BEFORE:
It was so nice and green when we bought our house! It's been
a sad excuse of a yard ever since.
This particular picture was taken over 6 months ago, so the only difference lately has been that dirt replaced most of the areas where the dead grass was, and that there were a load of dandelions in the green corner (did you know that if you don't pick them, they grow into dandelion trees! We called it the dandelion forest).
There was a two week period from when we bought our house, to where we moved in, that the sprinklers were off. Needless to say, it doesn't take long for a lawn without water to fry in the sweltering heat of a Nevada summer.
AFTER:
We just got artificial grass, and it's great! Our yard went from looking the worst, to the best on the street, in a few short hours. It's so nice to look out the window to a nice green yard, and a lawn that always looks freshly mowed.
Blair says that artificial grass has to be one of the most wonderful things ever invented.
here's it close up:
This was part of Xander's prayer the night before the people came to put in our grass:
"...bless that the grass guys can be safe and not cut their hands when they put in the grass, and not get hurt, and not put their fingers in the dirt... and bless our blessings to be safe..."
-It made me chuckle.
