Oh, sweet progress!

We've been soooo hard at work on landscaping lately. If you can remember almost a year ago when we moved in, our landscaping was ZERO--totally blank. And as a huge pregnant woman, it was the least of my worries. This year, I've become kind of obsessed with it. Maybe gardening can be my "thing" ....

Here are some updates of the latest progress, including the awesome shutters that my rockin' husband made! We hung them up today. He is oh-so-talented. We're still planning on installing window boxes, switching out some trees, and adding rock borders to coordinate with the stone on the house, but I think we're off to a good start. Now we just need everything to grow and fill in.

In case you forgot, here's what it looked like last July.

And here it is now!

Speaking of last July... Here's the view from our house a year ago:

And here's our current view: