A New Backyard

Dirk and I have been talking and preparing to redo our backyard into a play yard for Munchi for quite some time. We bought a new play climber over two months ago, and dug out a bunch of the grass for wood chips over a month ago. As projects always seem to go around here, it continued to be derailed by weather and other immediate needs or desires. Well, no longer. I can happily say after three long hard days of work (admitedly, mainly done by Dirk), the back yard is completely redone into a wonderland playground. Though I forgot to take before pictures, those of you who have seen our backyard will appreciate the change. We removed a lot of grass and put in 4 inches of woodchips (Munchi agrees it is a very soft landing!), put together his play climber, added a sandbox, chairs and a teeter totter. While doing all this, we completely cleaned our patio off too, and now it is a safe, fun environment for Munchi and his friends. He loved every moment today and I know he will wake up bright and early tomorrow ready to go play. I am so excited for all the fun we can have outside, which is where he prefers to be. And this summer we will be adding a wading pool, water table and t-ball to the fun!

The new and improved climber


Sitting area and sand box


View from our grass area


Munchi enjoying his new climber (please ignore the outfit.... we had to use something he could get really dirty in the process)


Our backyard and clean new patio (and Abbey too)


Also, during all this, I was craving turkey and stuffing (if you know, no surprise there!), so I made a roast chicken and stuffing for dinner. It was delicious!! Here is a picture of the yummy bird, though it does not so it justice. I was so proud of how beautiful it turned out!