Our yard

Our front yard.  Well...our yard in general, as been a work in progress since August. It wasn't too bad a yard. Yes there were some weeds and wasnt the prettiest yard on the block, but hey, it was GREEN! Apparently it wasn't good enough for our HOA though. We got hit with letter after letter about our yard, even when we would contact them (via email and phone) to tell them we are working on it. (Keep in mind that our neighbor diagonal from us, whose yard is WORSE than ours, has yet to get ONE letter regarding their yard from the HOA.)

So finally we had enough.

Here is our yard before. I had started to kill the grass with Round up at this point.

We rented a tiller from Homedepot and with our neighbor Jim's help, ripped up the entire yard (minus the fenced in backyard that the HOA cant see)

Mike cleaning the tiller of dead grass as he goes.

I actually kinda like the brown yard!

After weeks of hard work pulling the BIZILLION rocks that were in the front yard (I kid you not! We have a very LARGE moving box FULL, with the flaps taped up so we can put even more in it, full). The rocks that I (me, Richelle, did 98% of the rock work in the front) pulled out are getting reused along the side of the house between ours and the neighbors for drainage...in case anyone was wondering ;)

My beautiful, rock free, dirt front yard.

And finally!! We were ready for some sod!! We ended up getting Empire Zoysia because its a softer grass that requires less mowing and water. Cant beat that!!  Here's the yard with the first 2 pallets (though some of the second pallet is behind me, I didn't get a pic of that yet.)

Loving it!! I just need to get my plants for along the driveway!

Beautiful new red mulch to match the lava rock around the bushes.

The yard is still a work in progress, but its finally starting to look like an awesome yard! The next step is to clear the strip between the sidewalk and street along the side of the house. Thats our "Mike's Christmas break" project.  :)  More pictures to come as more gets done! So stay tuned!!!