Family that works together....

On Saturday, we were going to have a game night with John and Diane's family...  They offered to come and help us paint the arbor that we'd just peeled and readied before playing games.... We figured... why stop there?  They were amazing sports and let us use them to build and fill a garden box, paint the arbor, and cut down the cherry tree to replace it with a peach tree.  Thanks you amazing people you!

Don't the arbor and garden look nice!  The roses always look amazing on the arbor, and I'm excited to see if I can actually keep a garden alive this year (and if I can convice Evelyn that this is not her personal sand box).

I have mixed feelings about the cherry tree.  It was a beautiful tree but it was starting to have problems and we were out of room for the peach, and apple trees that we wanted to plant.  Well, it's down and hopefully soon we'll enjoy delicious peaches...

This is the one I'm really sad about.  I LOVE this tree.  It's an amazing shade and climbing tree.  But, it's rotting from the inside.  I don't want it to hurt my kids if it falls over, but I want my kids to enjoy it while they can.  My head says, "Cut it down now!" and my heart says, "Just wait another year."  Maybe I can compromise and move all the kids play stuff out from under the tree and just let them climb in it until it's time to take it out.... at least then they're less likely to be just playing under it.  My guess is that it's more likely to split in the winter with the snow though...