Box of Chocolates: It's time for a facelift!

Haha, no worries, I'm not going in for plastic surgery, but my yard already has! I love my house, it is a cute little Cape Cod style house (fitting for the girl who grew up on Cape Cod) near Willow Lawn. Everything about it is charming... except for the back yard. Every time I walk into my backyard I am stressed out from the overgrowth of bushes and trees, the weeds, etc. etc. It gets complicated mowing around the outside because of all the bushes.

Last weekend I spent 4 CJ hours on Saturday weeding my front, and 4 CJ hours on Sunday mulching the front and weeding part of the back. My uncle spent 4 Uncle Terry hours fixing up the area near my A/C unit. The front yard looked pretty good, and the area my uncle worked on looked AMAZING! (see below)

Looks so nice!

My azalea is no longer being suffocated by weeds! Thanks Terry!

So, I purchased this Angie's list deal for 16 hours of man labor! Yup, I got two guys for almost eight hours and they really did a good job working on my back yard. You can see below for the before and after pictures. It is a pretty stark difference! Now I just need to decide what I'm going to do with all this free space!

Before (walkway to back)

After (walkway to back)

Another after shot of the walkway

The walkway, on its own, is the greatest part. Can you see how far to the left my patio goes? I didn't even know that! If you look at the before photo you can see that most of the patio was covered!

Continuing on into the yard here is before of the left side

Before (left side of yard)

After (left side of my yard)

Does anyone see a difference here?!?! :)

Here is another before of the left side of the yard

After (left side of yard)

WOWSA! Ok let's move onto the other side of the yard? I mean, I thought 16 hours of man labor wouldn't get nearly as much done as what they got done today.