Backyard Renovations

Our extremely-sloped-backyard has been a pain point for Matt since we moved into our home 5 years ago.  We even considered moving recently so that we could have a backyard conducive to swingsets and playing outside! We quickly realized that we love our home and neighborhood too much to move, so we decided to level out the backyard.  The estimated 2 truckloads of dirt ended up being 5 truckloads of dirt and lots of sod and labor (luckily, we hired people to do this!), but we are thrilled with the end product.  I see a spring and summer with lots of fun in the sun in the newly flattened backyard.

First step, the boys had to take measurements...

Step two.... two truckloads of dirt didn't come close to filling the backyard. We spent a week with a built in sandbox!

The final product... hooray!!