Whatta day!

My mom and I have a "thing" for garage sales. I love a good deal and my mom, well, she loves our kids and buys them anything that remotely looks kid friendly. Because of this, our backyard had become one giant playground, brimming with all things Little Tykes.

With plastic, obnoxious-colored "play things" lining every square inch of yard, our sprinklers were getting covered and resulting in very unhappy, dying grass. So together the Hubster and I conjured up an idea and that's what we set out to do yesterday.

First things first, we, err Justin, weedeated (weed ate??) the lawn and tore out the few remaining live pieces of grass:


thus leaving the yard resembling typical backyards here in the good 'ole High Desert:


Then we installed some decorative border before laying the mesh barrier down.


Soon the backyard went from sad, wilting yellow grass:


to a child's dream yard, complete with sand, toys and sun:


After shoveling and wheelbarrowing that 5.5 TONS of playground sand, we did some errands and settled down to a "skaghetti" dinner. Jacob loved his first spaghetti dinner,


so much so that he thought his eye might like to try it too. Ugh.


After hosing wiping the kids off and strippin' them down while getting the bath ready, the Hubster and Brownies had a wrestling match.


Anyways, as you can see from the pictures of our day, we're really classy folk; we dig up grass to lay sand down in the backyard, feed "skeghetti" for dinner sans a bib, and have WWF matches in our skivvies. Add to the fact that there's usually a race car trailer in our driveway, and we're the epitome of high class ;)