Worst yard ever!

Ok, when we bought this house we knew the yard was terrible. I mean awful. Anyone who has come over in the past two years just laughs at what a mess we have on our hands. No real ideas on what we could do and we couldn't tell either. We don't mind a project and we are both pretty creative, but we also hate yard work. We want to be gone on the weekends, not mowing, weeding, and edging. I am allergic to everything in a yard, and most of all- grass. Yuck! Anybody who wants grass in their yard is nuts. I can go in the grass starting in August, and even then I can't let it touch my bare skin.

Our front yard is tiny. It's hideous. Caleb takes a week whacker to it every month and just cuts down the weeds. Everyone kept telling us to plant grass to get rid of the weeds, but I would rather lay down a pile of gravel and call it good.

Caleb went to school with a kid who has been doing landscaping for a long time. His dad does it too and it's kind of their thing. We hired Phil to come over and we went over our vision. The vision has changed a million times, gotten bigger, added more, and moved stuff around. Needless to say, the yard is taking longer and costing more money than we had planned. But let me just show you a little taste of where we are now.

It started with Caleb making a pathway up to our front door:

 Then digging out a spot for the new seating area and the waterfall that was about to start:

 Not quite finished, but you can see it starting to come together

 This shows some of the plants we picked out and the new little seating area. More to come!