New Grass!

So, we got some new grass in our backyard! It was kind of a spur of the moment decision. We've been wanting to put grass in the backyard for a while, we just hadn't agreed on where and when. Last week, I was outside and I just got so sick of looking at dirt in our backyard. Dan had wanted to put grass on the left side of our patio, but I didn't agree at first. I was looking at the backyard again and decided it would look nice out there. So, I did some price checking and found the cheapest sod at a local nursery. We were able to borrow my friend Kristin's truck and as luck would have it, the missionaries were able to come and help us out. We were just expecting two, but four showed up! It's funny how everything just kind of fell into place. I'm very thankful for the help that we received. It went so smoothly, it was awesome. Kristin was kind enough to bring her truck over, then watch the kids for us while we went and got the sod.

Before.

Ugly, nasty old dirt! Which just happens to make up the majority of our backyard.

The one downside to living in the desert is all the dirt!

Aaahh, nice, green grass!

So much better!

I now feel like we have an actual backyard. I've never liked our backyard, because it has always felt kind of trashy and not very put together. It's still a long ways from where I would like it, but this grass sure makes it look better!

Now, we just have to hope it survives the summer. Ideally, we should have put it in a few months ago, but we just weren't really thinking about it at that time. And we didn't feel like waiting till the fall, so it just kind of happened now. We don't have a sprinkler system out back, so we have to water it ourselves. We'd like to put more in. We'll see how this sod holds up and most likely will put more in, during the fall.