Yard Work

For Memorial Day this year, Christian and I spend a solid 4 hours working on our front yard. Our house has been the eye sore of the neighborhood for a year now and I was not about to let this continue.
This was my first time actually doing yard work for my very own place; apartment dwelling didn't really provide the opportunity to do this. We both found that yard work is very therapeutic and enjoyable.....and makes you really sore the next day!
Here is our yard before:


This is our yard after we were done:

McDuff enjoyed helping with the yard work! He did really well off the leash until he saw Charlotte across the street. It was like watching a toddler run across the street without looking to their grandma cause they know they have candy!

Pretty flowers!

I didn't know a fence was there?!

Not only did we clean up the yard but we also took down these GHETTO Christmas lights that have been strung around the house all year and didn't work! It was not easy taking those down as they were staple gunned to the house, but we did it! Our house looks a million times better don't you think? Did our hard work pay off?
There really is a sense of accomplishment once you do something like this; I keep going outside just to look again.