Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Backyard Renovation - during



Demo begins!








porta-potty on our front lawn!



It took two days to get rid of our brick stairs and weird concrete bench.  




Heavy equipment in the backyard!








The deck begins!




We have a deck!




Grass goes in


Fire pit in progress

Monday, September 14, 2015

Backyard Renovation - before


This post is a long time coming!!!!  Since moving in to this house 5 years ago every 6 months or so we tackle some project.  We have replaced all of the windows, replaced the air conditioning, converted from natural gas to oil (the two oil drums had to be cut apart and removed in pieces), painted every room in the house, refinished the wood floors on the main floor, added a shower to the guest bath, added heat to the basement and guest room, built and installed custom built-in bookcases in our living room, built and installed custom built-in lockers in our mudroom, landscape the front of the house and not to mention all the work on the deck and gutters.

It was finally time to tackle the back of the house.  As you can see, it was a jungle back there.  The plants were random and wild.  The deck was falling down.  Basically, nothing made sense or caused any happiness for us.  We started planning very early on - hiring a landscape architect who came up with many different plans.  We narrowed it down and then bid it out to three contractors.  We hired a contractor and got working.  Here are the before pictures...    










Sunday, September 13, 2015

Rosh Hashanah 2015











Saturday, September 12, 2015

Corn Maze 2015


Back at the corn maze - fun before we started the maze


Jerald and Seth on the zip line


Jerald and Justin on the zip line (Ezra wasn't tall enough - maybe next year?)





Another successful and fun corn maze.  Not our fastest time - over 2 hours - but still fun!





Ice cream to celebrate!


Friday, September 11, 2015

First Day of School - Ezra pre-K Room 5




Last first day of pre-school!  Room 5 here he comes!!!!


Sunday, September 06, 2015

The Lawn on D


We went downtown to explore this really cool pop-up park.  We couldn't get enough of these swings!  We also played bocce ball.  










Saturday, September 05, 2015

Fire pit!


I haven't gotten around to do the before, during and after of our big backyard reno - but even though we didn't have the whole summer to enjoy it - we have now broke in the fire pit - aka - the boys hang-out.  


Friday, September 04, 2015

School Spirit


I have been working hard all summer as I start my first year in a 2-year term as the Co-Parent Association Chair.  We all have to show our school spirit!

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

More pics from the first day of school




Zoo - Nana, Becca, Ari and Ezra


We love cousins and Nana!!!!