Mary Mary quite contrary...how does your garden grow?

Since the weather was nice this weekend, we decided to do some hard work...I mean yard work. Granted I am not the hugest fan of manual labor, it was so nice to have a finished product look so good, and we were very proud of our efforts. I must say that we were a little stiff this morning after Brian dug around 20 holes (in which we found brick, tile, and other challenging things that broke our shovel) and I proceeded to plant the plants. I carried 11, 40 pound bags of potting soil from the truck to the garden...which adds up to 440 pounds! Here are the plants all laid out, we have feather reed grass in the back, day lillys in the front, firepower nandina, hydrangea, and a crate myrtle tree.
I laid out the covering and then placed an X where the plants go and planted them!
Here is our little gardener. She helped us so much by taking good long naps and playing in her pack and play while we worked.
Here is the finished project! Yes! Brian said that we were going to try and knock out the other side of the house next weekend.....I am not so sure!
Payton has loved crawling over to our hog by the front door and pulling up on him. It is perfect because he is just the right size for her! She loves looking out the window to see what is happening in the outside world!