Our Yard Is Finally Done!

Well it's almost done, there is still one side of the fence that couldn't be finished because of construction with the house next to us. We decided to put grass in all over the yard and not do any other landscaping for a while in order to give the kids as much space to run as possible. This has been a brutal summer for getting anything done outside with all of the rain but hopefully with we'll have a nice fall and they can enjoy the yard before it gets too cold. We've been outside a few times and they have had a blast out there! Our walkout basement is going to be great because we just walk out the basement door onto the cement pad and then onto the grass.


As you can see the Little Tikes cars are a big hit.


Mitchell found some extra boards and was clever enough to try and fill in some of the gaps in the fence. He is definitely our Mr. Fix It.

Thanks so much to our family and friends that gave us a hand with things.

We had family pictures taken yesterday. Things were much different last year because they were crawling then but really didn't move around too much. This year it was the exact opposite - they were everywhere! But I guess how can you blame them, there was so much to explore. We had the same photographer as last year and she was great working with the kids. Auntie Gail came along again too and that was a huge help. The one shot we got of all 5 of us was thanks to her bribing the kids with crab apples. Thanks Gail!

These were a few pictures that the photographer sent to us after the session (I can't figure out to make them any bigger).




It will be a few weeks before we get the rest of the pictures back.