Flower bed #1- boxing complete!

This past Saturday the Hubby and I had friends over and the men were able to box in the first of the flower beds in the front!!!!

Before the front of the house/flower bed looked like this...

Now, after 4-5 hours of hard work and approximately 20 landscape timbers the front looks like this: 

Already the front looks so much cleaner, and that is only one side! We're hoping in the next couple weekends we'll be able to get the other side boxed in as well. We already have all the timbers, re-bar and nails. Once we do that we'll be checking with the HOA to find out of the paint takes care of the rule that we have to have the bricks in the front covered. If so, we're going to go ahead and take out the box-woods, since they aren't even- and we just dislike how they look. After that we'll be looking into buying a truckload full of topsoil to fill up the boxes before we plant anything else. We're still debating what plants we'll get- that also largely depends on what the HOA says. No matter what the box-woods will be coming up at some point. 

We also hung up the hammock that my boss was kind enough to give me since she no longer uses it. 

Unfortunately, it's sprinkling so I wasn't able to used it right away. However, I was able to lay on it briefly.  which gave me a lovely view of our trees covered in cicadas.  This has been a good weekend!