A load of dirt equals...

a great workout!!

We have been wanting to put flower beds in our backyard for a while now, but didn't have the money and just never made took initiative to do so.  This spring I was for sure planning on doing so and had already talked to my mom about coming to help me and we had already set a weekend for it.  Well, a few weeks back I get a call from my dad telling me that my Uncle Mike was working near by us digging a retention pond for someone and had some topsoil that he could give us!  Yes GIVE us! All we had to pay was a delivery fee for a guy to deliver it to us which ended up only being $60. I was like yes please!!  My dad even called a place close to us to see what a dump truck load of topsoil would be and he quoted him a little over $300. This was a total blessing for us! The only catch was that it had to be delivered like within the day or so.  So Kody and I started digging flowerbeds to get ready for the dirt.  The next day, Monday, the dirt came!  This picture dosen't do it justice...it was a lot of dirt!  It took up half our drive way!  Our main goal was to get the dirt off our drive way and into our backyard. I worked at it a little each day taking a break on Wednesday when it poured down rain and boy oh boy was it a workout!  If you want to burn a lot of calories, try shoveling dirt into a wheelbarrow and pushing it to the back yard and dumping it! whew!  My parents had already planned on coming that weekend, so they came prepared with their wheelbarrow and shovel in tow!  They helped us get all of the dirt to the backyard and helped us prepare the flowerbeds so that we can just plant in the spring!  They were such an amazing help and couldn't have done it without them!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

I  can not wait to plant flowers in early March so that our backyard will actually be something pretty to look at!  Can't wait!  So stayed tuned for the final result!  Who would have ever thought that I would be so excited about a load of dirt???  I guess this means I am growing up!  haha!!

Here are a few pictures of that weekend!