Yard work, and more yard work

I am just laughing as I read my last post about getting my blog updated. Ha! The weather warms up and I am suddenly completely addicted to being outside every minute the sun is shining. It has not been good. We are not coming in to eat dinner until like 7:30pm, and then my kids are not anywhere close to making their bedtime. Not good.

Saturday we took a dozen or so trash bags full of dead leaves and plants to green waste, as well as a bunch a tree limbs. I keep saying to myself, as soon as I get _____ done, then I can take a break from working in the yard. Well, it turns out there are like ten more things to do. Last week we got the garden area completely cleaned out. On Saturday, Dave tilled it and we planted grass seed in the areas that we are turning from weeds, I mean flower beds, to lawn. We got all of the random bricks that were strewn throughout every area of the yard, probably like 50 or so. I planted a few cute flowers. The daffodils are all in bloom. It's coming together...

We are working on getting ready for concrete in probably a month or so. We will be redoing and extending the patio and widening the driveway.

Here is Audrey picking up bricks from the patio area, and moving them to the back of the house. 

It took us less than a week to get the bricks moved, creating a pathway lining the back of the house. Now we have a nice little area to store some of our outdoor things.

 Gotta have a snow cone after all that hard work!

Last Saturday, I noticed a big raccoon in our neighbors backyard. Luckily, it was caught in a trap (and there was a fence between us). It was fun to watch it off and on throughout the day as we did our yard work. We left to run errands and it was gone when we got back, so we missed the exciting part of watching animal control remove it from the trap.