The fruit of our labor...

Today was the day Colin and I have waited for for a LONG time! Other than being exhausted by all the hard work, it was a really great day. The weather couldn't have been more beautiful and stayed around 60 degrees with full sunshine the whole day.

My parents came down Friday night and planned on helping us redo our yard along with Colin's parents and our friend Charlie on Saturday (today). We are SO thankful for all the help we got! THANKS guys! It definitely would have taken forever to do it alone. I guess that's what family is for! My parents were kind enough to give us their previous rota tiller and Colin's parents gave us some money to buy some more plants. We are so excited to get these gifts!

Colin and I had been working really hard to prep the yard by tearing out Rhodie's, arborvitae trees, replanting roses and daffodils in the back yard, and getting and spreading out dirt. By the time our parents and Charlie were ready to help us we were onto spreading manure all over the yard and evening out the dirt where the grass would be planted. It took us just about 5 hours to finish and was well worth it! Here are some pics of the finished product minus lots of plants and shrubs that I still have to buy.

This is back in November. Not a great pic but an idea of what it looked like before!

The dirt Colin and I spread on Friday before our parents came to help.

My dad trying to pull out a HUGE tree root with the truck. No luck.

We ended up having to just saw the root down so it didn't poke through the new lawn.

Finally done! Colin distributing the grass seed.

The finished product. Well, almost. We planted some grass along the walkway.

The boxwood shrubs we planted along the driveway.
We didn't have enough so we have to go get more tomorrow!

Look back soon! I'll post pics when we add more plants and the grass starts to come through. With the amount of manure we used, we should have one healthy lawn!