Now you see it...

...and now you don't! 

My dad and Corey had some fun in the yard this weekend.  There was a tree at the end of our driveway that was diseased and we decided to take it down (which is exactly what every other neighbor has done in recent years for the same reason).

The guys started working on it on Saturday morning, and very shortly after, our neighbor (same one that remodeled our kitchen) came over to help, after borrowing a chairsaw from another neighbor.  Something about tools gets a guy every time, I swear.  It was a fairly large tree, so it was quite the undertaking.  At one point, branch piles were almost to the middle of our cul de sac.

Jackson liked supervising, and even served beer and pop for the guys. 

It's amazing how much of a difference taking down one tree can make.  Now we just need worry about getting rid of the bazillions of branches that are residing in our garage as they await their turn to make into the yard waste bin.