I am pleased to Announce.....

WE HAVE A YARD!!!! After many many months and all kinds of weather (snow, rain, heat, wind) we finally finished our yard on July 26th!! I know, I know most of you are thinking to yourself "but Kristin you are really never done with yard work" and my response to that is, I will take planting flowers, weeding and straightening up the yard over all the work we have done up till now any day! There are still a couple things we need to finish up like adding a drip line to our bushes in the front and a couple little touch ups on the pond but those are "little things" that we can do here and there as we want to! We also need to plant some flowers but we are going to be waiting until next year to do that.

It felt like we had another full time job there for a little bit after about 4 weeks of 40 hour weeks in the yard alone! We couldn't have done it alone. Thank you so much to all of those who have helped us over the past 4 1/2 months and especially that last month or so! Thank your for helping with the cement, the deck, the sprinklers, and laying the sod! Thanks especially to my dad for all of his help with our darn sprinkler system and trenching in our amazing rocky soil!! We would not have been able to finish when we did without all of your help! Thanks also to our neighbors for your patience in our HUGE mess! Thanks Babe for all of your hard work! There were many nights he was out there working all by himself because I couldn't help him with what he was working on. I would do what I could to help but I usually just got in the way. Thank you for all of the time and effort you put into our yard to make it as nice as it is now!

We had some friends over for dinner last nigh and we were able to sit on our deck and relax and enjoy the sound of our pond for the first time! It was so nice...

I posted some pictures of our yard and hope you can enjoy them as much as we do! We're still working on getting the grass green and a couple other little things. Trying to get the grass green is a very long process especially when it's so hot!! Nate has done a great job at getting it to where it is now though!

THE BACK YARD




DECK


VEGGIE GARDEN (we planted a little late and didn't water like we should have at the beginning so it's not doing so great for the most part - our strawberries however are spreading pretty well! I can't wait to try for real next year!)


FOUNTAIN/POND


SHED


THE FRONT YARD