July happenings

With vacation, monsoons, and going back to school, we've had an exciting July. Add to that getting a new A/C unit and some landscaping work that we're having done in the back yard, and we've also had an expensive July. But we're getting excited about having our back yard taking shape just how we want it. We had our shed taken down, a couple new raised garden beds built, the gravel removed from much of the back yard, and part of our patio taken up. 

 

This week the trenching and irrigation work to put in a sprinkler system begins, then we'll put some GRASS in. We'll have a green back yard! (In the color sense, not the environmentally friendly sense, since we'll be using way more water keeping that grass green.) Finished pictures to come... in a few weeks/months.

The kids favorite part of this is that with some of the patio gone, the sand that was put down to level the pavers is available to play with. They LOVE digging in the sand. I HATE it. They bring it into the house and it is a big mess and big pain in the neck. We'll be putting pea gravel in that area when the grass is done so eventually we can have a playset there. I'll be happy to have that sand gone (or at least covered by 4 inches of pea gravel). 

The other day while the kids were playing in the sand Ryan found Annie's shoes. Shoe was one of Ryan's first words. He loves shoes and when he finds them, he wants whoever they belong to to put them on. But this time he decided he would wear them himself. He was so proud of himself when he managed to get them both on.

And here are a few yogurt pictures. Ryan decided a spoon wasn't exciting enough, and made his truck into a spoon.

 

 

And of course Annie, making herself a yogurt goatee. Her favorite thing to do with yogurt, pudding, ice cream, or anything sticky.