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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Trimming the Palm Trees





These top pictures are the finished product of a long day of hard work. We still need to shave them, but it's very time consuming and will take us some time to do. Pictures really don't do it justice because they look so much better than they did before.
Josh on the fork lift trimming the trees! We had a huge mess to clean up when we were done.

Josh shaving the palm tree. It looks so much better to have them shaved, but it is very messy and time consuming.
This is one of the nicer trees because it is has been shaved.
Here you can see what we had to clean up once the trimming was done! So much fun!
We started out with a ladder and a saw...we finished with a fork lift and a chainsaw/cutter. We never would have finished without this nice piece of machinery!
Here you can see all the dead palm leaves...then you can see the neighbors trees...I am sure all sorts of creatures are living in their very overgrown palm trees. I am just glad that ours were not that bad!

Josh kept finding wasp nests, so he had a can of spray with him at all times! There was no way for him to run away...the spray worked wonders!
Yesterday we had a family work day and it literally took us all day long to finish it. I had been wanting to trim our palm trees since the day we moved in. Being from Oklahoma, I had no idea how to even start the process. We had a guy come and do 2 of our smallest tree's and that cost us $150. We had 6 more trees left and they were the tallest ones. At $10 a foot, we were looking at spending a whopping $1,000. I just couldn't pay that amount of money for my trees to be trimmed. 2 years later, we finally got motivated to get the job done and do it ourselves. By the end of the day we had a great system in place and I could say we are great palm tree trimmers not. In fact, a lady drove by and asked if we trimmed palm trees. I simply said, " only our own, my husband never wants to trim another palm tree after today!" We still need to shave 4 of them, but like I said earlier, it takes a lot of time and is so messy! For now I am happy with what we accomplished! Our neighbors would all drive by on their 4 wheelers on their way to have fun on a beautiful Saturday and we kept working our little hearts out! Next Saturday we will definitely be having some fun!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Ty's 1st Birthday!









We had a really fun birthday party for Ty! All of his aunts, uncles, and cousins who live nearby came for the party. Ty didn't like the birthday hat, but loved the birthday cake, especially the frosting. By the time he was done, he had frosting everywhere. We thought he would be so sick after all the cake he ate, but he surprised and did fine. He loved all the presents he got and had a lot of fun playing with them afterwards. However, he had a hard time opening presents because he wanted to play with what he had just opened, so he had a hard time when we took the gift away so he could open the next one. He got lots of great bo0ks, which he loves. He also got a new Tonka Truck that makes lots of fun sounds...he likes to ram it into the door. He got this fun green ball and would laugh every time Josh would squish it up like in the picture above. He also got a fun pistol set that we will be using as part of his Halloween costume. I think all his cousins had a great time with all the new toys and helping him open them. It was a house full of wild and crazy kids, but we had a great time. We still can't believe that Ty is already a year old. It has gone by so fast, but we love the stage he is at right now...so much energy.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Ty Flying









While we were at the Jensen Reunion, Granpa got these great pictures of Ty flying through the air. His daddy and Uncle Seth had fun throwing him back and forth and I am pretty sure that Ty loved every second of it too.

Grandma and Grandpa Jensen's House


Ty was having a great time driving the big tractor. I just thought these were the cutest pictures of him. He looks so tiny compared to that big tractor.



Ty on Grandpa's 4 wheeler. I am sure he had a great time turning the handles. He gets really mad when you don't let him drive or when you take him off.




I love these pictures of Ty and the kitty! He was so funny with the Kitty, but I think he misses having the kitty around now that he's back home.
Grandpa loves to carry Ty around in the pack, but the pack is too small for him now, so he crated a fun way to still use it.




While Josh and I were gone this summer on our white water rafting trip in Oregon, Ty stayed with his grandma and grandpa. They had so much fun watching Ty for us and took some really great pictures. I finally got them and wanted to share them with all of you.