July 29, 2010

IT'S GOING TO BE REMOVED!!!

they cut off some branches first...

got the ropes ready...
sawed into the trunk...
...and down she goes! woo-hoo!

the nasty berry-dropping thing in front of the (next-door-neighbors, to be exact) house is finally GONE.
wow. it looks so weird without it in front. so much brighter! oh wait, that also means so much hotter without the shade. oh well. guess we'll have to adjust =P

so much CLEANER.

July 28, 2010

dashiell has a hard time waking up from his nap.

i got him off the bed, but then he fell asleep again on the floor.

hmmm.

July 27, 2010

tree-cutting commotion outside...we thought they were going to cut down the hideous one in front of our house, but they didn't.

mom and i finally finished this evil sunflower puzzle. it wasn't really that evil...but it was tough. took us 3 1/2 days, i think. the really evil one was the black/white musical notes one we did last summer in MT.
brennan pulls this out of the closet and say, 'i cold! i wan hattie!' umm. it's really quite warm already, even without the over-sized robe!

this next video clip is how to give mamas and grammas everywhere a heart attack

July 26, 2010

went to seafood city this morning and brought home an ube roll (because dashiell really wanted to have the purple cake). so here he is, just as he's about to eat some. yummy!

July 25, 2010

we needed to empty out the water from earlier on this week, so derek decided that the boys could help by grabbing a bucket and watering nana's plants.

it quickly turned into dumping buckets of water onto each other.

crazy boys =)

cleaning and polishing 1/2 of the family room...

i'm hoping to be able to complete the other 1/2 later tonight.

July 24, 2010

another visit to pretend city today

brennan balanced himself surprisingly well on this!


knocked out after pretend city and a stop at chick-fil-a for lunch

July 23, 2010

the thomas trains have been found to be fun again

July 22, 2010

July 21, 2010

the kids' jars that i'm filling up with marbles. brennan has a slightly smaller one.

'i go sweeping!' and then he picks up a book to read...

July 20, 2010

i was playing the new phase 10 for kids game i bought with dashiell, and brennan wanted in on the game. he really wasn't angry or anything... =)

dashiell took his nap today...but buried himself under a pillow!?

July 18, 2010

it was soooo warm back here at home, that we decided to set up the pool in the backyard for the boys to play in.

July 17, 2010

let the tree-planting begin!

matt chose a red plum tree
dashiell chose a cherry tree

brennan got an apple tree

filling the hole with some water (although, i hate to admit that it looks like dashiell is going pee...)






carrying 'grandpa's bush' over to the side of the house...all by himself!

we had to wait until later in the afternoon to plant the other trees because grandpa said the ground wasn't quite yet ready...

so here's tree-planting, pt 2