Our Backyard!

Our backyard has been a work in progress since we bought the house. We have filled up many trashcans and sweated a lot. We will continue to work on it, but now we are starting to rebuild it instead of tearing it apart. We have enjoyed all the work and are looking forward to enjoying our backyard.

This is a reminded of what the yard looked like when we bought the house.

We have torn out many plants and trees. We have moved lots and lots of rocks. And Curtis has torn up and moved a million pounds of concrete. He has the slimmer waist and bigger muscles to prove it!

Curtis and I actually moved the piece of concrete below. It took us a couple hours but we got it where we needed it. Thank goodness for nap time!

Curtis rotatiled the whole backyard and tore up all the weeds. Then I raked all of the junk out of our dirt filled backyard.

Next Curtis played mule and pulled a handmade plow with giant pieces of concrete on it all around the yard. Our backyard had many different heights, but not after Curtis was done with it. Brayden helped, as he did with most of the yard work. We have a great video of Curtis pulling Brayden around the yard on the plow.

Fun Break!

Curtis put in the sprinkle system and it works great. He dug all the trenches by hand and put a lot of hard work into them.

We got a new tree for our yard. It is my favorite tree, a Chinese pistache. Brayden named it Bob. I got the pleasure of planting it. It was fun to go outside and get a little muddy.

These are some of the beautiful leaves that fell off of it while we were planting it. It will look beautiful next fall and give us lots of shade in summers to come.


Finally, the sod arrives. We were all very excited!

Curtis and two of his friends, Charlie and Albert, laid all of the sod. It took them a whole morning. They did an awesome job!



We had 2 pieces left. Since we can't walk on the lawn until after Thanksgiving we put one of the extra pieces on the patio and enjoyed it.

Below is a picture of what our yard looks like now. We still have a lot planned, but it is now at a point where we can go out and begin to enjoy it. I am so excited to watch the boys run around and play. Thanks Curtis for all of your hard work! We love you!