clouds and thunder

new yard
So here is our beautiful new yard. I have some before pictures but I just can't bare to post them they are so ugly (plus they are on the camera and I'm lazy). But just picture brown, very dead, full of ugly weeds...in one word..horrible! But now we have lush green grass, for the most part( we have some more sod on the way cause we were a little short). I planted the topiaries and flowers in the front and now it looks like a real yard! It was extremely hard work. Imagine me covered in dirt and sweat ripping out dead grass and cursing (literally) every minute of it. Wait don't picture that! I looked like a homeless child when I was done! Laying the sod was much easier than ripping it out. Katie and Hal came over to help lay it. Matt and Hall tilled up the dirt and then it was cake, instant yard! I am pretty happy with it as I'm sure our neighbors are also. I still want to put river rocks on the side to make a path to the gate and get rid of the bark covering in the other side and fill that with plans and river rock. It's getting there. After the extreme DIY Matt and I were both very sore from head to toe. But it was worth it and after the outrageous estimate I think we saved almost $2,000 by doing it out selves.

Evening bike ride

All my friends like the low rider...

Look at my cute pink bike!!! I love it! It rides great and best of all I look adorable riding it around my neighborhood. I just took it for a cruise tonight because the weather was perfect. Lucky for me our area is pretty flat and not to many hills. Which is good cause it only has 7 gears.



Also we are getting sod on Saturday and we are going to lay it in the front yard so we don't look like such jerks. Out grass was really dead when we moved in and now its extra dead and looks terrible and its full of weeds. So to keep from getting the stink eye from all out neighbors we are putting in grass. I will post some before and after. Hopefully it will look much much better.

Finally Finals

Well school is done with for the semester. I took all my finals and I'm pretty sure I did well. It is already like summer here, getting up to about 75 now and very sunny. I can't wait to start heading up tho the lake! This month is flying by already. Matt's parents and his sister and nephew are coming out next week I think so that will be fun. Lisa and Fischer have never been here so they will get to enjoy Reno and see our new house. I have some one coming out to give us a quote for the yard tomorrow! I can't wait, I am really sick of look at dirt and weeds back there. Other than that not much is new, Matt is working a lot more when he is on call cause it's getting warmer out. Oh we went to Katie and Hal's for dinner and their little boy Benson is soo cute and he likes me! We are best buds. They have a pool so I plan on spending a lot of time there, I love the house but giving up a pool was rough! Maybe I can have both.....

You can put lipstick on a pig...

But it's still a pig and it's giving us swine flu! Um thanks Mexico I really appreciate that special gift you sent us. Anyways, I'm going to Sacramento this weekend with my friend Jenn. Her mom owns a scrapbook store and she is having a whole deal. The weather is kind of rainy but not too cold. I am SWAMPED with homework. Finals are just a week away so I have triple stress and tons to do. I can't wait for summer, I am making plans already people!Pretty soon I will be headed to Washington to see my little Kaitlyn graduate and for my Dad's retirement party. Geeze so many milestones in one month!