What the!?!?!?

Ok, so remember the end of my last post about the chainsaw? Well...here is what I ran out to find him doing.

He cut down my tree!! Apparently he didn't like it and I told him he could do whatever he wanted. And get this...the tree isn't even in the backyard, it's on the side of our house next to the drive way. I forgot to take a picture of the tree after it was all cut down. Not to mention that after this picture was taken he told me that he needed my help because he needed to use the ladder to get to the tallest branches. So, I (being the best wife that I always am) went to hold the ladder. Next thing I know he has the chainsaw right above my head and the branch falls right on my arm...AND it wasn't a small branch. So now I have a great huge black bruise on my hand and my wrist is a little swollen (I know!).

Anyway, enough of that (maybe I'll take a picture tomorrow of the stump that's left, and the pile of branches that he just left in the driveway)! I know I haven't posted in like forever, but I decided that I might as well post a whole bunch in one day, and then you can't all get so mad that I don't post everyday! Anyway, we finished the day by going to Mimi's Cafe, neither one of us had ever been. I must say it was quite tasty, and they have the best fresh lemonade I have ever tasted, it reminded my of chic fillet's lemonade. After dinner we made the long trek to REI, which I must say, it was quite a white out at the top of the mountain, you couldn't see 100 ft. in front of you. We finally made it to REI and we looked around for all the camping stuff that we are longing to buy and then Brian let me buy a new backpack!! For those of you who don't know we are also taking up backpacking this year and are now all gung ho about it! So, if any of you would like to go on a backpacking trip with us, let me know, we already have a few planned out! We also saw the cutest backpacks for Harley and Ace...I'm not quite sure they would do any good, but they would be so cute with them on! We finished off the night by going to Brian's parents house and watching Invincible with them. Brian's mom got out of the hospital today after having hip replacement surgery, so we also went over to help get her in bed. It was very fun! Ok, I'm going to end this post (I'm going to read more on landscaping and on trails to go backpacking on)!!

P.S. I can't quite figure out how to post two pictures, I mean I can post two, but I can't figure out how to move them around. Everytime I try to post another picture it just ends up at the top of my page and I can't move it...HELP!

The Joy of Spring

Isn't this the prettiest backyard you ever did see? I know, I know. We let it go to pot last year because, well first off the grass was already really crappy when we bought it, and add to that our two little beagles, and our getting married and all. We just didn't have time, and we didn't want to fix it all up just to have the dogs tear it all apart. So, we are undertaking a HUGE project this year, that is...Landscaping the yard. Little did I know we were apparently starting it today. Here is how my morning has gone thus far... I awoke today to find Brian biting at the bit asking me how we're going to landscape our backyard. HELLO...I just woke up, what is he talking about. I slowly came to my senses and told him that I still needed to consult with the ever fabulous most talented sister in the world (shout out to Leah). He told me that he wanted to start TODAY and that he needed something to do. WHAT?!? I told him that if he would have prepared me for starting our Spring (Summer, Fall, Winter and next Spring) project today, I would have been slightly more prepared. So, I told him to go get me a piece of paper so I could roughly map out our backyard and try to start coming up with something for him to do. He handed me a piece of paper, then told me that he better draw it and up he went to find his ruler. He got back and proceeded to draw (it was WAY off scale) I told him that we probably needed graph paper and to measure the yard, at this comment he gave me a look only Brian can give and handed me the paper and told me that I should draw it then. Needless to say I told him to go out and do whatever he wanted if he really wanted something to do. Well, I think I hear a chainsaw now, so I'll post later.