Our yard is mostly finished!

Our backyard fence has been completed for a while, but I kept forgetting to take pictures of it. We are so enjoying the kids being fenced in, stray dogs being fenced out, and the privacy that our fence provides for us. We did a combo of privacy fence along the road, with chain link looking back onto our property, so we can possible have critters or a volleyball court out there and see it through the chain link. We chain linked on the side by the garage, also for the visibility. We thought that would be safer with the little people.

This is looking straight back from the patio. You can see the chain link hooking up to the privacy fence on the right. Straight back is where we will develop the yard into either a volleyball court, or possibly for some chickens or goats, or Leia's hoped for horse. The chickens are the most likely addition!

This is to the left of the previous picture. The trampoline is in the corner of the yard.

This is the corner of the yard to the right of the trampoline.

And this is the left side of the patio by the garage.

This is the fourth time my hubby has put up a fence for our family. He is getting rather good at it, but it isn't his favorite thing to do. He says next time, we buy a house with the house, yard, and fence done! He is tired of projects!

I don't know how much landscaping we will do next year with plants and flowers. We spent 5 years working on our last place, and neither one of us seems to have the heart to throw ourselves into doing it again. I guess we will find out next year.

Let there be Grass!

We finally have some green in our yard!! After days of hard work, 45 tons of rock and 45 tons of topsoil, and backbreaking work, we have a yard with grass! There is still more rock to be moved, and a fence to be put up, but good progress has been made. Here a few pictures of the transformation of our yard.

Here are some before pictures.

This is the front yard.

The backyard before the garage was built.

After the garage was built this past January.

The backyard before all the work.

These pictures are of the workers. Hubby ran the Bobcat and was the foreman for all the rock and dirt work. He had to go back to work, so the kids laid the sod. Obi was the man in charge and he did a great job managing his workers. It was a team project.

And there was a fair amount of goofing off, too!I had some help in the house with the baby and in preparing food for the hard workers.

Here is Luke rocking the baby to sleep.

And the girls frosting a cake to feed all the workers.

And the backyard finished product.

And the front yard. It still needs the edging put around the border.

We had semi cloudy days every day they worked, so it didn't get too hot. And we didn't have any injuries to anybody. Both major answers to prayer. Now on to the fence!