Sunday, April 21, 2013

backyard project

Before .......After
We are 80% done with our backyard project that we started on this weekend. With ANY home project the estimated time to complete the project is much less then the ACTUAL amount of time. Ugh! Either way as Rog would say, this is what makes a house a home.

Ben and I both knew the direction we wanted to go for phase two of the backyard, but I left it up to him to gather supplies, material and all boy work that I am not interested in. My job was to wrangle the little rascal and keep him happy all weekend. We were lucky to have grandma come over and help on Saturday while the big machinery was in the yard. Rumor has it that there was a fun bath, lots of playing, laughing and cuddling happening inside.
Good morning Sunday, playing in the dirt ALL DAY LONG


Mean while back out in the yard we had a skid steer rock'n'roll'n by none other then daddy. Grandpa and uncle Bill were hard at work digging holes, pulling trees, chaining things and giving daddy lots of help.

 
We worked from sun up to dinner time on Saturday and by the end we were dragging. Of course today came and we were up bright and early to keep hammering along; shoveling dirt, rock and clean up. We were lucky that Bridger took a nice long two hour nap which allowed Ben and I to lay the batting so no weeds could get up, shovel all the per ma bark/rock into the beds start the clean up process. Just as luck would have as soon as we took a five minute break the baby was up.


Bridger helped in the yard before he took his nap and couldn't wait to get back outside and help mom spray off the patio with the hose. I think in total we changed at least 5 times between the three of us. Of course Bridger had several outfit changes through out the day. At one point we gave up and just let him run around in his baby bogs and diaper while we finished. HE LOVED PLAYING IN TH DIRT!!! such a boy.


This weekend was VERY successful. In total we planted 5 new trees, moved 3 trees, replanted 2 of those, hauled 3 cubic yards of rock into the beds, dumped 4 cubic yards of dirt, moved a 1,000 pound decorative rock to the back yard using the loader and we all still managed to smile at the end.
 
The backyard is taking on a new identity and we are proud to say we worked hard.

Until next weekend....



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