Was last weekend beautiful here in Victoria, or what?

It's weekends like the one we just had that makes my love for this city grow (which is a long time coming ;). Saturday, Sunday, Monday, were all beautiful sunny and warm…well, warm-ish ;)

We had a pretty full weekend which was nice. We've been plugging away at our backyard garden. Our poor grass is pretty worse for wear. Patrick has been working away at re-seeding it, but with two doggies trampling through it, it will be a bit of a process. Our neighbour on the left side of us just installed brand new sod - which looks *so nice…and our neighbours to the right have a pretty nice yard to begin with…I think they might be perfectionists though (yes, I'm talking about you Andre!) - this is the same neighbour whose house is *always spotless :P

The actual garden beds are pretty much ready…man do we ever have a lot of clay! We've been adding new topsoil and mulch to make it a little more home-y for our future flowers. So far we've added two round boxwood plants and 4 Camilla plants. The boxwoods weren't in the original plan, but when we saw them we though they looked so nice. I also learned that camillas flower in early spring (sometimes between February and March in certain climates or "zones"…likely ones similar to ours). Which means we might not get any blooms on them this year :( They don't have any buds on them now, so I'm not overly hopeful we'll see any. The foliage is a nice addition to the garden, although I will admit they are baby camillas.

We also purchased 6 rose plants. They have yet to go in as we're holding out until Costco has more garden stuff (it *just* opened). If Costco has something we like better, we'll be returning the roses…

I'll post some "in progress" pics when our lawn doesn't look like a disaster zone.

Patrick also finished up the stone patio addition, and it looks GREAT! I'm so proud of the great job he did. He actually ended up laying the stone twice as the first go around wasn't the most even and after a few days we noticed the stones had settled a little askew.

In other weekend news, we went to Yorkie Island! What the heck is Yorkie Island you ask…well…here is hubby's drawing if it:



Yes, my husband is a 27 year old banker, not a 4 year old kindergartener…lol I hope it's giving you a big of a laugh as it gave me ;) He emailed Meg and I this drawing Friday in preparation for our voyage over the weekend - this was his way of "gearing us up"…lol. Unfortunately the boat he's building is still not ready. Instead, we used his inflatable boat and his new electric boat motor, it worked like a charm!

Here are some pics of our "Adventure To Yorkie Island":

Beau and Bella ready for the voyage:


Here Bella is on the boat heading to Yorkie Island:


Bella and Beau have landed:


Bella is free! Yorkie Island is small enough that Bella can roam around without her leash…I think she was in doggie heaven!:


Meg and Patrick get ready for lunch:


Isn't Beau a cutie:


Whatcha looking at Ma?:


The whole famn damily:


Patrick and Beau's trickory…don't leave us stranded on this dang island!:


Ready to set sail to the mainland…err…at least to a bigger island anyway:


Doggie Overboard!!! Thank goodness Meg was there to save the day and scoop Bella back into the boat…


Jumping overboard didn't even seem to faze Bella…:


Hope you enjoyed the pics - have a Hippity Hoppity Easter everyone!!!