Make way for the trampoline!

The people who owned our house before us had no kids. The liked to do gardening. We've got a decent sized garden and they had it full to the brim with flowers/plants most of which I didn't have a clue what they were let alone know how to look after them. There were plants all round the outside of the garden and the main bulk of the garden had been split in two. One side was grass with a semi-circle flower bed (we got rid of that the summer we moved in), the other side had 4 raised beds in a square with gravel paths between and a water fountain in the middle, and 2 long raised beds around the outside. For the last 4 years we have struggled to maintain the jungle that was our garden. So we decided enough was enough - lets make room to enjoy our garden!! So the missionaries came to help us kick start the mamoth task!

It took 4 of us 2 1/2 hours to empty 3 of the boxes - there was so much soil!!! It is currently forming a little hill at the bottom of the garden... why didn't we hire a skip?? The next week Ben emptied the last box and we dismantled them, laid membrane and spread the gravel that used to be inbetween the boxes to cover the whole space. The crowning glory came when we got rid of the water fountain which we had NEVER used - it was a health hazard!! It had little wormy things living in there and I was always paranoid about kids playing with it or somehow drinking the disguisting water. It is no more!!

We then moved the toys that had been living on the patio onto the nice gravel area! In this picture the 2 long boxes are still in tact along the left of the picture and the back behind the toy kitchen. Those boxes are gone now too. I'm so glad. The trampoline is on here now and we ditched some of the toys which were broken anyway. It is sooooo much more family friendly out there! It was hard work but we did think - why didn't we do this 4 years ago?????