August 8, 2010

Sod! Glorious sod! (my knees and back ached for days after these photos were taken.)

August 7, 2010

The beginnings of getting our yard back.  Gotta love the sod.  Not so much the kneeling in the mud and dirt while putting it in.

July 24, 2010

Getting the ground ready for the new sod.  Please don't report us for our child labor law violations

July 23, 2010

And when the time came to take down the fenced play area, the boys got in on that act too.

July 16, 2010

And the garden goes on...

June 26, 2010

June 16, 2010

June 11, 2010

June 7, 2010

Apparently frustrated by the slow progress, Big Dog decides to pitch in and dig.

June 5, 2010

The boys have become very comfortable in the construction zone.  Perhaps a bit too comfortable...

June 3, 2010

The north yard has been backfilled and Dave set the boys to work collecting large stone from the fill.  Our hope is to use these to make a stone wall somewhere in the yard.  In the photos under the house, look how much headroom Dave has created!  When we started, the best headroom in the basement still caused Dave to bang his head on the floor joists regularly.

May 31, 2010

Removing cribbing piles, climbing dirt piles...all part of a normal weekend in our house.