Backyard

We are in the midst of landscaping our backyard. As you can see from the photo below -- it was a concrete slab used to park on with a row of HUGE trees that took up almost half the yard. We are so excited about our new space. It became apparent this year that we needed an outdoor space for our tree hugging son. He loves being outside and with no fence and only a concrete slab, it didn't make for a good time. It also lead to many arguments over having to come in so I could cook dinner, go to the bathroom or just have some down time inside. When we're finished, the yard will be fully fenced and Lucca will have tons of roaming room all to himself.

Day 1 of demo.

Day 5 of demo. Look at how much larger it looks without all those trees. AMAZING. We feel like we're living out in the burbs now with all this land :).

We spray painted the plans today which was so exciting. This is the patio -- you can see the table in the middle.

This is Lucca's grassy knoll.

Here he is running wild already.

I swear we could fence in this dirt and he would be a happy clam. He loves playing in the dirt, throwing rocks, finding sticks...it's a dream come true.

Seriously...

Aerial view...along the left will be bamboo. On the right there will be a retaining wall with a natural wood slab bench and small flower bed.

Mom -- in the upper left corner of the yard is where the water feature will be. Bottom left is where they're making Lucca's planting garden.

The shaded blocks towards the house is where the green paved stone with go. It's the same stone as on the patio but will have 4" of green mossy stuff in between. Yes, that's a plant...green mossy stuff.