TIMBER....Cutting Down Some Trees

With spring just around the corner the yard work has begun. We decided this year to have someone come and professional trim our trees. A couple of our biggest ones are starting to grow over the roof and a couple different ones are starting to look dead is certain places. We had a landscaper come and he told us that 3 of our trees were either dead or dying because of how they had been "topped" before we bought the house. He said there wasn't much of a point in leaving them in and that he would charge us 600 bucks to cut them down. On Friday night Matt and I were laying on the couch cuddling talking about what our weekend was going to entail and we decided that Saturday we would cut down the trees ourselves. Our great friends and neighbors wanted the wood for their fireplace so they offered to come help us and we gave them all our wood. It was so nice to have twice as many hands to make the work go faster.

Hallie was very anxious to get going and was a huge help. She loved to carry the branches over where Steph and I would cut them up and load them into the truck. 

 We got the 1st tree down pretty quickly then we had a few problems with the chain saws. Steph and I loaded the truck with the branches while the boys dx the saws. Matt ran to get lunch and replacement parts, I took the branches to the green waste, Steph stayed with the kids, and Jon went to get a different chainsaw. It took a couple hours to really get back in our groove....which sucked since it slowed us down so much. But once we got going again it went pretty quickly. 

The kids were so good and played in the backyard and kept themselves pretty entertained for most of the day.

Now that they are down someone is coming this week to dig out the stumps and then we will be replacing them with new trees. It was a very long day but at the end of all of it it was worth it. Oh just a side note the day was a little cooler and we wore jackets all day but when we went in to get everyone bathed we all had gotten some sun. Evidenced by some pink cheeks and hair parts....spring must be coming.