Grass!!!

We have GRASS!!! This is the most exciting news since moving in! It completes our look in the most beautiful way...but boy oh boy was it work!!

Our first project was to till the dirt and remove the rocks. This pile was much more impressive in person. It was a ton (literally) of rocks.

 The rocks just kept coming...

We rolled everything flat after tilled in a truck full of compost (note the flag that the scouts put out--we work on the holidays!)

A view of our fancy sifting system

Getting closer...

Tilling in the evening

Another truck load of compost

 A beautiful sight!! One of the happiest days of the entire house building project.

 My favorite shot of the entire day. Estee was so happy to have grass. She kept saying all day long "All I want to do is lay on the grass!"

The not so fun job of loading all the rocks into the trailer. So many rocks. 

Our one snafoo was that we made the main patch too wet as we were working to "settle" the dirt. We had a sprinkler on the front section and I left it on too long. It set us back a day.