Will It Ever Be Done??

Lane did some work this weekend on a car for a guy that he works with. In return, he is letting us borrow his tiller and helped us start digging up our back yard. When we first moved in it was almost a jungle back there, so many weeds. But we've been mowing it and watering it. Well, Lane decided he wanted it more level. So we are now in the very beginning stages of landscaping the back yard. We literally had the tiller going all day (to give you an idea of the size of this project, since pictures don't seem to do any justice. ) While Lane was using the tiller, the rest of us were raking up the weeds/grass into piles, then moving them to a big pile to burn. We didn't finish. Had to quit when it was too dark to see anything. Unfortunately, Lane left for California on Monday and won't get back till late Friday. So Saturday we get to finish this project. Hopefully, we'll get the sandbox set (we're going for a real sandbox, not the fisher price, or cheep swimming pool from Wal-mart size filled with sand), plus the gardens (yes, two-My parents made a quick visit Sunday to Monday, and my mom gave us the great idea to have two, the big one for stuff like corn that takes some time to grow, and then another one, that's closer to the patio-and door- for stuff that we'd use throughout the summer, like lettuce, and herbs, and we'll do a salsa garden!!). We also want to have a set place for the swing set, big toy, play thing, that we'll be getting hopefully soon. Seems like a ton of stuff, but the main goal for this weekend is getting the grass planted. So here is a before picture, some of the during and near end of the day. Plus, a cute one of Evelyn. Thanks McKay, Katie, Ryan and Tara, for coming over to help us!!

From a distance, you'd never know that most of the green is actually weeds...

Even Aige was helping, of course, now the whole back yard is a sand box!

It kind of looks like that big green thing in the middle is a pile of weeds, the pile is actually behind it, that is our grape vine, with green grapes that are almost ripe!!
And just because she is so cute...