Tree Huggers

Hi! I am doing much better, thanks for everyone's concerns and emails. I haven't had any contractions since Wednesday - yay! Even then they were just tiny and not that painful (on Wednesday that is). So it seems that for now Paiton has decided to stay put in her nice, warm little home. Good choice :) I am now working only part time and from home, which is nice, but I kind of feel like I'm doing more work for less money! Not nice!
Here are the pictures of Matt, Dad, and Spencer attacking the tree in our backyard. Basically we have HUGE trees all around our house, which is really nice in the summer because they are so mature and offer lots of nice shade and squirrels :) But in the winter we have soooo many leaves to pick up and anytime there's a storm we have tons and tons and tons of branches. Plus, this particular tree is blocking the view we need to have satelite TV installed! So the boys decided to tackle the problem by cutting down a bunch of the branches....Here's what happened!

Here they have cut down a few branches but there's one left that they REALLY want to get down. They had to get some rope to help...
Oops. The branch cutter pieces separated and are now swinging from the tree!
Putting all their effort into breaking that branch, it just would not budge!
Things are getting serious now...
Dad ends up on the ground, and still the branch will not snap!

Not going to give up!!We are making some progress and have moved across the yard...
YAY!! They finally got it!! Way to conquer it boys!!!!

I had some pictures from Brandon that I was trying to put up here, but it says they're corrupt so it won't let me. He got to spend a few days in Bahrain and didn't have to work. I think he had fun while he was there. He called all of us a few time. He sounded good and seemed to be having fun, it was really fun to get calls from him!! I wish I could upload the pictures, there is one that is kind of funny of a Starbucks! The sign is both in English and in whatever language people in Bahrain speak! It was funny to see the men sitting in there drinking their coffee in their big gowns and turbans! Starbucks has apparently taken over the world!!