Our Landscaping Project: Day 1

We have been having a full, exciting summer. We had planned on doing some home improvements and we are now in full swing! We are focusing on the landscaping of our home. We had a lot of beautiful pine trees and mature bushes. The downside of the bushes being they were too overgrown. Some of the trees were ruining our driveway. So, here are some pictures from Monday, day 1, of our landscaping adventure...

Joe cut this tree down from the south side of the house. It was a "Carrot tree", a very messy tree that has been tricky to keep clean--though the children will miss the little seeds that they loved to play target practice with--we won't miss the mess!

We rented this dumpster and hoped to fit all our trees in. Joe carefully cut the branches and we trimmed the smaller branches off and laid them all in the same direction and then jumped on them to compact them. Our question was: would all four trees fit??? We all worked to make them. Some cut branches and a stump and the beginning of a wood pile in the far left.

Abbie made an "A" out of a few logs. :)