Summer Project: Getting Grass

Once summer comes, we have a list of projects that we start working on.  It is a little sad because I have actually started dreading summer a little because we are so busy...TOO busy!  I am hoping that since we have a few of the major ones completed finally that next summer things will start to slow down.  I have always had the mantra, "Reprioritize and Simplify," so that our life doesn't get so busy but it seems like the the last couple of years it doesn't matter what we do, we can't seem to slow down.  I am open to suggestions. :) 

This summer, I knew we would be finishing the backyard.  My husband, being who he is, means there is  A LOT of planning that goes into everything we do.  I have a LOVE/HATE relationship with that.  Everything we do seems to take twice as long as what it takes everyone else because he is so meticulous.  But I have come to realize that in the long run it does save us time, money and heartache. 

So, just like all of our other projects, planning the backyard took us several weeks.  We looked at things from every angel and what future situations/problems could arise so that we don't want to end up changing something again or wishing we would have done it differently.  We probably (NO! we DO) think about things too much but it IS what we do. :)

This is the home of our future raised garden beds...already plumbed for watering.  SEE...what good planners we are. ;)

We have this wall in our yard and because I am so short it is a pain to just walk up.  So Chris built me these cute little stairs.  YAY!  They are my favorite now.  Also, we cleaned up our window-wells.  I don't have pictures but we painted the inside and put cute little rocks in them so that the kids don't feel like they are in a gross dungeon when they look out the windows of the basement.

The first year we bought plants for the yard, they all died.  I decided that I cannot rely on myself to water them so once we got the drip system in we attempted planting a few more.  Now that they have survived a year, we figured we could go ahead and buy a few more.  We bought this tree, 2 smaller bushes, 1 large tree-bush thingy, 4 peonies bushes and a couple more lilies.  Cross our fingers they last (and are low maintenance).

Asher thinks he is going on 13 instead of 3 and wants to do everything anyone else does. He jumps right into helping whenever he can.  I am not complaining. :)

I am kinda brain-dead so I never got pictures of the whole lawn done.  My camera doesn't work so the only one we have right now is on Chris's iphone and he never around when I remember that I need to take pictures so you will have to use your imagination. :)