We finally decided to redo our back yard and level it out. For those of you who haven't seen it, our yard is on about a 30 degree slope, making it very hard to do any kind of real activity back there without rolling down hill. The sidewalks bordering the yard are so cracked up, you can barley see them anymore beyond the weeds and overgrown moss. And our "patio" is almost unusable with all the uneven stones and borderline petrified wood "supports" around it. So after almost 4 years of trying to make the best of a bad situation, we bit the bullet and called in the professionals.
Carlos, our landscaper, started last Monday and has been doing an amazing job. Our yard has completely been transformed in just a few days and he isn't even finished yet. But the best part is how much fun the kids are having while the construction is going on. I feel like we should be paying him extra just for the constant entertainment is has provided us!
Just FYI, this post won't be the before and after, just before and during. It's going to take another week or so to be completed but I can't wait that long to post or I'll have WAY too many pictures. So this is the first day, they dug up several trees/shrubs and took up the side walk. Timo loved jumping in the holes left behind.
The second day they pounded all the sidewalk up into rocks to use as foundation for the new patio but as fare are the kids were concerned, it was their own little rock quarry! They spent hours digging, collecting, and throwing rocks.
Then the dirt mounds started piling up and it was time to break out the shovels and dump trucks. Timo was so so cute trying to imitate the workers on how they shoveled dirt and tossed it into the wheelbarrows...he just ended up tossing it all over Cameron and me!
I'll leave you with this little teaser of our yard by the end of last week....to be continued...
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