at it again...

Well, we have been working on our backyard for quite awhile but have taken a little break. We are now at it again. This past weekend, Andrew, along with some friends, started to build a wood landing that we can walk out on from our back door. There was a red cement landing that had some weird brick coming out of it so we are covering that with wood to create a new, larger landing. It is not finished yet. We still need to add the stairs and railings but the deck part of it is done.

Here is the progress so far:

The posts are in

It's night out now and the bottom deck part is complete

More final product pictures to come

backyard update

As you know, our backyard has been a continued work in progress since we bought this house. It started out with a funky apartment/brick bbq room that pretty much took up the entire backyard and now is beginning to look like a backyard that we can hangout in and enjoy. Here are the steps that we have taken so far...

Step 1: Plant 3 fruit trees

2: Tear out apartment/bbq room

3: Restore back to a garage

4: Remove all the unnecessary concrete

5. Level the dirt

6: Mark out flower beds

7: Put in sprinklers

8: Plant grass

9: Build trellis against the neighbors fence and plant star jasmine to create a hedge

9: Build garden boxes and start a garden

(Since almost all of this was done while I was pregnant, Andrew has worked so hard by himself to create our dream backyard)

The last thing that we have had done was remove the brick driveway and concrete path that ran to our side fence. After much debate we decided just to tear our the brick since it was laid right on the dirt and was already breaking as we drove on it and just plant grass there instead. It already makes our yard feel so much bigger.

Our next step is to get some pavers from katie (thanks Katie) and build a paver patio to give us somewhere to sit and hangout on. Hopefully this patio will turn out as great as we have it envisioned in our minds.

This has been a long and incredibly fun process for us, turning something that was so awful into something that is beautiful.

Here is what is looks like right now...

Hi Olive! No more brick driveway

At Andrew's request we are going to put an avocado tree in that corner by the garage. Andrew says that avocados are the food of kings=) Royalty... here we come!!

The patio will go here where the cement pathway use to be

Andrew's beautiful garden boxes. We have been eating salad every night from our garden.

This is the trellis that Andrew built for our star jasmine to grow on.