Independence Day!

  On Sunday we BBQ-ed!

We had chicken shishkabobs, grilled pineapple & mushrooms, oven roasted red potatoes, corn on the cob,  jello jigglers, and topped it all off with homemade strawberry ice cream!

It was YUM!

 

 Yesterday, we went down to Provo for their Freedom Festival!

 We had some BBQ at DICKIES!

(and Yes, it is VERY hard to get Sara to sit...even for a meal :-)

This guy is SERIOUS about his BBQ!

And then we headed to Electric Park (Thanksgiving Point) for fireworks.  We hung out for over 3 hours!

And of course Sam climbed a tree :-)

  and we played some frisby and football,

 But most of our time was spent chasing Violet.  She WOULD NOT stay with us!  I guess it's safe to say she's over her separation anxiety...

 It rained off and on.

But we mostly just hung out,

Or cuddled :-)

Backyard

After living here for over four years we are FINALLY getting our backyard in!  I'm so excited!!!!

We (Aaron mostly) prepped the soil by raking and pulling weeds, raking and pulling some more weeds, and then raking some more...

I sectioned off some areas where I don't want grass and will eventually (hopefully really soon) will have trees and shrubs.

Here are some BEFORE SOD pix:

And here are some DURING SOD pix:

Are you catching my vision?

We still have a lot of doing left (planting trees & shrubs, bringing in gravel & maybe bark, hefting & placing super gigantuous rocks, killing some not-so-pretty sagebrush and weeds, back-filling walls, decorating patio, lighting...the list goes on and on).

...so the AFTER pix will have to wait.  

Next year we will finish the upper part of our backyard where we have all the shrub oak and wild grass...yay!