This weekend, we did a little <very little> yard work (clean-up and surveying of the damage caused by another Winter). As we walked around the yard to plan out what needs to be tackled this Spring, we noticed that our Aspen grove seemed really sparse compared to how it looked in the fall. We were very puzzled at first but, with a little investigation, the pieces eventually fell into place.

Turns out we have our very own arborist living under our roof!

Our precious son & his friends needed to prune ‘a branch’ for their tractor road and discovered the lost art of tree trimming. There is now enough room there for a 6-lane highway! I hope that our sad little grove will come back and that our son’s new found talent is just that ~ wisdom and a wonderful green thumb. With a little refinement, it could come in handy. As most of you know I have a definite brown thumb.

Needless to say, the punishment was grim and almost harsh. Our little guy is banned from Staples, Office Depot and Office Max for 30 days. <Ouch!>

For all of your tree trimming (or tree eliminating) needs please call us, we will hook you up!

Days proceeding this rather fun day, we as a family were called to a mission, that mission was finding 100 little somethings that would reflect Hays’ personality. While out one day H and I spotted these really fun, stripped, jumbo paperclips. So, with T-shirt in hand, paperclips purchased the next task was getting them on the shirt. <Super Dad enters>

For some strange reason, I managed to convince Kip that I wouldn’t be able to ‘sew’ the clips onto this shirt (it was rather daunting to me). So Super Dad spent his free time doing this not-as-easy-as-we-thought-task. I felt bad (really I did) because it really was not easy. It did turn out rather cute and H seemed very pleased with it.

On the 100th Day of School, I was able to join the class in their celebration. We are very blessed with our school, our teachers and the families of the children in his class.