Productive Weekend!

We finally had a weekend where we had NOTHING planned!

We thought we would take advantage of it and get things done around the house, and boy did we get things done!!

We had two main things to get done- trim the trees in the backyard and clean the basement!

Matt had gotten a trailer from his dad earlier in the week, so he was outside about 9 am with his saw and was trimming branches. Our trees had taken over our backyard! Some of them were hanging down to the ground, some were hanging over the slide, some were in the way of the swings, and the biggest problem was that the grass underneath the trees was dying because it couldn't get any sun!  Matt trimmed ALL the trees so he could stand underneath them again and not get hit by branches!

By the time he was done, it looked like a huge wind storm had come through because we had huge tree branches all over our yard!

Megan and I helped Matt haul them to the front of the house where he cut the branches up even further and put them in the trailer. He ended up making two trips out to the local dump (costing $17 each time!) to dump the branches.

Our back yard looks so much better!!!!

Our other goal this weekend was to clean the basement. Courtney and her slime habit had taken over down there, and it was a disaster!!  Our basement is not fully finished either, and Matt said he cannot work on it anymore until it gets cleaned up.  About 2 pm, Matt, Courtney, and I headed downstairs to work. It was amazing how much slime we found everywhere.  It was stuck to the cement floor in many places, stuck on her table, in the kitchen area, and just in places it shouldn't be!!

We had two HUGE sacks of garbage and everything (various craft supplies, tools, etc.) back in its place by about 5 pm.  Matt had even taken the initiative and put up some woodwork! I was thrilled!!  He only needs to finish the woodwork and then we can put down some flooring. It has been stuck like this for at least the last five years! I would love to make it into a usable space, especially this winter when I will have two boys bouncing off the walls!

We just need another weekend down there, and we could probably finish the cleaning. I am not sure what Matt wants to put down for flooring.  I just want it done, so we can use it...and maybe turn it into a school room??