Merry Christmas to me!

Christmas was a month ago - let's not go there k? 

My present from Jeff was to buy the pavers for our extended patio and have them installed. He was even willing to pay someone to install them!!!?!?!? Now if you know Jeff at all, this is HUGE....he's a big proponent of "doing things himself". hehe 

Well of course work got in the way and he was unable to do it himself. So the pavers came and sat by the side of the driveway since the first week in January.

We tried to have them done a couple weeks ago and my luck, it's the only 2 weeks it rained so the ground was too wet......more waiting......been waiting for this since we moved in......2005.

Friday was the big day - Feb 5th - I think Jeff was trying to stretch this out for Valentine's day too. :) Lucky for him I'm not a big fan of $50 for a dozen roses and chocolates so we celebrate the next day with the clearance flowers. :) Another post on how cheap we are. haha!

the BEFORE

prepped ground - took them 5 hours to get the ground level and ready to go.....thank goodness they did this and not us!

stacked pavers

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

The BIG REVEAL!

AWESOME! And it rained Saturday night, woke up to a lovely patio and no more mud!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! (to Jeff, Guillermo and Alberto)