We Reached the Light at the End of the Tunnel

 Be prepared for a lot of photos...sorry.

We did it.

We finally laid sod.

Sorry all I post about is our yard...it's consumed much of our summer.

Travis was so excited he didn't even

wait for me to take a before picture before 

he had laid the first piece down.

The sod man was kind enough to set the sod

all over the yard so we wouldn't have to walk as far.

However, this post isn't just about sod...

it's about a miracle.

Our stake had combined with another stake to have youth conference.  All the youth

got to wear those awesome yellow helping hands t-shirts and would spend

2 days out doing service projects in the community.

One of those planned projects happened to be putting up a fence in our neighbor's 

backyard. So, not 2 minutes after we'd started laying the sod 

(which is kind of fun by the way),

we had people over at our place asking if we needed help. They informed

us that they were running out of projects for the youth.

Who are we to turn down free help?

Sure enough two young men showed up with their leaders.  

These two young men happen to be in our ward, which was awesome.

They had half the lawn laid in no time!

I did help on the first half of the yard..but I wanted to document and they

just kept moving so fast!

The second half---I basically just took photos.

But at this point, we had an army of youth in yellow shirts...

Popsicle Break.

:)

See how much fun they're having?

It got a little crowded at the end.

What perfect timing, eh?

We were so grateful for all of their help!  

Our lawn was finished in just over an hour...

it would've taken us all afternoon.

We love our grass!!

We even had some sod left over that we had the youth take next door to 

lay down on our neighbor's lawn that has been struggling a bit. 

Worked out quite nicely.

The End.