Autumn Update

After a medium-long hiatus (hey, we took a summer vacation!) we’re back with another update. The past 4 months have been busy with the two boys as I’m sure you can imagine. During the summer we:

- we put in a mow strip

- laid sod (with the help of the ward & the Bair’s)

- planted 90+ flowers (thanks Dad!)

- installed drip systems for all the flowers

- planted a tree

- planted 2 fruit trees (orange & lemon trees, next to the grapefruit)

- started an herb garden

- built a new gate in the fence

- laid a flagstone path

- installed a concrete pad & walkway by the garage

- went to Ikea (twice)

- tried 3 different beds for Luke (he’s a tricky sleeper)

- put a shelf up in the office & a whiteboard

- decorated Jacob’s room

- readjusted the sprinklers (about 80 times)

- rearranged the furniture in the front rooms

- saw Great Grandma Bair (and sundry cousins)

- ate probably 10 dozen eggs and 7 dozen cookies

- had a neighborhood watch meeting at our house (they were supposed to eat the cookies but let me down so I had to eat them instead)

We probably did something else, but that’s pretty representative. Looking over the past summer we sure did a lot of ... work. It is nice to have all that stuff in, we almost have a backyard ready for play now :-). Hopefully next year we’ll be able to really finish it off and get the garden in too, and have time to actually do something vacation worthy :-).

Here’s a link to the pictures!

Autumn Update

Sunday, September 21, 2008