The day we lost a tree.....

Today we lost a big tree in our backyard after what we assume to be caused by heavy winds.  We were driving home from the store and came in the back way through our subdivision, instead of our normal way, and as we were passing by our house we noticed that our tree had fallen down. 

This wasn't necessarily a bad thing as we knew that we had to cut our tree down because it was dead, but have been working on other things so it wasn't really a priority. We felt especially blessed because it could not have fallen any more perfectly than it did. We initially were worried about making sure it fell properly when we talked about cutting it down and now we don't have to worry about that. 

Obviously the boys wanted to climb it.

Here is the view from our deck. I think the only way it could have fallen better would have been on our deck so we could have made an insurance claim and gotten a new one :). I kid! (Kind of)

Our awesome neighbors came over and spent a few hours helping us cut it into small branches and clean up the mess. They were a huge help. 

Owen was an enormous help too!! He helped with the fire and also stacked up all of our new firewood, without being asked. He was overly awesome!

Little boy tried to help too and had an interesting technique using the hammer. 

But he was more occupied doing a lot of this. The boys were both such great helpers and we wanted to reward them, especially Owen, so we took them out for ice cream tonight!

After a lot of hard work. 

And this is where we left off tonight. 

It was definitely a kink in our day and an unexpected, unwelcomed surprise, however at the end of the day it needed to be done anyway, just happened to be not be convenient to our timing. 

We were just thankful no one was hurt and it was easy enough for us to do ourselves so we didn't have to pay someone else big money to do it!