Week in Review..

This week at daycare we did play dough and played at the park! It was such beautiful weather, not too cold and just right:) It felt wonderful being able to get out of the house during the day! I also started watching a little 3 month old baby boy a few weeks ago and so I get lots of snuggling time:)

Abby's favorite thing to do at the park is to play in the sand, she loves to just scoop sand with a shovel into a bucket.

We have embarked on a major project for the backyard. We have a sloping hill in the backyard that takes up about 6-8 feet of our backyard. Our backyard is pretty small so we've always dreamed about cutting back the hill, putting in a retaining wall and leveling out the ground so that we have more usable space. That way we can use the dirt behind the retaining wall as a garden, and use the rest of the backyard for fun stuff and room to play. So, I've started digging back the hill. It's quite the process and we have ended up with a lot of dirt! We have been advised to keep most of the dirt because we will need to back fill once our wall is up....but the problem is that we are running out of room to store all of the dirt. This is an example of the retaining wall that we are going to build...the bottom of the pic used to be part of the hill...that's how far I've had to dig! We are digging away about 4-5 feet of hill! These pics were taken on Monday....

Our ever growing mound of dirt...

These pics were taken this morning after yesterdays work...On this side of the yard we are digging up the grass because we wanted to put a fire pit in over here where we can all sit around it, but then yesterday Rick was saying that it would be perfect to put the pool in the summer because then it wouldn't kill our grass. So we may still be figuring things out....

It's hard to tell from the shade, but we were able to cut back the hill quite a lot this week. We made lots of progress. Rick calls me a workhorse, I just find it stress relieving to work out in the yard. It's hard work and it just makes me happy to be working on a project. 

Our still growing dirt mound...

I'll try and take more pics when it's more sunshiny in the back yard and then you can get a better idea. We are excited to see some positive changes in the backyard, it may be awhile before we can put up the retaining wall just because of how expensive the blocks are....I'm scanning craigslist for free blocks everyday but haven't found any yet. As long as we can get it dug out and ready though, I will be happy:)