Grass Alas!!

I never knew how much went into getting a yard.  I've always thought it would be pretty simple and inexpensive.  Oh boy was I wrong!  It is such a PROCESS. I thought we could just move in, rake out the dirt and weeds in our yard, get some sprinklers, then grass and wham bam we'd be done! All summer long Jayson and I have procrastinated finishing our yard due to the lack of time.  We would just sit and dream of the day we could finally go out and hang outside in our yard. THE DAY IS HERE AT LAST! From weeding, to grading, to getting our pipes pulled, to getting the sprinklers installed, to curbing, then top soil, with a final grading and last but not least....GRASS! Oh boy I am so happy to have a yard.  Here are some pics:

For some reason my computer won't let me turn this one the right way

We are so grateful for all the people that helped us lay sod.  We had so much help and it went way quick, except Jayson measured our yard wrong and we didn't have enough sod at first...So we had to call and order more and wait to finish like 2 days later. haha I love having a yard that Paislee can now run free in!  I used to let her run around in the back yard in the dirt because she loved it so now it is nice to let her run around and make it into the house and still be clean...

Gone are these days....

And oh how we welcome these!

She still manages to find her way back to the dirt though...

Oh, and to eat it too... This isn't the first time I have had to pull chunks of dirt out of Paislee's mouth from playing in the back yard...haha