Time to check in!

It's been a bit of lax summer with the blog posting, and there's no real excuse except laziness. And maybe that there's nothing terribly exciting going on! As you can see from this picture, I continue to grow and grow - I will be 30 weeks on Tuesday (which for those of you who can only think in months is 7 months almost exactly). I can't believe the baby's going to be here that soon! Ahhh I hope we're ready! People keep asking us if the nursery is done or if we have a name picked out or if we've bought a lot of stuff yet and the answer to all those questions is no, these things haven't happened yet. We did buy a stroller, carseat and playpen a while back, but there's still much to be done. I've decided that my last day of work will be October 12, so that leaves me about three and a half weeks until the baby is due - PLENTY of time, right?? No we plan on getting going soon - as you will see from the following pictures, our backyard is finally done!! Hurray!

All summer we (well mostly Brian as I've been sort of useless this summer) have been plugging away at our backyard, trying to make it somewhat presentable. We bought one of those vinyl sheds from Canadian Tire a few weeks ago, and now the last step was laying the sod. Brian started this process on Friday night by renting a roto-tiller (sp?) from Home Depot. We wanted to get a bigger one, but once again the curse of not having a truck cost us - the only one that would fit in the car was this dinky little one. So, a few hours later, Brian was thoroughly rattled (literally) and the ground not very much softer. Oh well - it helped a little. Saturday, Jer came over and helped Brian lay the sod. It didn't take too long in our tiny backyard and it was done right around lunch time. Todays rain couldn't have come at a better time, and now we can have people over and we don't have to sit in a pile of dirt! Just in time for the fall and winter of course. We even have one little patch left over beside the shed for a small garden.