McHome: It was too beautiful outside not too!

We couldn't stand it a few weekends ago. Yes, there are plenty of things to do inside, but the weather was finally so nice and not cold! So we spent that warm sunny Sunday in the yard.
First Andrew tilled the area in front of the house so we'd have a nice flower bed to work with.

Then we began planting our recently purchased azalea bushes. Five white and five pink.

We also moved the crape myrtle that was oddly placed in the backyard.
Let me explain. Our backyard is great. It is a nice size and has a little bricked-in patio and a garage for all the gardening stuff and Andrew's fun tools. The odd thing is all the little trees and their placement. This picture is from the fall.

There is a fig tree towards the back left corner. Besides being a rather large fig tree, it's fine where it is. Then there's the still unidentified tree directly across from the fig on the right side of the yard. I like this tree, but Andrew thinks it is in the way of where a swing set should be. So the fate of this tree is an ongoing discussion. Closer to the house, actually very close to the house is a row of three trees. Starting on the left side, an apple tree, a crape myrtle, and another apple tree. The poor crape myrtle was kinda squished between the two apples and Andrew and I couldn't really figure out how it was going to grow anymore because it had run out of room. Its limbs were all tangled up in the surround apple trees' limbs. Oh, and then there's the 2nd unidentified tree between the fig and the apple on the left. This tree has very low limbs and is wide so Andrew's not looking forward to cutting the grass around it this summer! We've decided that even though we hate to get rid of trees, this one will have to go and since we don't have any room anywhere else, it'll just have to go. Unless, of course, someone would like to try to transplant it into there own yard!
So here is the crape myrtle in it's new home, thanks to Joe and Corey. It's doing great so far so we're hopeful that it's taken root and will survive. The rain we've had over the last few weeks has certainly helped. And the little azaleas already have flowers. All the white ones have flowers and a couple of the pink ones have buds. We were pretty excited because we weren't even sure if that's bloom at all this year! They're little right now, but healthy!