We've had some beautiful sunny days so we've been laboring hard on the landscaping. The outside of our house was really ran down so we've been trying to spruce it up. We bought shutters, a new front door, and we put in railing along the porch. There used to be these humongous unruly juniper trees around the front of the house but we cut them down to open it up and replaced them with flower and shrub gardens. It's not all done but it's looking a lot better.
(this is Erich pulling out one of the 3 big trees in the front of our yard)
This next picture is of the beautiful canyon above our house. It is so green here right now I am loving it. I was all excited for the good weather and I dragged Erich on this hike, but then 10 minutes into it I found a tick crawling on Erich. I am absolutely petrified of ticks so that hike didn't last long. When we got back to the car we found several more of the little buggers. So nasty!