Put Your Shoulder to the Wheelbarrow

A year after moving in, we finally tackled landscaping our yard.  When we moved in the yard needed a little help. See all these rocks.....I hated them. 

Believe it or not, we moved every single one of these rocks by hand! What were we thinking? (maybe that we could save money by doing it ourselves....or perhaps we just wanted a killer workout for an entire week). Dave's family helped us a ton with moving all these rocks. I really don't know how we would have ever finished without their help.  

We got about halfway done with the rock removal and we broke the wheelbarrow! At this point I'm really wishing we would have just paid the landscapers to do this for us. 

After we finished removing all the rocks, we let the landscapers take over.  They lifted the front lawn, put in new sod, reconfigured all the sprinklers, poured some new cement and planted all our trees and shrubs.  

I didn't realize I would care so much about the plants, but once we started looking at all the nurseries I soon found that I am quite opinionated about my trees & shrubs.  Our poor landscaper was probably so annoyed by me.  Sorry. 

A few days later it was all done and I love how it turned out. 

Mystery Solved

I have been unable to blog pretty much since we got back from Boston at the end of August. Reason: I could not find my camera cord anywhere! I couldn't use the memory card because Sony is lame and makes a special card just for Sony computers. I used to have the converter for that too, but of course I lost that like a month after getting the camera. I then borrowed my sisters camera cord and I managed to get a couple of blog entries in before I lost her cord too! I have searched my house over and over and had zero luck.  Yesterday Dave had a football game and what did he find in the bottom of his cleats?

Of course! Why didn't I think to look there? (sigh.) As for my sisters missing cord, maybe I'll go check the rest of our shoes.

Our Temporary Addition

 We are now temporary owners of this little guy....Kobe.

 Here's the story:  Daves parents are building a new home in Draper, so of course they listed their old home in Sandy and less than a week later, their house sold! They are now living in an apartment until their new house is finished, however their apartment does not allow pets.  So........you guessed it..... Dave & I are now the poop scoopers of this guy for the next 7 months.  I have to admit that I didn't really like him the first few days, but now that he knows that the outside is his bathroom and not my wood floors, we are getting along much better. He follows me around everywhere I go.  If Dave & I are in the family room watching tv and I get up and walk into the bedroom, little Kobe follows me & checks on me to make sure I'm ok.  I'm not sure he knows he's a dog because he barks like a chicken and purrs like a cat and sleeps on his back with his feet straight in the air.  But really, who wouldn't love this little face?