Backyard Bliss!

It's official! We have a new and very improved backyard!!! After living in our house for almost 5 years, we figured it was a good time to make some much needed improvements to our landscaping. Our old yard was considered to be "low maintenance" when we first purchased our house. We quickly found out that "low maintenance" meant a lot of weed pulling, pruning and sweeping. Over the years, our desire to care for our ugly landscaping quickly dwindled and our maintenance became a once-every-six-months affair in which we would spend an entire day pulling weeds. As Kate has gotten older and more active, we realized that we were going to need something a lot more functional for kids so in January we started working with Andy Gagnon Landscaping to come up with a solution. Several months later we are happy to announce that our beautiful new backyard is complete. We are SO thrilled and VERY pleased with the final outcome. See pictures below:

BEFORE: Ugly weeds and stepping stones

CONSTRUCTION: One of the biggest parts of the project was removing a portion of our existing concrete patio to make room for grass. It took them almost and entire day to remove the concrete since it was 6-inches thick!

Mapping out our new lawn FINAL PRODUCT: Isn't it beautiful!

We still need to add some plants to our new red pots but that should come in the next week or so.

Kate LOVES playing in her new playhouse. She actually received this as a Christmas gift from Dedushka and Grammalene, but we couldn't build it until our yard was complete.

Kate learned all about the excitement of sidewalk chalk. Who new that playing in a backyard could be so much fun?