See it?

We found some baby grass this weekend in the backyard! Actually, Kris found it-but it's there! It's finally starting to come in! I tried to take a picture, but it was so small that it didn't turn out. Doesn't matter. It's there. I promise.

Check it off the damn list!

Saturday morning was sprinkler and seed day. We are DONE with our yard! Now, we wait. Hopefully grass will grow. It’s been two whole days and I am annoyed that there is still no green back there. This will definitely help to teach me some patience.

Trips I made to ABC plumbing for random sprinkler parts=25,003

Times Kenny called me a F-ing retard=1

Leaks Kenny had to fix in the crawl space=3

Total number of hours our entire house smelled like poop because of the topsoil=48 and counting

Times I whined about helping=Way more than I should have

Total number of times I went into the crawl space=0 (I will not go in that place……scary)

Number of times I swept the kitchen floor=3 before realizing that it would keep getting messed up-just leave it

Times I want to redo a yard again in my lifetime=0

Number of mac-n-cheese snacks consumed from Sonic=6 (Have you tried them? They are FRIED mac-n-cheese and they are TO DIE FOR)

First of many bumps in the road

So, today we started on the backyard. I will make what is sofar a very long day and very long story, kindof short. Kenny, Patrick, and Jeff began at 8am this morning. We had a 20 yard dumpster in the front of the house and Patrick's tractor was ready and willing. 1st dumpster, filled. Tried to call Waste Management to pick up/empty/bring back. Closed on the weekends. Grrreeeeat. Called anyone we could think of and finally got a hold of a guy who sounded less than pleased with what we were asking him to do. Filled dumpster gone. New dumpster delivered. Awesome-now we can get everything done. Wrong. 2nd dumpster filled. Now, ofcourse no one will answer their phones, so we are done with concrete until Monday. Slight glitch in the plan. Forms were supposed to go in on Monday for the new concrete. That is now pushed back to Tuesday. Old fence is currently sitting half torn down and blowing in the wind. Three people have been injured by the tractor. I have made two successful meals. The girls have been shaking out of fear all day. Can't wait to do it all again tomorrow. Have I mentioned how pleased I will be when this stupid project is done?

Yes, that second picture is the tractor heading directly toward the house...and me. I was terrified when they were doing that. I could just imagine them running straight through the sliding glass door. I closed the blinds-problem solved.

From drab to fab, hopefully

(Before Pictures-Duh)

So, we are going to start on our backyard this weekend. I cannot even explain what a chore this is going to be! Basically, we have to completely start from scratch. Yes, the house has been there since 1979, but someone, somewhere decided to give up on the backyard and everything went downhill from there. I know a lot of people do landscaping and upgrade their yards, but I really feel like we got the short end of the stick on this one. There are random rocks and plastic sheeting where it used to be completely rocked. There were sprinklers at one point, until someone decided to close off the area where the pipes came out from the crawl space. Completely sealed. The fence on the left is falling over (do NOT even get me started on that conversation with my neighbor). Oh, and our yard slopes the wrong way. Yes, we have to make our yard go in a different direction-piece of cake. Kenny and Patrick jackhammered every piece of cement on our property on Wednesday. We are saving about $4000 by doing this part ourselves. The new concrete comes next week. Kenny says they put 12 hours in on it. He lies. He said, that together, him and Patrick worked about 6 hours on it=12 hours total. Whatever. I am pretty sure that is not how that works. So, this weekend, Patrick is bringing his tractor to our house and all the concrete is going to be put in the 20 yard dumpster that is currently sitting in front of our house.
I, myself, really cannot do much, so I have taken on the role of Stepford wife. I will cook and clean up after the boys and make sure everyone has a beverage at all times.

If anyone wants to help, you know where we will be...