Laraway Family

As you can see, the above pictures with all of the vegetation are the pictures of our patio when we moved into the house.
The bottom pictures are of our NEW patio! (The square seen against the fence on the left is actually going to be placed back under the central air unit.)
It's a shame to get rid of the plants, but it was suffocating out there and really left us no room to move. So, we took out all but the maple tree, and we'll place all of our potted plants out and put up some hanging plants. It's amazing to see that we had so much room! All of those pine like trees were pushing on the fence. The "Dr. Suess" tree with the three balls started growing out from the house to reach the sun. The ground cover went WILD! Anyway, we transplanted the SIX hydrangeas to the front, so we don't feel terrible about ripping out the rest! :) This is MUCH more functional with three boys! Now, we can actually grill outside, too! Yea!!!