don't have a huge mulch pile in our front yard anymore!  And it looks much more homey with a little greenery!  I will admit though, that we have been spoiled.  This was the first time that Brad and I had to work on the yard just us.  Normally Brad's family comes down, or my sister, or our friend Brian.  It was a lot tougher and took way longer with just two people!  We've been really spoiled! :)

Pre-landscaping...

One of the hardest parts was picking out the plants.  Right now, plants are on sale or clearanced because it's the end of the season, which is great, but it means things are MUCH harder to find.  We've been to Hawk's nursery several times, Minor's nursery, Stein's more times than I'd care to admit.  We've long since missed good plants at Lowe's and Home Depot.  Just to show you how often we've been plant shopping, at Stein's Friday night, a worker saw us come in and said "Oh, you again?"  Haha.  Oh well, I think it paid off!

Finished product!

Oh did I forget to mention the family of bunnies we found?  Yep, that's right.  Brad's dad warned him we better not leave the pile of mulch in our yard too long or we'd have new residents, and sure enough!  Brad was shoveling piles of mulch into the wheel barrow to put around the new landscaping and he noticed there were five baby bunnies in the wheel barrow!  UGH!  So cute but SOOOO Annoying!  We have tons of rabbits in our neighborhood and they've already been eating my new coneflowers like crazy, so having five new resident rabbits sounds awful.  In the end we relocated the bunnies...

And here are a few pics of Cooper post-surgery.  He's been real clingy and sleepy.  He also got a card from his friend, Josie!  How sweet!  He's starting to act pretty normal again but still a little clingy and whiny.  And he still sits really fast a lot (like he's trying to hide the fact that something's missing...).  Poor Coop!

Cooper snuggling!

He got a letter!

From Josie DeLange! :)