Friday Favorites!

This one is a little late, but we've had family in town for Easter weekend! I'm only posting for things that happened through Friday in case this week is horrible, that way I at least have this weekend for next week's post! Haha.

1) Reel Mower - Last year, we didn't have a lawn mower. Our yard is ridiculously small, so we just put it off. Josh cut the grass with the weed eater. Even that only took him about 20 minutes, so it wasn't a huge deal. We decided it was time to break down and buy one. We considered electric, gas and reel mowers. The reel mower won out hands down. We don't have to worry about fuel or motors of any sort, they're cheaper, and they're smaller. We found this one on Amazon and decided to go for it. Josh cut grass with it for the first time last weekend and he loves it! He cut our grass and our neighbor's grass in like 10 minutes. WAY better!

2) Landscaping - We got around to landscaping our front yard last weekend! I was really glad we were able to finish this before my family came to town for Easter. There are a few minor tweaks we would still like to take care of, but it's WAY better than it was last year!

3) Gardening - We got our vegetable garden planted early in the week! I'm really excited about this and I hope we come out better than last year. Unfortunately, our back yard doesn't get as much sun as we would like, so we're not sure how some of the plants will do. We also have the groundhog to worry about. We haven't seen any this year so far, but we don't have much for him to eat yet since we planted mostly from seed. We planted potatoes, okra, red pepper, banana pepper, carrots, sugar snap peas, several varieties of lettuce, spinach, 3 varieties of tomatoes, herbs, zucchini and a tomatillo plant. I've never grown some of this stuff, so I'm hoping for the best! 

Lettuce!

4) Leinenkugel Beer Garden - After a long day of yard work last Saturday, Josh and I went to Power Plant to meet some friends for drinks at the beer garden. We had a groupon that was expiring soon, so it was a great time to go. We each got a couple drinks and we got a crab pretzel to share. It was SO good! We had a really great time and it was nice to get out of the house after working hard!

5) Weekday Lazy Day - One day this past week, we decided to just relax and cook brats on the grill. Usually during the week we try to get a few things done when we get home, so this definitely wasn't typical of us. We just decided to take it easy this day and it was so refreshing and worth it! We just hung out with Bailey outside and enjoyed ourselves. It felt like a Saturday, so it was hard to get up and go to work the next day, but it still felt great!

6) Short Week - My family decided to come up a day earlier than they planned. Since they were going to be coming in Thursday night, I ended up taking my floating holiday on Friday. Not only was it great to get to spend extra time with family, it was really great to have a 4 day week at work!