We're ready to play outside!

Okay, as many of you know, we bought a foreclosure with absolutely no landscaping in the backyard, and dead, weedy grass in the front. We kinda put the outside issues on the backburner while we got the inside fixed up. As the weather got nicer and nicer, however, the yards were really getting to us. We just wanted to let Nevaeh run around outside, and set Taylor on a blanket on some grass. Well, now we can! Here are some pictures of that process. I'll walk you through them, because I am not skilled enough at this blogspot stuff to get them into the right order. :-) So here it goes...

This is our side yard, no landscaping, but all cleared out. It'll stay this way until we plant some fruit trees over here.

Our first flowers in the backyard! Very pretty huh?

Our landscape team put these up for free.

This is what each one looks like, and as you'll see in another pic to come, they line the back fence.

Our back patio. There's still working on the stone mini-patio for the BBQ. We didn't want it taking up space on the actual patio and thought stone pavers would look nice. These steps lead to Moka's future Dog Run, where she'll hang out when we don't want her jumping and drooling on us.

See the flowers along the back fence? The far corner is for the Girls Garden, although Kaleb will be enlisted to help weed.

That tree straight ahead is all that was there before we moved in. Surprisingly, it never died without water or trimming!

Still in progress, but you can see how the stones will be laid out, and the stone steps to Moka's area.

Side of the garage, from the front.

Our new front yard!!!

Backyard, before it was done. Garden site.

Getting the grass put down.

Working on the front.

Pile of dirt and weeds from the back.

Garden corner, all dirt!

Yard of dirt, looks better like this than before when it was all weeds.

Front yard with old yucky grass taken out.

Pruning the plants we already had in the front. Apparently, as I've said before, the trees we had before were actually plants! :-) Just getting started...

Pruning, just the beginning

Nevaeh outside. Here's a pic of the lawn before.