A little piece of the wild west

Here is a little reminder of what our backyard started as...



And actually it started out worse than that. This picture was taken after we had pulled out the forest of weeds and all the dead grass and cultivated and leveled the yard and laid down top soil, but you get the point.

A couple months ago, as you can see in the picture above, we decided to order a pallet of sod and sod the yard on our own and when this was done we were happy with the results, after obsessively watering the yard for about a month (I tend to be obsessive about these projects I have no experience in) we had a plush green lawn.

But we still had no grill, nowhere to sit, patches without grass with many different ideas of what should go there, and these ugly things...



So a couple of weeks ago we bought and assembled a grill (charcol and gas) and this weekend we took on the task of completing our vision for the back yard. Our vision changed as we went, we started with bricks to hide the ugly electric boxes and went from there and it was a lot of tough work, and I have the sunburn and sore back to prove it. Now we are so excited to spend time outside! We are all ready for a Memorial Day BBQ with Marc's parents and a BBQ with my family the following weekend. And Romo loves it too, he is finally allowed in his backyard to chomp on all the grass he wants, being the cow that he is ;)

We decided to go with a wild west theme to give it a little personality. Ever since moving to Texas the country girl in me has been coming out. I already had the boots (thanks to my mom), and the belt (thanks to Marc), and I have two Houston Rodeos under my belt, not to mention with the amount of grass Romo consumes I consider myself the proud owner of a calf, plus he kinda acts like the calfs at the rodeo some days. And I decided that to let the true cowgirl in me shine our home needed a little country twist! Here are a few photos of the finished project for y'all.








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