Jeff's Hard Work

The past couple of weekends. We have been working on cleaning up our yard and taking out some old tree stumps and planting our small garden... here are some of the pictures of our work...











This was a apple tree that fell down before we had the house.. we finally got the stump out. Jeff
dug it out with just the shovel.. well he broke the first one, we had to go buy a new one then.. Tietjen is standing in the hole about chest level on him...



















This is the Pine tree that we cut down last spring.. we rented the stump grinder and after 2 1/2 hours we got it down to ground level.. Tietjen loved the sawdust (with his trains)

Tietjen Rides a BIKE

Yesterday, we spent the day at my sister Kimberly's home in Pocatello. They have a bike with training wheels and Tietjen wanted to try riding it. He did so good as you will see in the video. He did have to shift his weight to reach the pedel on the down push. He is getting to be such a big boy. I guess we know what his next birthday present will be.... ENJOY!!

The Sand Box

Where do I start... the Sand Box. When we moved to our home 2 1/2 years ago.. the previous owners or someone in the past left a huge tire from a tractor.. which I wanted to convert to a sandbox. Last summer our neighbors went out to the dunes to get sand for theirs and had extra leftover and filled ours also.

Tietjen loves to play in it... Anna Belle it took a couple of times before she would sit in it. Tietjen has been playing in the sandbox all month of April. Even when it was cold, he was out there in his snow gloves and coat. I was just gratefull for some of that engery getting out of him.

Here is some pictures showing our times in the sand box........

We made a birthday cake out of sand with old kitchen utinsiles for the candles.

Here is Tietjen very upset because he turned on the hose and put water in the sandbox, then he wanted me to take the water out of it....