Backyard Grass & Blown out Sprinklers

Brett has worked really hard the last month to put in a sprinkling system and planting grass in our backyard. Our friend, Walt has been essentially helpful in planning and executing this humongous project. I spent more days than I want to count smoothing out and leveling the backyard as much as I could.
Finally, Brett & Walt spent one really long day trenching and laying pipe and hooking up sprinklers.

The moms and the kids filled in the trenches. Then I spent several days smoothing things out again.

Our family went out one night and compacted some of the trend lines. ;)

The next week, Brett rented a Hydro-seeder machine and sprayed grass seed in the rain. It made it so that the green color washed away. Unfortunately it looked like it there was no seed at all. I was super nervous that it wouldn't work but Brett said to be patient. We decided to take pictures every week to see the progress.

Week One (Sept 7th) Doesn't look like much

Week Two (Sept 14) Being patient is so hard!!

Week Three (Sept 20) Tiny patches are poking up all over

I put in a rubber edge near the back of the garage and planted some more seed.

Week Three & a Half (Sept 24) It seems to turn a little greener everyday!

Week Four (Sept 27) It's coming in really well except patchy in a few places.

Week Five & a half (Oct 9)
We had our Sprinkler System blown out for the Winter. We are a little nervous about the grass dying if the weather stays too warm but Walt thinks we're fine so.... goodbye to watering our cute little grass until next year!