Red Horse Inn - Take 2

Mom has been up here camping for the past couple of days and we escaped for the evening to enjoy wine and music at one of my favorite places!  I could seriously come here every weekend and never get tired of it:)

April Pictures

 

The kids and I had to go to FOUR stores and
the boy and I do not enjoy shopping!

C took over the playroom!;)

C helped M get the yard stuff put out!

My azaleas are beautiful!

We have a carpenter bee problem so the boys 
set up a trap for them - and it actually works
quite well!

Nights on the porch with a fire in the fire pit and
the heat lamp on!

Sunrises at the new house don't show out nearly
as much as the old house, but I did catch one
pretty one!

C got bored and made some hot glue
guys to hang out on the door!

Saw a raccoon - in the middle of the day!

M had shoulder surgery and had been on the couch
for the past couple of weeks!

Homemade biscuits completely by herself!

A VERY crowded day at the skate park!

I don't even know!  LOL!

Soccer Season Comes to an End

Tonight was the culmination of C's first season playing soccer with his school and playing at the academy level!  He has learned SO much and has made some good friends along the way!  Tonight was the parent/kid game and pizza party to end a great season!

The past couple games:

Tonight's parent/kid game and pizza party:

First Lake Outing

We took our first trip up to the lake, got the boat put in the water and left it there for the summer:)  It's a beautiful time of the year to be on the water.  I got the kids wet suits so that they could ski/wakeboard/whatever for more months.  C put his straight to work and although we forgot the wakeboards, he was game to ski - back up first try and we had to make him stop so that we could get home at a decent time.  He's a water kid for sure, but he gets that honestly;)!

Red Horse Inn Date Night

This has become one of my favorite date nights!  Such a calming, beautiful place:)

 

Yard Transformation

 What we started with:

March 1:

All the trees and shrubs in our yard were ripped out and hauled away as well as part of the fence in the backyard!

March 6:

This is when I realized it was going to be a larger project than I was led to believe!  Gutters were fixed and piped out away from the house.  Irrigation was, inadvertently, ripped out.  And my yard was full of holes and trenches by the end of the day!

March 10:

The trenches and holes were covered, irrigation repaired(mostly), and a new catch basin was installed by the driveway!

March 13:

Trees were planted along the fence line!

The boys broke the treads on the bobcat and had to
call in reinforcements to get it repaired!  It took
2.5 hours to get one tree in the ground!!

All trees, except one in the back right, were planted!

March 19:

Shrubs and the final tree for the backyard were delivered(still missing just a couple of shrubs that were not in stock) and planted.  The roof drains along the side and front of the house were dug up and replaced and an irrigation leak in the back was repaired.  Another load of dirt was delivered and added to the backyard around the trees.

March 20:

Most of the drip irrigation was installed(the remained was done a couple of days later as well as prettying-up the mulch beds) and mulch was put out in the front and side yard.

This shrub had to be moved a bit - they ran into
a bunch of buried debris and had a hard time getting
it where it needed to go when they planted it yesterday!

March 30:

Rocks were delivered for the wall in the backyard.

April 1 & 2:

Rocks were laid as a boulder wall.

April 3:

The backyard was mulched.

April 9:

Stripped the existing grass off the front and side yard.

April 13:

Prepped the ground for sod.

Apirl 15:

Installed sod.  We are mostly done now.  Missing some flowers and a few trees, but for the sake of this post, I'm going to call it good!