Ed took some picture of the outside of our house and the yard.  This first picture is of the pond in the back of the house.  The bench was from his Dad.  If you look in a previous video I posted you can see how the waterfall comes down over the bench area.  If you click on the picture and enlarge it you can see some of his pond plants he added.

 This is our view from our front porch!  We absolutely love it!

 A view to our turn around driveway.

 Another view from our front porch.

 See that little blue dog toy?  My Dad bought that for Alyssa when she turned one years old 7 years ago!  So glad we have had it through all three kids.  I miss you Dad, I think of you every time Summer uses it!

 See the river rock next to the fence?  Ed had that delivered to fill in the bottom of the pond.  He is worried that Summer could fall in and drown.  Now he has filled it and still has water in it but it is shallow enough it wouldn't be a problem.  He also added a safety lock on the sliding glass door so the kids couldn't open the back door and accidentally let the baby out.

A view of our garage.  Do you know what is cool.  They built the garage so that you could have an attic above.  You could use it as a small studio if you wanted.  For now Ed is going to put plywood down so we can use it as storage.

 We bought this dog kennel for the dogs.  It is really awesome!  It has shade coverings for three panels and a roof.  We are hoping someday to be able to afford to fence the yard so they can mostly run free.  Even though we are on 5.5 acres the dogs could run off and we don't want that to happen.