Backyard reveal! FINALLY.

I'm sure most of you can recall me mentioning us re-doing our backyard. We started to actively re-do it last spring. This weekend we finally finished it :).

WARNING: Objects do appear extremely small.
Our backyard is not very big at all, actually its insanely too small . Something my husband and I regret not caring more about when we purchased this house at the ripe age of 21 years old. We didn't quite look at it as a house we might possibly live in for more than 2-3 years. Now its been seven years yesterday since we signed the papers and bought this house.
I love the house, its a little small and has needed some major updating and fixing throughout the years but its beautiful and we love it now.
If only the yard were bigger. But at least now its nice and clean and enjoyable, small or not. Check out the progression of us fixing it.

My dad and Julian started pulling out the old railroad ties first of all.

Sorry but this is the only picture of the hideous rotting railroad ties that I could find.
Nasty yard...
Old rusted table and chairs.
Over grown flower beds.


I feel embarrassed to even share that it has looked this way for so long. We just never went out there. Our house was nice and pretty inside but the back was so TRASHY!


Here are the pictures of the yard while under construction.
You can see if starting to come together.




Cooper even helped... (look how tiny he was, it was about 4-5 months ago).
We didn't have a concrete slab poured yet.
Check out the yard. Yikes. But the flower beds really do look very nice.
Thanks Mom :)

We made a flower bed that runs down the entire back fence. This was to keep our dogs from digging. They dig badly.


The wall and stairs were finally done.



We finally got the concrete poured.


ALL DONE......
I still need to buy an outdoor rug for under the table, some potted and hanging plants and flowers. I still need to add some flowers to our flower beds. But for now this is great compared to before. Here it is :)


We painted the table and chairs black. I love them now :) Its amazing what re-painting metal chairs can do for them.

Cooper loved getting in and out of the doghouse.

This is Chris, He and my dad both helped Julian to get this project finished. It involved lots of lifting and ladders and hammers and saws.


The man who made it happen...
I'm so proud of Julian. He really did such a good job with such a small space. Our son now has a nice place to play(not the most safe due to the wall but that's not a choice. Its simply because of drainage).
We are getting Cooper some outdoor toys for his birthday because he absolutely LOVES to go outside and play. Its so nice to eat outside on our porch now.
Great job honey, Thanks for all the hard work.
Coopy and I love you.