It Begins

Now that the house is livable and the mountain of boxes has been removed, Thad turned his attention to his number one project on the list. Trees in the backyard to hide the oil derrick. Of course we couldn't buy decent size trees and let them grow to hide, he needed coverage now. So her ordered the 18 ft sequoias that will be here next weekend, and then realized how big the holes needed to be for those trees, and what else had to be moved before they got there. Enter Thad's toy for the weekend.

It made quick work of the things that had to be torn out or transplanted, and the kids enjoyed it too.

By the end of the day the yard was a mess, but in a good way. There are seven of these massive holes.

The picture doesn't do them justice. They are 4x4x3.5 ft. Basically Sammy could jump down in one and be hidden and not be able to get out. Tempting idea sometimes. And there are piles of stuff like this lying around needing to be disposed of.

But by next weekend we should have a wall of trees along the back wall. We also noticed that this has become a habit for us. Every house we've lived in we've had a backhoe in the backyard doing something major. Does anyone else do that or just us? We also made some major progress on hanging pictures and I came up with this little arrangement for the dining room that I just love. I've seen those gallery walls everywhere, and I wanted to do one, but I'm a little too ocd and it had to be uniform, so this is my, much smaller version.

And then I worked on this cute board for Andi's room. Kelsie made it for her for Christmas, but it no longer matched what we have in mind for Andi's room, so we just changed up the color and now it's perfect.

Today we will be replacing the ridiculous dishwasher that sounds like there's a growling animal in the kitchen, and buying paint for me to get started with!