Easter Weekend

This weekend was so much fun! I love not working! :)

Eric and I had Friday off and, since it was sleeting out, we pulled up the carpet in the back bedroom. I love ripping up the carpet in this house. The hardwood is so gorgeous, it's like tearing into a really great present. Another birthday present! 

A.G. really likes when we work on the house. He finds all kinds of new places to play.

Joe arrived just as we were finishing the back room, so we hung out with him before putting him on rock removal duty the following day.

You would not believe how many rocks there on are this side of the house. We didn't even come close to finishing this up; we kept finding roots upon roots of trees that had been hacked down, and more and more layers of rock and weed barrier. All this FINALLY convinced Eric (for reals this time), that this area is a mess and that we need to get rid of everything and start over with grass. FINALLY. It's going to take a while, though.
After we had some lunch, Joe took a nap while Eric and I made our garden!

Eric's version of American Gothic

We really wanted a garden this year, but the soil in the back of our yard is much too rocky and dry for anything to grow. So we built some boxes, stained them, lined them with weed barrier, and filled them with dirt. Voila! A garden! We were really excited when we finished, then realized that we had just completed some really classy cat toilets. We'll have to fence them in somehow. Maybe with the fencing we're removing from the side of the house....?