... The Backyard is 95% done!!!

So, most everyone knows that when we moved into our house all we had for a backyard was a big dirt pile (and a couple weeds) since the house was new construction. Some of our neighbors had the builder landscape their backyard, but we knew that we wanted something a little more to be able to entertain and to be able to add on to it later on. So this summer we tackled the backyard. The original plan was for us to do most of the work ourselves but we were going to start working on it in March. Well... Sebastian had different plans, so we contracted all the this phase out. We had our good friend (and talented landscape designer) Jarrod Zehner (http://www.backyardcustoms.net/) and his crew come transform our backyard. They did an amazing job and it was done in just under 2 weeks. The only item remaining for this Phase of the backyard is to have the patio cover installed - the posts are set, but because of the size of the patio cover, it won't be done being manufactured until early next week. So, in 1 week from today that will be installed and I will post new pictures again. In this phase we brought all of the gas, electric and water back to various spots in the backyard so that in the future we can add a hot tub, outdoor kitchen, fire pit and waterfall. We don't have to do everything, but the groundwork is there. Anyways here are the pics of how it looks now during the day and at night...

Before pic... blah...

After pics during the day... only thing left is the top of the patio cover and the post covers

Nighttime pics... Jarrod did some amazing lighting but these pics just don't do it justice. You'll have to see it in person to really appeciate the lighting!

And we already have flowers... hopefully I can keep them all alive :-)