I really wish I knew how to put titles onto my posts. Anyone???
Okay, here are more pictures. We pulled out some of the plants we had when we bought the house, they were big and clunky and ugly. We replaced a very poor-looking lantana in front of the garage door with some flowers, and We dug out a huge bush that blocked our window, and put in some trellises (trelli?) with snail vine. The kids and Aaron planted a bunch of wildflower seed in under the snail vine a few weeks ago, which is just starting to sprout up. You can see (in the picture below), our hibiscus bushes on the east side of our front yard. It has been nice to have plants and trees that WE picked. Our next step (or one of them) is removing all the rock in front and planting grass.

We went to the Home Depot kids' workshops a few months ago and loved it so much we invited the Nathan and Tiffany Williamses to join us. Now we have a sleepover the night before and all get up bright and early to do our crafts. Here are some photos (it's a slide show).