Timber!!!!!!!

We have some very tall trees around our house. One was over 100 feet tall. When the wind blew it seemed like the trees would blow right down on our house, so we hired a man in our ward (he's 74 years old & has 8 GG children) to come and cut them down for us. He owns a tree removal business, but he got right up in that cherry picker and cut trees down for hours & then chipped the branches & hauled the wood away. It took 2 full days to finish. You should have heard the 'BOOM' when those trees came down. Our neighbors could feel it at their house. I think it shook the whole house. Oh, did I mention that he did that at 7 am? Yes, 7am. I would have gotten out there to take a picture had I been dressed!! I'm so glad they're gone though. It's so much brighter in our house! I got a video clip of the pine tree being 'topped', but I couldn't download the video. It was pretty cool though. Here are some pics of the excitement.

100 foot pine tree

The boys watching from the roof!

Matt, Eric & Adam

The Sicamore tree coming down

Matt got a 'paddle' of wood from Brother Ganoe. He kept throwing cool stuff to the boys as he was cutting it down like branches with red leaves on them and the sicamore tree balls (seeds). They thought that was pretty cool.

Sicamore tree branches on the ground