SURPRISE!

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

Here is the house BEFORE the transformation:

Front Walk
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Courtyard
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Courtyard facing street
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Side Yard by shed
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Annoying Tree that dumps leaf after leaf on David’s car
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Side overgrowth
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Butterfly Nightmare
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Backyard…can’t move with all the trees
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HUGE Orange tree and Arborvities
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Here is DURING the transformation:

CRAZY Man in a tree with a chainsaw
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Still Chopping
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CHOPPED
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ALL GONE
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Naked Yard
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Naked Sideyard
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Nearly Naked Courtyard
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Just a few survivors
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HERE COME THE PLANTS AND PALMS:

First Load
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Royal Palms are IN!
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Breighton enjoyed the big trucks
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Daddy in Arbor JAIL (ps: Cedar Arbors are HARD to find on no notice!)
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Lone Lego Dude…NOT Breighton’s
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Batman failed us… the still cut the cable and phone lines!
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These guys work HARD
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Dig dig dig carry carry carry
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LOOK the ARBOR is in place
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Breighton was a trooper!
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FINISHED PROJECT (almost):

Backyard by shed
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Same place further away
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Other side of back yard
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Courtyard (We will get a different bench…someday)
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Backyard facing house
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Closeup of Arbor
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Courtyard
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Courtyard
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Courtyard facing street
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Where the dump tree used to be.
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Old butterfly nightmare
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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.

Update on my BIG boy bed

I am doing really well sleeping in my new bed. Yesterday I woke up at 5-am and thought it was time to get up and start my day. Mommy didn’t come when I called her name so I opted for knocking on the door to my room until she came in to get me. She put me back in bed and told me to go back to sleep. I did, for a little while! I really think knocking on the door gets Mommy going faster in the morning, but then she is grumpy. Today I opted for clicking the light switch on and off and on and off…. then I shouted for Mommy, that worked. I haven’t decided how I will wake Mommy and Daddy up tomorrow. It will be a surprise.

At nap-time I really haven’t wanted to go to sleep. But Mommy puts me in the bed and leaves the room, I get out of bed and play for a few minutes and then crawl back into my bed and take my nap. I like things on my terms.