Time For Dinner

Time for the Backyard

The last couple of years out here it feels like we have gone straight from snow to 100 degrees with no spring. This year we actually have had some spring, but we're now seeing the warm weather here to stay. Since our construction began about a year and a half ago we have pretty much had a dirt backyard. So it is now time to take care of that. Last week mom came out and and I put her to work from the time she got out of the car until a few hours before she pulled away. Marta and I keep telling her that one of these days she'll come out to visit and we'll just bbq and go to the zoo, but I guess not this trip.

We did an obscene amount of work and as I type this - nearly a week after - my hands still feel like they are asleep. This weekend we're doing the final prep work for sod and planting some trees, but these pictures show where we are with the backyard now. We decided to recycle our old driveway as a patio which was a lot of work. Over the week we re-did sprinklers, moved a rock pile, poured a concrete driveway and sidewalk, hauled in about a thousand wheelbarrows of dirt, and leveled each piece of rock for the patio. Now the idea is to fill the cracks with dirt and grow some thyme in between. The newer pics are taken looking down from our upstairs bedroom. I think it should be a nice look when it's all done.

Owl PJs

One good thing about the posting layoff is quite a bit of new material. Beau was pretty excited when his best friend came over before pre-school and they saw that they were BOTH wearing robot shirts! You know, thinking about it now, I guess it's probably not that huge of a coincidence among 3 year-old boys.

The Summit

Welcome back. I know it has been a long while but things have been crazy. I've spent the last month in the back yard and would show a picture, but it's still in a condition a bit too depressing to share. Soon though...

The boys are all doing great. Emmett is everywhere and still hasn't figured out that it's easier to go around things than over them. Fortunately, Blake hasn't yet realized that he could just move and Emmett would fall off his perch.