landscaping

Today we got our new tree! We've slowly been working on getting some landscaping done in the front of the house over the past few weeks. The tree that was put in the middle of the yard when we built the house has been going downhill and has some strange disease or something being that it only has healthy leaves growing on it in the back bottom fourth of the tree! TIMBER! Out it came! It's been so hard to decide what to plant (we are so not knowledgable when it comes to gardening) and Charlie's really only got weekends to work on it, so it's been one step at a time. Justen came by Magical Garden Center with his truck to pick up the tree once we finally decided on one, then he helped Charlie and the boys dig a great big hole and get it into the ground. It looks great! The boys are complete dirt balls at this point but they enjoyed digging, climbing the mound of dirt and clay, collecting little and big rocks, and picking up squirmy worms. I'll always remember and probably say fourty years from now..."We planted that tree just after Ava was born!"

picking out our tree

bringing it home

digging with daddy

sittin' in the hole

unloading the truck

it's finally planted!

timber! the old tree is down!