A NEW DRIVEWAY -AUGUST 2011

The south side of our garage is a right of way for Questar Gas, which they will use to get to the pump house. Thirteen east has become a safety hazard for their employee's so we were asked it we would like to have a driveway put in so that their employees could access the pump house from our back yard. Of course we said YES! Here was the process of our new driveway and stairs.

Before the new driveway....we had a pear tree, grape vine, weeds, weeds & more weeds

Beginning the process
The front of the house rain gutter has been put underground to drain out to the back

First level of bricks (wall) and drive, our neighbor Marilyn will enjoy her new wall

What it is beginning to look like from Marilyn's house.

getting rid of the old dirt out front for new dirt

Here comes the cement
The stairs were done first then they continued out to the side walk

Now for the side walk and out to the street/breaking up the cement and hauling it away

The side walk to the street is complete.

Last part of the driveway process was the asphalt, (between the street & driveway)

Finishing touch......the gate and railing.

DONE!
WE THOUGHT WE WERE DONE!!!???%%%
Yea, a truck load of dirt was delivered to us.....Now we can level out the back yard by the deck
Before the dirt was added and leveled to our new retaining wall that John built
The fun begins!
Donna shovels the dirt into the wheelbarrow & John delivers the dirt to the back
50 wheelbarrows full - 20 shovels each!
Leveling the ground

Saturating the dirt to help it settle

This is what we did on Natalie's Birthday

We added two more days of this project
we did 122 wheelbarrows full

NEW YORK VISITORS

MAYA, MEET MAYA

Linda Witt came town with her grand daughter Maya, who is 10 years old. They stayed with us Friday, August 12th through Tuesday, August 16th. We had a great visit and Maya enjoyed doing things with our grand children.

HOGAL ZOO

Collin, Sydney, Shannon, Dresden, Logan and Strider went with Maya and I to the zoo.

They had more fun putting there faces next to the large fan that sprayed out water. It was so cold that within a few minutes they looked like jack frost.

The zoo has added some awesome animated dinosaurs, who also got the kids wet.

Thanks Shannon for helping out.

All six children got on the scale to see if they could weigh as much as the elephant.......NOT EVEN CLOSE, SORRY!

This is my favorite pictures of all of them

After a spaghetti dinner, Sydney and Collin had to go to their lessons that evening so only Dresden and Logan tagged along for a swim with Maya. I think they still had a lot of fun.

Oh my Gosh! Guess who was practicing at the same pool.........we really didn't know Sydney was going to be there. I had to get a picture of her, but didn't tell the kids or they would have wanted to see her too, wouldn't want to make her coach angry with us.

Saying good-bye to Maya

THANKS FOR VISITING, COME AGAIN!

DONNA & LINDA

SYDNEY & COLLIN'S AWARDS

SYDNEY & THE SLC SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS

Getting ready for her first meet
Syd was in three meets, she broke her own record in all three
She took first place in the third meet!
Sydney is in the middle lane

COLLIN & TAEKWONDO

ANOTHER TROPHY

Collin just tested for his Sr. Brown belt. Next testing date he will test for his
red belt and move into the advanced group.