The Orem City Beautification Award

First of all I want to say how proud I am of my cute little hubby. He's worked hard for many years to make our yard so beautiful. He faithfully goes out each morning during the summer to make sure things look nice, pulls weeds, makes sure the lawn is mowed perfectly. And now he's finally received the most prestigious award that you could ever receive. Even better than an Oscar or an Emmy award.
Yesterday while we were at work Troy gave us a call to let us know that someone from the Orem City Beautification Award Team had placed a sign in our yard saying that we had won the award for the week.
Roger is a little shy about having his picture taken in front with the sign for fear that the neighbors would see. So I had to catch him walking by the sign.
When I was at work Troy called me and told me that the Daily Herald had come to interview dad about the award and that they asked him a bunch of questions such as: how long we've lived here, how he selected his flowers, etc. I said, "did you tell them that I selected and planted all the flowers this year?" They had me going and going for like over an hour about this interview and told me it would be in the paper with dads picture. Well, after an hour they finally told me that the Daily Herald didn't really come out. We laughed so hard because I fell for that little white lie.
I can't tell you the number of times people have walked by and made comments to us about how beautiful our yard is. I always have to tell them that I owe it all to my hubby. Occassionally, I go out and pull some weeds and take the old rose blooms off but he's the true gardner. He takes great pride in keeping things so nice. My mom would be very proud of him since she bought our house as an investment when I was in high school. Then we bought it from her when we had been married for a year.
Congratulations honey!!!! Your hard work and efforts have paid off.