Birthday Party Preparations

The eye sore has been cleared out. This "fort" was here when we bought the house. It was fun at first. Ugly, but fun. Ayden is a great climber, so it was fun for a while for him. He only fell once, because he was trying to climb up the ladder with a big dump truck toy in one hand. Nothing traumatic, he fell flat on his back. The wind wasn't even knocked out of him. HOWEVER... Ian is our clumsy little boy. He just barely mastered climbing onto our kitchen chairs. Every time the boys play in the back yard, I become paranoid that he will try to climb up that thing. I also get a little worried when Ayden has friends over, because I don't want any of them to fall from that height. So, I convinced Josh to chop it down. He borrowed a chainsaw from our friend, Jimbo and had some fun playing demolition derby. Our backyard looks SO MUCH BETTER!!! Now we're on a search for a good swingset/slide deally. Our garbage men pick up trash piles on Thursdays, so they better not let us down! We have a heap of wood to be picked up, and I hope it's gone before Ian's big day this Saturday. Let me translate for Ian in the video. He said, "Daddy make house".