Too tired to eat Cheerios

I meant to post these photos awhile ago. I usually put Amelia in the high chair while I'm making supper and give her Cheerios to snack on. It keeps her busy and it stops the fighting between her and Naomi while I am otherwise occupied. I was busy cooking away until I realized it was MUCH quieter than it should be.

I couldn't let her stay all slumped over so I put the chair back. The funniest part about the whole thing was when she woke up she just opened her eyes, looked at me and stuffed a cheerio in her mouth.

Some cute one's of the girls!

Okay, Amelia actually crawled under our sofa. First of all, I can't believe that she would actually fit under there, and secondly, boy was she MAD when she couldn't get out!
Quite funny though!
Sweet little Naomi helping throw rocks into the big dirt pile. The fashion statement of the day with shorts and rain boots!
This is Sable (Naomi's cousin's dog). Nice puppy!
And Amelia just being her hilarious little self. Thinking she SOOOOOO funny.

Grass, grass, grass

Our Grass is finally done. Here is Naomi with her super soccer kick playing on the new grass. She was so excited that it didn't have prickles in it! You can still see the dirt along the fence. We will be planting some trees and shrubs...maybe next year!
The other side of the yard (this is directly behind where the last picture was taken). Again, more trees will be planted here.
A view from above. Lookin down from Amelia's bedroom.
Again just the other part of the lawn. It's too big to get all in one photo! It's so green and beautiful.

One more week

Well, seeing as though the weather is not co-operating I am going to have to live with a mud puddle for a back yard for 1 more week (fingers and toes crossed). We were all set to lay new sod tomorrow, but the forecast says 70% POP! We'll 1 more week won't kill us right? Arrrgh. Oh well. I just keep thinking that it will all be worth it in the end.

Both girls are napping for the moment and I am enjoying a few moments of solitude. Ahhhhh. Wish I had my new bath tub installed and could go for a bubble bath!

I hate dirt

Okay, so going into this I figured 1 week 2 at max without grass. Well we are heading into week 3 and I'm getting a little tired of the mud pit in the backyard. When we were ripping the old sod out it was over 32 degrees, now that we are trying to level and get the new dirt in (before we lay new sod) it has rained.... This rain then turns my backyard into a mud bath (think mosh pit at Woodstock). Anyway, hopefully we can finally get the new dirt down (why do we have to PAY for dirt anyway?) and be laying the new sod this coming weekend!

No Grass

We have had no grass of course and it's been over 30 degrees every day, so we brought the kids pool up on the deck. Just showing off the cute girls!

The work begins!

So we've torn apart our back yard and have been working like dogs to get it all done quickly. The word quickly, however, doesn't exsit when it is 32 degrees outside. We started on Saturday morning by renting a sod cutter to obviously cut the old sod. Then we spent THE REST OF THE DAY rolling it and moving it into a gigantic pile.

The backyard from the deck.

The backyard looking at the deck.

The side of the house.

The same side, just from the other end.

What a lot of work, but it will be worth it.

The next day we had the missionaries come and help us move all the dirt. They offered their help, and who am I to say no?

This is the front year that we ripped up too.

Do you know how heavy a roll of sod is???

This is actually one of the missionaries under my deck shovelling dirt towards the house.

Ahhh, bare ground! We had to move a bunch of dirt to level the ground out. Will keep posting new photos as the rest of the project comes together!