Reed was the second to cut off limbs. He had a little more of a challenge. They couldn't put the ladder so he had a good hand hold with his right hand. That meant that he needed to hold on to the limb he was cutting with his left until right before he was all the way through and then switching to his right hand to cut with. He did a good job though. Blake held on to the ladder great. One of the large limbs that Reed cut came right down on Blake but he held onto the ladder and let the limb hit him. I don't know if that was obiedient, loyal, brave or stupid. We will go with brave. 

Dad did the clean up cuts on the tree after the boys cut down the main branches. We have some good light in that portion of the yard now. I hope the grass and apples trees do better now. 

Mickayla wanted a flower garden. So Blake and I bricked the border and then I took her shopping for plants to plant in her garden. You can't see it well but she has a lot of beautiful flowers. She didn't last long planting the plants. Erin, Reed, Blake and I finished it after she was done. It only took a few minutes before she was board and wanted to play. OH to be young again. 

This is the new grass Brett got us and all the plants that we planted this week. The front plants will grow to about 3 feet at the most. The plants by the back fence will grow to 6 feet. You can hardly see them right now. 

This is a little out of order but this is what the yard looks like now. The rest of the story is below. 

Reed had an exciting spring break. It ended up involving all of us. He worked on his senior project. The project involved researching out plants that grow well in shade and landscaping our yard. Brett was able to get a palete of grass for us free so Reed rotatiled up the ground and he and I layed it down. Then we spent the rest of the week buying and planting plants. It was a busy week but everything looks beautiful. 

Reed and I spent between conference sessions laying sod. 

Reed did a water color plan of where all the plants would go. 

Reed, Blake, Erin, Mickayla and I worked hard planting plants for two days. 

Even Will got into the project. 

When ever William gets fussy this is what he wants. He loves being upside down!!!!  

We moved everyone around when Erin and Brett moved in. Blake moved back to the "cold" room, Reed moved upstairs to his old room and Erin and Brett took the downstairs room. The room Reed was taking needed to be painted badly. He took the "blue room". Dad took down the dolphin border and then Erin and Reed painted it. They painted the room light tan with a dark green accent wall. As you can see they had a lot of fun doing it. Erin looked rather funny. She had a pair of my jeans on. I don't know how she kept them up. Brett and I finished up the job by putting on the second coat. The room looks rather nice. 

The family at Grandma's after the wedding. We sure filled the house, but it was sure fun. 

This is the family at the Wrestling awards banquet. Everyone close by came to support the boys. It was great. It was a very long evening, but nice. 

Blake received an award at the wrestling banquet. He was one or two wrestlers to receive an acedemic award. Good for Blake, bad for our wrestling team. Blake also received a certificate so he could letter in wrestling. (Of course he already had the letterman jacket with his letter sewn on. It is good he really did letter. He was excited to wear the jacket the next day!) 

Reed recieving one of his many awards at the Wrestling Awards night. 

Reed is receiving one of his awards at the Wrestling Banquet. He received four awards. 1. The Most Major Decisions. 2. The Most Technical Falls. 3. The Most take downs 4. This was the Most impressive. He got the coaches award for being a great wrestler in both character and wrestling. We were very proud of him. He got this award in both Wrestling and Football. 

On Monday Dad and I took Maike, Scott, Candice and Mickayla to the San Juan Islands. We took a ferry to Orcas Island. Here we are waiting for the ferry. The wind is cold but it isn't to bad. We had no idea what was coming. When we got to Orcas Island the road was closed going up to Mt Constitution. Usually we enjoy a nice drive up to a gorgeous view. When we got there we found the road was closed. Little did we know that it was beause of deep snow. We were soon to find out. We were dressed for a drive not a long hike through the snow but we decided to hike up the mountain. We made it though, with a little trouble and a very worn out little girl. She got carried down the mountain by every one but me. I gave her a sled ride on my coat for a little ways and then I left the group to hike down a little faster to go get the car and drive it closer to the the gate so they wouldn't have to go as far. (It only shortened the hike a little.)Each of the rest of them had to carry Mickayla down the mountain. We used the road not the trail for the down hill hike. It made it easier for Kim and I where we didn't have hiking shoes on. We were all very tired at the end. It was an event we will NEVER forget!! 

We stopped for some fun on the way. We didn't know that further up the mountain we would have all the snow we wanted. We thought this was going to be as deep as it came.  

Scott was funny in our snowball fight. Just like any smart married man he used his wife as a shield.