Backyard Update

Well here's the latest on the backyard. We spent some time last week using leftover coupons and gift cards to start the fun part of the backyard project. We had a fun time rota tilling it and although it was a project it was quite the adventure all by itself. You should have seen K.C. and I taking turns running it around! But the best was when K.C. couldn't get it to go any more so my 8 yr old sisters decided to show him how... And they ran it quite successfully for the last 15 min. It was a good laugh.

Here's our little helper... He found these gloves and decided to put them on himself. (on the wrong hands of course) How do these things work?!

Here's another ROCK! (said aahh-K)

{He pushed the rocks around in the dirt making truck noises - the vroom vroom is his favorite sound now. He's starting to try to mimic us more now. It's fun to hear him ALMOST say words!} OK So this is what you're probably wondering about... THE YARD!

{This is just as we're starting the rota tilling.}

We wanted a garden and that hill in the corner was practically useless so we started to build a retaining wall there. - Yes the tree went bye bye

Tada! Here's our garden! Nothing planted yet but as soon as we find out what plants grow good right now... planting will happen. For never having done anything like this ever I think we did pretty good! It makes me want to go get a cute little shovel, some gloves and a straw had and sit out there gardening away.

The next project was a flower planter thing along the house under our windows. We got one fence only to find that it was a piece of junk so we took it back and tried again. Then we had to fill it with nice dirt. By the way who in the world BUYS DIRT?! Never having to deal with this red stuff and growing up on a farm where if you want to plant something you plant it and then it grows... The concept of buying DIRT was not just my favorite.
So the final result... (oh and we planted some hedge bushes too!) I'm pretty excited that we have color and plants in our yard. Most of the flowers probably won't make it for very long if it stays cold but they're pretty for now and they were practically free so I'm not complaining.
After all the fun Craig was so dirty that we took his clothes off and he played with the hose till he was all clean. I thought this picture was pretty cute, even if it does remind me that it's time for another haircut.

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