Yardwork, Yardwork and more Yardwork

We've been working our tail ends off in our yard. This has proven to be a bigger project then we ever anticipated. We thought we hired it out but it turns out that the people we hired did a CRAP job on the sprinklers and didn't leave us anywhere near seed ready like they said they would. So we have been fixing sprinklers, raking, shoveling, spreading topsoil, hauling rocks, leveling, etc.... We basically spend every night out in the yard and Saturdays, as well as days that Kent has taken off. It's actually been fun to work together with Kent. We laugh a lot because otherwise we'd probably cry. We seem to always learn the hard way when it comes to paying someone to do things for us. We check their references, do our research etc..etc... but we always end up making more work for ourselves by hiring people that just don't know what they are doing. One day we will learn to just do it ourselves from the get go, or pay good money to hire real professionals.

Anyways, it has been fun and we are super close to hydro-seeding. (hopefully this week) The weather has not been cooperating either which has delayed the process.

A couple weeks ago we ordered 2 more loads of topsoil to fill in some low spots in our yard. These pictures don't do 2 things justice. #1 - The amount of dirt, time and shoveling it took to get these piles spread. #2 - How dirty my kids got for 3 days straight playing in the dirt. They had so much fun!!

Kent and I often wonder what we got ourselves into with this big yard. We never planned on buying a house with this big of a yard, the yard just ended up being a bonus with the house. Bonus or not, it's ours now, there's no turning back. The picture below shows one side of our house (about 1/3 of our yard.) It's humungo.

I'm envisioning alot of night games, soccer playing, football, volleyball, frisbee etc... being played on this field.

Here's our house! (above) I don't think I ever posted pictures of it on here.

I can't wait to post pictures from start to finish of our yard. I've been taking good record throughout the whole process.

In the mean time Kendra learned how to ride a 2-wheeler with training wheels. She thinks she is SO big.