More Landscaping

Well, this weekend overshadows the busy week we have had. The past week was busy at work, went quickly with trainings and such. Jordan finished up her summer art classes and brought home a bunch of neat creations which we will distribute among the grandparents and great grandparents within the next couple of weeks. She was also 'hired' as the official face painter for Kyme's company picnic coming up in a week. We will take pictures and post that next weekend.
So, onto the real progress. We laid the stone for the patio and firepit this weekend. It took all day Saturday with some tweaking on Sunday before we could finally put the filler in and call it beautiful.
This is a 'before' picture:

Here is a picture of it while in progress on a HOT Saturday.

This is the patio laid without the filler

and the finished product:

Now the firepit is done (well, it will take the rest of the summer to shore up any loose rocks and fill but for the most part, it's done). It is great to have one project pretty much finished. Now we will move on to the front yard and work on organizing the rock in the very front and placing the ground cover down. Then we'll hope for plants and maybe buy a couple each month until the fall. Yes, we'll post pictures of that progress as well. :) Sunday afternoon we decided to go on a family date so went out to eat and caught a late afternoon showing of The Dark Knight. It was pretty good and a nice mellow ending to our weekend. Hope you all are doing very well, we love and miss you!