Well, after a couple of years of talking about it we finally decided to put in a patio!! We were looking into doing brick pavers, however we had a budget we wanted to stay within and found a great deal on hiring out someone to do cement stamping. The contractor came on Friday and were finished by 2:00. It was great! The pictures really don't do it justice....
My mom and dad came to take Abby on Friday after work so Mike and I could do a project of our own. We decided that if we have a patio, we need something nice to look at besides the big hill in our backyard. So, we decided to put a big retaining wall around one of the trees in our backyard. One would think this would be a simple project, but it really is a lot of work. We had a goal of getting the base for the retaining wall done on Friday night, which is the hardest part. We were outside until dark (9:30) and got the base done. Then we had a nice date night and went to an awesome Sushi place in Woodbury. We got up early the next morning to go to Farmington to get some free (off of Craig's list) rocks to use as edging for our front yard (another project, another weekend, you will see more pictures!). Once we got home it was back to work!! Without too much swearing and counting to ten, we were done with the project by 3:00 and were up to mom and dad's to spend time with them and Abby by dinner! I love these weekend projects, we really feel accomplished!
