THE GREAT WALL OF WEST TEXAS

Since we moved in, I have dreamed of a brick patio next to our house. Kept it in the dream category, since I was not going to spend the $$ to buy bricks. Tom came across roughly 2000 clean, used bricks. He loaded them onto his trailer...all by himself...in 3 trips. Doug and the kids unloaded them. Then Doug got to work on clearing and leveling the ground between our house and garage. Forkful by forkful, the job was completed...mostly by Doug with some help from me and Erik...Erik did a super job with the bricks and the pattern...just like using legos!
This is just the beginning. The patio will go past the blue stroller all the way to the basketball hoop. If you scroll back to the top picture, you can make out the basketball hoop by the tree...just to get a sense of the S-I-Z-E of the patio that is getting put down. I'm sure Doug knows the exact dimensions, but all I can say is that it's BIG.

Update: Doug says it's about 15 x 30.
All we need now is a truckful of sand to be delivered so we can fill in the cracks and level out any wobbly bricks.

Kids on Easter Sunday. My mom had bought the dresses a year ago for the girls.
Cute...even though he's sideways. I'm too busy to fix it right now LOL
Bathtub buddies.