Sara Surprise!

Okay, lets try this again. I tried once before to post this blog and the computer said that there was an error and deleted it-grrrr......
Last week, we put together a surprise workday for my sister Sara. For those of you that don't know she is on moderate bed rest for the rest of pregnancy. Ever since they had bought their place, its been a challenge for her to get out and work on the yard due to pregnancy's that haven't gone well so thanks to a lot of help from great friends and family we got a lot done.

This is a before work pic-notice the weeds. Our focus was to get as much done as possible in the front yard. This included pulling weeds, digging holes, weeds, getting dirt, weeds, planting trees in holes, weeds, putting a drip line together, weeds, mowing the lawns, weeds, getting a flower bed together and have I mentioned that we pulled weeds?

Notice-weeds

Hmmm...imagine that, more weeds.

The cottonwood trees and russian olive were planted here.

We pulled, raked and chopped weeds here too.

After 5-6hrs of blood, sweat and tears-the goat heads and mosquitoes were fierce, and 2 truck loads of weeds, we were as done as we were going to be.

Notice-no more weeds

It was a very successful day. We got done just in time for the wind to really start kicking up and progress was a lot faster that I had expected it to be thanks to everyones help.

Oh, and yes, she was very surprised!!