A whole lot of work, but...

Well it is finally done, and it was a ton of not so fun work. But the grass is done, woot woot. Here's some pics of the progress.


This is the front of the house in the beginning.


Here's the back.


Barton and I spent quite a bit of time on ol' yeller moving 10 loads of dirt around.



Dad and Tyler thought they'd have a go at it too...



Once we dug trenches, Barton helped by eating rocks and diggin in the dirt. I put the sprinkler system in, but Dad helped with some of the nasty digging. Thanks Dad!


We finally got all the sprinklers in and trenches filled back in.


Front yard all smoothed out and ready for sod.


Here's a pic of the finished product. I liked the sprinkler flags so well I thought I'd leave them up for a while :-) Thanks to Giz, Bub and 3 awesome ladies in the neighborhood for the sod laying help!

Back yard with grass, and my sprinklers even work, SWEEEET!!!!

Well it was a lot of work, saved some $$$ and dropped a couple pounds doing it ourselves...so I guess it was worth it.

Barton is 9 mo

Well today is our 3rd Anniversary and Barton is 9 mo.

Barton's Stats:
Length: 28"
Weight: 19 lb 3 oz
Head circ: 45.8 cm
Teeth count: 8!

Thanks to Bub we've got some new pics!

Rocket Test

We went out to the rocket factory to watch the KEI test.

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Here is a tour of the Rocket garden.

Riding a BSM (booster separation motor-separates the booster from the space shuttle after 2 min), and ya he's riding it backwards.

Inside a booster case.

By a fullscale booster.

The goats

Mace loves goats, so we went down to the Nature Center to visit Jenny's new favorite pet... goats.

I was surprised that Barton wasn't even scared of them.

30th party

On May 20th Jenny and I had a combined 30th party. We had kabobs and fruit relish.
Our 30th funky cake...well atleast it tasted good.

Thanks for the hats Jenny. (Primary is now enjoying them, I wonder if the kids have noticed the numbers yet :-)

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Blessing will be in February!