Family Wall

We are all having a great time building a wall in our back yard. Jon and I both are major rock hounds and we love big rocks. Well Jon's obsession got the best of him and he has been building a rock wall in our back yard. I am posting some pictures from the summer at our quarry (a Friend has a ranch in the desert and lets us collect from an old dry riverbed). The boys have all developed strong muscles and learned the many engineering feats of an inclined plane, leveraging and teamwork (our favorite tools are the two dollies, the ramp, chisel and the steel pole). Thanks to Peter, Alex, Anna, Robby, Jared & David for all their help with it. Jake and Jordan even helped when they were in town (this has been a three year project, so far).
There used to be stairs coming down from the side of the house (Jon and the boys jack hammered them out, along with the rubble that was there when we bought the house). We are going to put curving rock stairs in their place, right behind the rock wall.
Jon built a seat for me in the rock wall, it is the most comfortable seat, it has an arm rest too. I am getting very excited. You may be able to see the split in the rocks on the ground just in front of the wall, that is where a fake river is starting and continuing out into the yard (see the picture with the Dolly). And we get to see the beautiful sunsets in the desert too.