Thursday, July 8, 2010

Holiday Weekend = Ice Cream, Deck and Rocks


We had a great holiday weekend with mom and dad, and we were even able to squeeze in some delicious Little Man Ice Cream! My personal favorite - Salted Oreo.... yum!

The deck is now 99% finished - dad is going to do some trim pieces around it tomorrow. It is absolutely BE-AU-TI-FUL! This is a view of it from the front of the house. 
 

And this is a view of the side of the house.


Rewind a few days and this is all the rock that mom (mainly), Chris and I shoveled from the front yard. When the front loader dug the hole for the foundation, we realized that our house is built right on top of the old Platte River bed so all those beautiful, smooth, round rocks you're seeing are from the river that once ran right where our house is today. Needless to say, those beautiful rocks quickly became a pain in the rear, since they covered our yard after being dug out of the ground. The entire front yard had to be shoveled into a wire mesh netting, sifted to separate from dirt, and then wheelbarrowed and dumped under the deck - for safe keeping :) Mom did most of this - and to her we are forever thankful! Below the entire deck is about 6 - 12" of rocks - whewwww! Thats a lot of rock.

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