Bye Bye Tree

Just before Owen was born last summer one of the trees in our backyard was hit by lightening. It was the loudest noise I have ever heard!!! Over the last couple of months we noticed that the tree is dying and dropping a lot of limbs and branches. And over this past month we've had a lot of storms and have watched the tree sway more and more!

Unfortunately this tree provides most of the shade in our backyard as well being the tire swing tree! :( Today the tree people came and took our tree away!!!

Here are the girls watching the action! They were so captivated by all the machinery!

It was like an invasion!!! It was actually pretty impressive. We all stood and watched for a while! Mike came home on his lunch break just to see it!

And these are the after pictures! It looks so different now! And it's so sunny :) But the girls are excited to have a new climbing thing in their backyard. I am just kind of sad that Owen won't have ever gotten to ride the tire swing. Oh what hours of enjoyment my kids have gotten out of it over the last 4 years!!!! Goodbye old friend!!