Confessions of a newbie gardener: story time!

Hello world! I am a new gardener. I started this year, my husband and I purchased our home almost one year ago, by it was really too late in the season to plant anything. And to be honest, I didn't know I wanted a garden. I mean flowers sure! But the previous owners left me tons and tons to simply sit and enjoy. But this year I lost my job, and had a lot of time on my hands. And you know, anything to get out of dishes for a few hours right? Son I started small. I bought 99cent olants from HEB (local grocery store) and some premium gardening soil.
I got myself a cheap shovel and went to work removing the grass from the plot I wanted to plant in. I purchased habaneros seedlings, gypsy pepper seedlings, a squash seedling and 2 tomato seedlings. I will post the pictures of then and now. I started this process about a month ago, and am hooked.
After I planted those I sort of ignored them for a few weeks. Other than the every few days watering, I didn't really go out and enjoy them. Then the most amazing thing happened! GuysI had a baby tomato growing!!! So I took more of an interest. Then it hailed. I covered them and they were perfectly fine. But I was worried all night about these plants. Haha!
So now that I had my baby tomato, I was desperate for more. I wanted fruitful plants! I went to Johnson's backyard garden and I got 4 more tomato plants, 2 tomatillos, 2 king Arthur pepper, 2 basil, 1 parsley, and a watermelon. I got them on the Saturday before easter, and planted them in pots on minday night. By Wednesday I already had tomatoes on these new plants. They apparently REALLY liked the soil, dillo dirt, composed mixture I planted them in.
Any way, here are the pictures!

this is the plot I dug in my yard. It is not square, but I did it myself and I am proud.