OMG FOLKS!!!....Look At Our Yard!!

OK....you have to understand my excitment because we thought it would take us at least 2 full summers to get our yard looking the way that it is now!  When we bought our home back in March....the Yard and Water features and birms looked like Shizz.  And that is putting it nicely!  Let me refresh ya'll.

And THEN...a Miracle happend, at first my parents where helping us mow it because we didn't have a mower and it seemed kinda pointless for a while because we were mowing weeds.  All that green stuff you can kinda see...it ain't grass...it's just weeds! and weeds and weeds and death.  Then after a while my folks got a new mower so we bought there old riding mower.  Realizing it would take FAR too long to push mow our whole lawn.  Then We had some "lawn guys" give us their advice and they all say..."it's terrible, you should just tear it up and start over compelty!"...that seemed like a total night mare! Both of our Dad's said...why don't you just really Love it over the summer and see what happens, what can it hurt.  I was nervous because once alot of our neighbors saw that someone had bought that house they would all stop by and say...."So..uh...when ya gonna get this lawn lookin better?..sure is an eye sore in the neighborhood!" haha ok nobody was that mean..but i could tell they were thinking it. haha. So with the help of our families and Aaron and I and some handydandy dudes called TRUGREEN....

and 6months after moving in.....
Vwaalllaaaaaahhh.....

halfway thru the summer Aaron's Dad got

a new push mower for himself so we got his old one.

Aaron was thrilled because he likes to push mow the front yard

so that the lines look nice and perfect! Takin' Pride!

Sadly i think beggening of next summer we are going to

take out the "sitting water" part of this water feature.

We will leave the waterfall part and turn the rest into more grass.

It's just a pain in the butt to keep clean and the frogs like

to have a mass mating party in it in the spring/summer

and one day i don't want it to be a hazard for our lil' snookies runnin around! :)

All n All...we are VERY PROUD of all the hard work and Tender Loving Care that has been put into our yard!  We would have never imagined it would come back this fast and this great! Our home sat vacant for almost 2 years!..yeah..thats 2 years of dead yard and an earthload of weeds!  We are soo happy about how it recovered!  There are a few lil' bare spots in a few places that we will re-seed when we have the TRUGREEN guys come arreate this fall.  So that will fix those lil' areas.  But we know it's good when the neighbors stop by and are in shock of how fast and well it came back.
I think we done good.  A big yard is ALOT of work we have come to realize over the summer. haha. But it is totally worth it when you know that it is YOURS and i can just immagine our little ones out there in their barefeet enjoying the soft grass under their lil' piggies!
 Soon enough folks.
:o)