A Finished Front Yard

This is our House. The house that we bought and the house that we moved into. I wish, wish, wish that I would have taken a picture of it from the front the day that we moved in. Or at least when the snow had melted and before we did anything to it. Ryan started working on it almost immediately and we literally have not stopped since.

As much as I want to, I will not complain about the constant work we have put into our house because today is a happy day! I think we can officially say that we have finished landscaping our front yard.

Now if you have ever landscaped a yard you will know and agree with me that it is a daunting task. But if you have ever, not only landscaped that yard but transformed it from a previous disaster than you will know what we have been through.

When we moved into our house the ground was covered in 3 ft of snow, which was our first mistake. I think we were naive being from AZ, not to wait to buy a house until spring at least, oh well. What we did know was that their was a Old Cotton wood tree that had been half way cut down. By that I mean that all the tops were cut off and all that was left was 3, 12ft stumps. There were also 3 pine trees, 1 apple tree and about 10,000 rocks. Apparently the previous owners loved rocks and everywhere they went they brought rocks back home and threw them in the front yard.

Well, to make a long story short we cut down all the trees, removed the stumps (a story in itself), removed all the rocks, planted new trees, removed more rocks because for some reason our yard breeds rocks, brought in fill dirt, planted grass, grew grass, picked weeds, created flower beds, planted perennials, added mulch mix and so much more. Writing this list doesn't even do Justice to the work that was preformed.

I guess the main point is that it is pretty much done and I think it looks great. My neighbors probably think I'm crazy because I will just go out ant look at my new flowers and stand at the edge of the grass and look at the overall effect. But I think I am just proud because we defiantly have made something beautiful out of something that most people didn't think had a chance. Now we just have to finish everything else.