Year: 2007

Mommy and I want to know why it takes until 2-am on a night when Mommy is alone in the house with me for the stupid smoke alarm in the garage to go NUTS! You would think that there were nice shinny daylight hours that it could have used to go “BEEP…BEEP…BEEP” at full high pitched volume. Poor Mommy stood by the fish-tank, Daddy’s office, the hallway and my room waiting for BEEPS! She finally figured it was in the garage… then spent another 20 minutes trying to figure out WHAT in the garage. Mommy is tired… because besides the beeping she had to calm a scared and screaming ME. Okay, back to bed…. ARGHS!

Well, today I decided to get myself in trouble with Mommy. When I was napping the landscapers came by to do some work with the lights in the backyard. When I woke up, Mommy and I were playing in the living room. The landscapers knocked on the door to pick-up a check and Mommy stepped onto the front porch to talk to them. Well, I decided that I really needed to play with the swing deadbolt on the front door. I think it was more that Mommy got mad at me for throwing a sippy cup at her head?? I locked Mommy out. UGH! I was a bit upset that she didn’t come back through the door. Eventually Mommy reappeared through the garage door. Mommy said, “Thank goodness for keyless garage door entry!”

Other than that… today was a quiet day for me. Finally. Only about 4 timeouts! Not bad!

Mommy is really strange when Daddy goes out of town for work. She usually gets all “crafty”. She keeps making me these STRANGE creatures out of socks! I really like them though. Thanks MOMMY!

She said she still needs to finish the mouth on this one. She made another…
I really like him because he is ultra squishy and soft.

What a weird Mommy I have! I miss my Daddy!

Today my friends Lily and Ethan came over to play. Here are a few pictures of me and Mr. Ethan along with Ethan’s Mommy, Jamie.

I had a really fun time… we need to do this more often! 🙂

We are both eating “Larabars” HIPPIE KIDS!

Ethan is one bad-mutha! hehe

Thanks for hanging out buddy!

Guess what Mommy & Daddy had done for me this week???

Here is the house BEFORE the transformation:

Front Walk

Courtyard

Courtyard facing street

Side Yard by shed

Annoying Tree that dumps leaf after leaf on David’s car

Side overgrowth

Butterfly Nightmare

Backyard…can’t move with all the trees

HUGE Orange tree and Arborvities

Here is DURING the transformation:

CRAZY Man in a tree with a chainsaw

Still Chopping

CHOPPED

ALL GONE

Naked Yard

Naked Sideyard

Nearly Naked Courtyard

Just a few survivors

HERE COME THE PLANTS AND PALMS:

First Load

Royal Palms are IN!

Breighton enjoyed the big trucks

Daddy in Arbor JAIL (ps: Cedar Arbors are HARD to find on no notice!)

Lone Lego Dude…NOT Breighton’s

Batman failed us… the still cut the cable and phone lines!

These guys work HARD

Dig dig dig carry carry carry

LOOK the ARBOR is in place

Breighton was a trooper!

FINISHED PROJECT (almost):

Backyard by shed

Same place further away

Other side of back yard

Courtyard (We will get a different bench…someday)

Backyard facing house

Closeup of Arbor

Courtyard

Courtyard

Courtyard facing street

Where the dump tree used to be.

Old butterfly nightmare

WOW! This was all pretty amazing. They came to give us the quote on Tuesday and today is Friday and it is ALLLLLLL DONE! Wow!
The crew worked hard and did a fantastic job. Only cut the sprinklers a few hundred times… but they fixed them all.

The new sod and fence go in next week sometime. We will post more pictures once that is done. There are lights on all the big trees and the arbor too!

The house is really coming along now. Glad we decided not to move.