A Saturday Well Spent

Here we are taking a break from the hard days work.





I spent half the time helping with washing windows and the other half helping Rog with the bushes. We accomplished so much today. What a good feeling. It's nice to have the kids help since we're getting kinda old. Ha Ha.


Thanks to Shana and Brayden and Daxton for helping us. It would have taken us a lot longer without them. So much appreciated.



Shana helped a ton by washing the windows on the outside and inside. We all spent the Saturday working together and it was great fun. Not one complaint (except that the ladder was too heavy for Shana to carry haha). And yet her old mama could do it. :)

This is a project that Roger has wanted to do for quite some time. I just haven't been able to bring myself to part with these bushes until today though. They've added privacy to our home and they also were bushes that had been planted there when my mom bought our home 32 years ago so I guess it was a sentimenal thing. But I finally tired of them and agreed to have them pulled out. Everyone worked so hard to remove them and it was a real hot day today so we were all sweating. Shana is in the background doing the windows.

Brayden and Daxton got their clothes on at 8 a.m. and went outside ready to start pulling out the bushes. What troopers they were. They thought that was so cool seeing them uprooted.

Papa and Daxton are carefully replacing the dirt on our new plant. It's supposed to get about 5' tall with spiral looking flowers on it. I can't wait to see it when it's matured.

Here's what it looks like so far. We haven't gotten all of the flowers and plants we want yet but we'll get them in soon. Daxton is helping Papa dig a big hole for one of the plants.

Brayden and Daxton spent all day helping us with washing windows and pulling out the shrubs and planting the new ones. They each earned some money for doing it and now can go and buy themselves something fun. They were such hard workers and never complained. They just pitched in and spent all day outside helping.