black thumb

so, i have come to the realization that i may have a "black thumb". i never thought that having house plants would be such an ordeal but honestly, it really is. i mean, ferns have been around since the dinosaurs but i cant seem to keep mine alive. its unbelievable. also, my wandering jew has become a withering jew. its just pathetic. it seems like they are either over watered, under watered or needed watering. black thumb, im tellin' yah.

seriously, if i cannot even keep simple house plants alive i have no idea how i am going tackle our actual gardens. the previous owner did an amazing job from what i have seen in the real estate photos and what is slowly but surely popping up around us as spring attempts to break through; i have this paranoia that my black thumb is going ruin all her previous work. maybe, if we had one garden in the back it wouldn't be as overwhelming for me but, we don't: we have three giant gardens. yikes.

front yard

back yard

i guess this black thumb paranoia of mine all started because jesse and i bought new patio furniture this weekend; i am seriously excited since we got such a fabulous deal. luckily, we knew someone who worked at home depot that was able to hook us up with a fabulous deal!  unfortunately, i guess we offended someone by buying patio furniture too early because it immediately started to snow after we purchased it. i am hoping that the weather will be good enough this weekend that jesse will be able to assemble it for me! its pretty much a given that people will be at our house almost every weekend this summer so we figured a new patio set was a must; we have been told that people will be here barbecuing, having fires and taking advantage of our awesome deck, concrete pad and developed backyard all summer rather than asked but we don't mind. since people will be over here all the time we are obviously going to have to do some serious landscaping - a thought that is beginning to terrify me. i am positive that i am going to be the worst gardener in the world... oh well, chances are that most twenty-some year olds wont notice, right?

so, while this above photo is not a photo of our patio set it is where we are possibly going to be putting our new patio set. we haven't decided yet; we also have a wooden deck on the other side of the house where the barbecue is, so we are probably going to be putting it there for easy access. here is the set we bought:

we were debating between two different sets but eventually chose this set because the chairs looked the sturdiest; lets face it, we have a lot of heavy and clumsy friends who could potentially do some serious damage to furniture. so, this is the newest addition to the house. we are super excited and will update everyone with photographs as soon as it is all set up!