Look Ma no training wheels!

So Ashton has mastered his bike. Yes Sir! No more training wheels for him! He is so excited! Here is a short video I took the day he got it. It only took him a few hours to figure it out once Dad took off the training wheels. You can see how excited he is. Way to go Ashton!

A Ton o' Fun!

Yep literally a ton of flag stone has been placed in my back yard, by my trusty contractor, ME! Talk about a ton o' something! As you can see from my face I am quite happy about being finished. It has been three straight weekends of back breaking labor, but I think the result was worth all the effort. I have to give a BIG thank you to my husband Steven for moving all the rock to the back yard, hauling sand and gravel here and there and for basically putting up with all my bossing! Believe me he tried to take a shot at laying flag, but gladly gave the reins back to me. So with my creative juices on high this is how it unfolded. Enjoy!

After excavating the area we spread the gravel.

Here is the full gravel layer. Now for weed barrier and sand.

Let the creativity begin! Here I am laying the flag and trying not to mess anything up. Basically I can put together a 400 SF puzzle with out a picture! Ha Ha Ha!

If you saw my back yard before you know what a waste land it was, if not I will throw in a few pictures to show you!

Here is a shot of the back yard before Idaho power downed the two trees in the corner, killing everything in the yard! Ugh! They were awful trees though. I don't recommend Locusts at all!

Here is the waste land that it was before we started the patio. You can even see a pile of flag stone that we started collecting last year. I am taking a load of hand split wood to the front of the house.

Drum roll please....here is the after! We still have to fill in the cracks with soil and plant our Scottish moss, but the hard part of this project is behind us!

Can you believe it is the same yard? I can't! Now on to planting, staining the fence, and so on.
Look Steven already got started after getting some advice from Bailey of course!