We're in the last stretch of a major backyard redo. Sure wish we would have ran into Yard Crashers or hit the lottery or something before doing this project, ugh. We dug the hill out and built the wall (my wife, my father in law, 15 yo step son, and me) by hand, each block at a time, not to mention putting up a couple hundred feet of privacy and aluminum fencing, and the pics don't show the entire wall, the sod, the sprinkler system we installed ourselves, etc., etc. It was a lot of work.
Here is the start:
And at the same time as this, we had a pool installed but this is what it looked like a couple weeks ago (will need to update this next week when we're done):
