The Bebej Blog: The Yard

Buying a house is a lot of work, but after a few weeks, we had to tackle the next large project--the yard! We are so thankful that we have so many wonderful people who were willing to come and help out with all the work. We could have not done half of what needed to be done without the hard work of family and friends. Thank you so much!

We started out doing the front yard which was overgrown with weeds, building scraps, and super hard clay. After a lot of weeding (it took days of working during Kyler's nap times), we got a large burgundy belle red maple planted in the front and a lot of top soil delivered. Also during that week, we had loads of help cutting some trees down and pulling out tons of poison ivy in our back yard. Even though the backyard was not finished until another month later, it was great to get some of that brush taken care of. We had a late night of moving top soil and smoothing out the yard before having a very long day of my dad roto-tilling the yard. What a lot of work! We put in some edging and planted loads of great plants before finally fertilizing and seeding the yard. We don't have in-ground sprinkling, but Ryan set up an elaborate system of hoses, splitters, and sprinklers to water our muddy yard. After about two weeks, little blades of green started to pop up, and by winter, we had a good deal of grass coming up, with just a few spots of mud. The yard will still need a little work in the spring, but it's off to a great start.