Memorial day makeover: backyard edition

We had a pretty suscessful Memorial day.  Not in the traditional sense, because we didn't go on the boat or to the beach, but we did make over our back yard playarea!  The kids had successfully killed all of the grass in the back yard that was any where near their toys.  I had been trying to figure out exactly what to do, when I saw this idea at a friend's house several months ago.  And today we finally got around to getting it done!! My sweet husband did all of the heavy lifting! Thanks honey!!

 before

 AFTER!

MUCH better ;)

 

We did finish off the holiday with some nice (charcoal!) hamburgers and a good old fashion water balloon fight with squirt guns!! So the holiday didn't get totally jipped :)