A Well Spent Weekend!

My favorite show on DIY network, back when we had cable, was Yard Crashers with Ahmed Hassan.

I dream of running into him and Home Depot or Lowe's and ending up with a yard the neighbors will envy! Well a girl can only wait so long! We started without Ahmed this weekend! My dad was kind enough to drop 10 tons of lovely topsoil in my driveway on Thursday night. Sir house and I took off Sat-Tuesday to get some things done around the ugly little house.  Sir and I do not own a wheel barrow. Borrowing tools from your parents is a big money saver when you're a new home owner but sometimes repairs are required. The handles on my dad's wheel barrow were rotted out so the day started with a trip to Lowe's. We picked up handles for the wheel barrow. Dad guessed we'd need some new bolts as well so we grabbed those, two bags of grass seed for our Scott's Snap spreader (which I love!)

Two gallons of the white paint that I decided would be the trim, door, and ceiling color throughout the house and a handful of other things. Off to the house we went. Actually off to the house they went. I had to get a haircut! I arrived back at the house to find dad and sir still tinkering with the wheel barrow. It wasn't long before our awesome neighbor handed over his wheel barrow with the sentiment of "I ain't pushin' it!"  Lol really our neighbors are great and I couldn't ask this man to help us move 10 tons of dirt. With Sir's dad's  wheel barrow and the neighbor's we got moving!

We covered about a quarter of the yard and then we decided that the swing set needed to come down.

It was in the way, of no use, and no one wanted to buy it no matter how long it sat on Craig's list. Sir's dad had begged us to save the wood and repurpose it.

I was very skeptical, what could we possibly use it for? Well we did use it! On Monday we built a raised garden bed!

It's not much but it's enough to house the plants the Sir's dad gave us until we have places for them next year! We spread the rest of the topsoil and seeded. 

There were a few more things we got done this weekend but that was the bulk of the work! I'm excited to have everything moving now!