Starting the Yard Work

Front Yard- "Before" Picture

Back Yard from 1 angle

Back Yard from the other side.

This weekend we finally started working on our yard. Yeahoo!!! I am sick of looking out at our brown dead ugly yard every time I do dishes. We split up the yard. I get to be in charge of making decisions for the back yard, and Hubby gets to figure out what to do with the front yard. He keeps threatening to put large gaudy objects in it. I hope he is just kidding.

This weekend we picked up 3 tons (no exaggeration) of compost from the dump and spent 7 hours taking most of it to the back yard to till in later. The kids all came out and helped, and they worked so hard.

Here is Allen scooping compost into the wheelbarrow. He worked so hard.

We gave the kids rides back out to the front yard until our arms gave out. They loved it. Hubby lasted several hours longer than I did.
For dinner, we enjoyed pizza in the garage. We sat on the car bench that we pulled out of the van. Man those kids are filthy. When we were eating Michael said, "You might think this is my worst Saturday, but you know what? It's not! It's my best." This was after working for about 5 hours. I was pretty proud of my little helpers.

We also planted one of our new peach trees today, and we removed most of the large slab of concrete that was buried in our back yard (Stupid builders!). It was at least 6 feet across. We bought a pick axe and Hubby went to town on it. We should finish getting it out in the next few days, and then we will plant our second tree.

Stay tuned for the "After" pictures. I can't wait until we are done!!