Finished for Friday - Pauline Bunyan

As previously mentioned, we went and cut firewood Labor Day weekend. Once home, it of course had to be cut up in to pieces small enough to accommodate our wood burning stove.
Who's idea was this anyways? Oh. Mine.
It started off really fun. My husband taught me how to use a chain saw (insert Tim Taylor "ooh ooh argh" here), so we cut up the majority of the longer pieces so they could be split. That's where this goes downhill fast...
So Paul Bunyan, a.k.a. Daddy starts splitting a few pieces of wood. He gets through about a dozen of them when he stops & says "I can't do this anymore". I turn around & he's hunched over like Quasimodo. EXCELLENT. He had pinched a nerve in his back. NICE. Now what.
Enter Pauline Bunyan.
Now I've swung a splitting maul about ooooh once in my life & nearly took off my own noggin in the process, so not a big fan of the maul. Well I got into one of my superwoman moods & started chopping.
I should mention that I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a baseball bat, so it's probably a good thing no one was witnessing the travesty that was unfolding in our driveway. I made lots of kindling...by accident. I think I did pretty good for a beginner. My back however would be inclined to disagree, as well as my left hand for some reason.
I got about 2 wheelbarrows filled in the span of just over 2 hours. Something that would probably take the husband about 20 minutes to do. *sigh* Hey, at least I tried & actually did enjoy myself for the most part. I just wish it didn't hurt so much afterwards! LOL!
Next on my list? Buy a blue ox.

The weapon tool of choice.

(Nice gloves too, huh? My husband bought them for me especially for the occasion!)

Looky what I can do!

What's still left to do: (This will get bigger too, we're going up again this weekend!)

Tune in for Finished for Friday next week when we rent a LOG SPLITTER!

Caught Up - Last Weekend - Firewood!!

We went up and started what will be a weekend tradition for the next few weeks. We cut firewood for this winter. This is the first time we've done it so it was quite the adventure. One I am paying for dearly now. Ugh! My back!

Catching Up # 4 - The Fire

Coming home from work on the night of August 26th, the closer I got to home, the more I noticed the orange glow in the sky.

Uh oh.

Yep, fire. One of the hills surrounding Emmett was on fire. It apparently started around 7 pm, & I got home around midnight, so it had already burned a good portion of the hill, but it still was going pretty good too thanks to the wind.

During:

After:

Catching Up # 3 - The Fair

We almost didn't get to go to the fair this year, but at the last minute I was able to get the last Friday of it off from work, so we went to see the animals. Oh yeah, & Blake Shelton! WOOHOO!

We gotta get us one of these!

Dude tries to snuggle with a goat.
Bath time!
Waiting for the concert to start.
The concert was GREAT! We had horrible seats (camera has good zoom), but it was still a great show with lots of suprises!

Catching Up # 2 - Bug's 3rd Birthday

Bug's birthday was August 13th, so we had her party the following Saturday in Emmett's City Park (as usual). It was a perfect day! It was a little breezy when we got there, but shortly after the wind died down and it was just perfect! I still can't believe my little teeny weeny is 3! *sigh*

OK mommy, we'll hug...if we have to.

Dude had a WALL-E cake for his birthday - so naturally we had to have EVE for Bug's party! (She did ask for an EVE cake, we didn't make her have EVE! LOL!)
Good cake!


Oh look, Cinderella came to Bug's party! That was so nice of her to show up!

WooHoo! Cabbage Patch Kid!

Playing Catch-Up #1 - Silverwood

The weekend before Bug turned 3 we decided to take advantage of the "under 3 free" admission & go to Silverwood Theme Park in Northern Idaho.
I just gotta say - I cannot WAIT to go back! It was great! We were there from open to close & had an AWESOME time - all of us! The kids loved every single ride we went on to the point of squealing on the majority of them! I laughed until I cried several times, and sometimes just cried at just watching my babies being big kids & riding rides, hugging costumed critters, & just having the best time ever in their so far short little lives! I can't wait to have more adventures like this with them!

They LOVED Garfield & we had a hard time convincing them to let him go! He loved them right back though & liked the extra huggins! :)

This is the train that runs through Silverwood. According to the narrator, it was the first "ride" at Silverwood & Gary Norton (the creator of Silverwood) outbid Disney for the engine! Cool huh?!

View from the Ferris wheel!

I finally got brave enough (yes me, not the kids) to let the kids try a ride by themselves. Silverwood has a great "kid land" full of rides that only the peanuts can go on, no big kids or parents! THEY LOVED IT! Once Bug finally figured out the lever made the plane go up & down, that was all she wrote! They rode ride after ride! We finally had to convince them to let mommy & daddy ride some too!

Waiting for the helicopters to start moving. HURRY UP ALREADY!