ARE YOU KIDDING!!!!

So Ben and I are tired of looking at our bare front and back yards and decided to call someone to give us an estimate. We have spent so much time at Home Depot these last few months that we thought, what the heck lets give them a try. Now keep in mind that everything we are doing is a first for us. I know we have a big back yard and our front yard is not what I would call big but needs work none the less. I knew it would be expensive so we thought we would do it a little at a time. Our back yard is split into 3 sections because of a walkway so we picked the biggest section to do first. The guy comes out takes some measurements and says he will call us. He comes back to the house and has what I think is a pretty nice layout. Trees, bushes, some rocks, and a 400sq.ft. piece of grass. Ben didn't like it at all because of the rocks. He said that we already had rocks and why do I want to pay for more which is true. Anyway so we got to the money part 9000.00!!! We about hit the roof we had no idea and 4500 of that was rock! So we said ok lets just do grass the whole area which is about 2500sq.ft. well its a little more than that but we didn't want it right up next to the fence. So anyway he calls me back and said that just for grass it would be 6000.00. I still was in shock so I called around to some stores to see how much sod would be and it seemed that the going rate was about .40 cents a sq.ft. So if my math isn't wrong which it very well could be because I suck at it, for the 2500sq.ft. it would be 1025.00. So a few lessons learned one, that things in Las Vegas are expensive two, we will be doing our yard ourselves and three, it wont be done for a while.