A WORK of Art, A Thing of Beauty, (FINALLY) A Place of Rest

Yard when we looked at the house.

The weeds we had to kill...look Round-up won in the back corner.

Starting the trenches for sprinklers...and to clear weeds.

Burying trenches, and weeds.

Our good little helpers.

The backyard all flattened and ready for sod!

Our garden area. :)

Laying sod.

The side all done :)

The back...YEAH grass!

So we have finally called the work on our yard good for the time being. We have little things, and more to finish later. But as of now we are calling a time out...
So we have a garden area with where our shed will be in the future. (One of the things for later.) We have put in a sprinkling system, flattened the front and back, leveled and put down sod. It was A LOT of work. But it looks good. I love looking out the windows to see green (or yellowish want to be green) instead of brown. It's FANTASTIC! We were so lucky to have so much help from family. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! You are the best! :)
So a little about the adventure...the front yard was HORRENDOUS!! Something about hard clay and a ton of rocks. Not kidding tons. We couldn't even use a rototiller because there were too many. We sifted them out with my parents rock sifter, which fell apart before we were done. We probably won't have to buy any rocks to go under our cement though. :) So in one week we got the front yard ready. Jon's parents were getting rid of a bunch of grass and told us on Tuesday that we could have it if we were ready for it that weekend. So yeah, got it done and laid sod that Saturday. We had enough for the whole front yard. The next week, we did the whole backyard. It was two weeks of hard work in the HOT sun. But it is awesome now.