Week in Review...

These pictures pretty much sum up our week! WE moved lots and lots of dirt this week! Our HOA is trying to fill up some cracks in our retention basins and so they said they could use our dirt as a base and then later put rocks on top. Our HOA president came over and showed me where he wants the dirt and said that he would find some teenagers to hire and do the job, I said that I could move it. All week we have been taking loads and loads of dirt over to the retention basins, all hands on deck! Even Abby wanted to help, she would help push or fill up a bucket with a few handful scoops of dirt and bring her little bucket with her. So cute! We successfully moved all of the dirt! Then I started digging more, to even out our ground and now we have another pile of dirt! haha! Luckily we have a place to move the dirt now. I also babysat 40 hours this week! A new record! Usually I work around 25 hours a week, so it was a busy one!

Rick and the kids planted a garden this week! They planted cantaloupe, watermelon, strawberries, carrots and corn. Our orange tree has blossomed and it smells so heavenly in the backyard! I wish I could bottle up the smell!

This picture shows our side yard all cleaned up! This side with our blue recycle bin was all full of dirt! You couldn't even see the curbing.

 This is our new small mound of dirt...

 Our garden!! So exciting!

 Abby wanted to help and lovingly spread seeds wherever she could:) Even where we didn't plan on planting! haha! So we marked them!

As a sad result of all of this work, I've developed carpal tunnel:(. So sad! I'm taking a self-prescribed break from digging, even though it's killing me that the work is only half done outside. It will have to wait. I'm hoping that I will be back at it soon!:)