(the very expensive, neverending) Backyard Project

It seems like it has taken FOREVER to get our back yard to where we want it to be! When we first bought our home back in 2005, the backyard looked like this, minus about 20 huge stones along the burm (bump). Jeff took a sledgehammer and broke them all up and got rid of them (quite a task) leaving us with this:

About a year or so later, we decided it was time to put some trees in the yard and pretty it up a bit! So in went 5 maples and 5 river birch trees along with a bunch of shrubs! It looked something like this:

Then, a couple of years later, we decided it was time to put in a playset (this was when Rhyan was 3 and Mack was 1). We had originally planned for those 3 river birch trees to be the shade for a playset and it really did work out perfectly!

That same summer, we decided it was time to bite the bullet and put down sod! So now, our finished yard!

 

What an amazing transformation huh?! OH, and we added an irrigation system, as well. So, about 10K and 7 years later, we have a beautiful green yard for us all to enjoy :-) Landscaping is expensive. HA!