Our Large and In Charge Patio!

So...this post is soooo late!  We worked on this the last weekend in June.....epic fail on my part in getting the pictures taken and posted.

Since our new deck was put in, the patio underneath was basically in shambles!  It was piles of dirt everywhere, which meant lots of mud was coming into the house when Sadie went out.  It drove me NUTS!  Thankfully, my Mom, Dad, and brother were able to come over on short notice and hammer out the new patio.

I didn't do a good job of getting before an after pics, so the during pics will have to suffice

I lost Sadie for a little bit and found here chilling on the new deck:

Since so much dirt was being removed, we hauled it down to underneath the swingset.  The ground was starting to sink (because of old wood chips) so it worked really nice.  Here it was during the process:

And after:

And the afters of the patio:

I'm so happy with how it turned out!  Thanks again to my fam for helping!

Next year we are going to add some planter boxes around the deck footings so it looks more finished.

I'm still working on moving rock around the air conditioner....which will take me like 5 years at the pace I'm going....