Landscaping is Fun

Ever since we bought our house in 2008, we've wanted to re-landscape the front yard. It was more weeds than grass, lumpy, and boring. Apparently if your house was built in the 1950s you were required to have at least 5 yew bushes in front. Our previous owner was an overachiever so we had more like 12.

Here's what we started with:

Here are some in-progress pictures:

I haven't taken any pictures of the final project, but i'll get those up shortly. All that's left is waiting for august when it starts to cool down. Then we'll bring in top soil and seed the half of the lawn that is going to be grass. Needless to say, Adam is excited about having less lawn to mow.