Surprises and Spring Decor

 This was the road to our house in January 2009.  I was in Tulsa at the time with Harper in the NICU.  I missed the Big Ice Storm (although it came to Tulsa first) but it was one of the worst storms our area has ever experienced.  We lost so many trees and there were huge limbs down EVERYWHERE!

Hubs has worked since then, as many people have, on clearing our land of all the fallen debris.  He has spent many hours cutting wood and burning wood.  But it has been an overwhelming job and we said back when it happened that it would probably take several years (if ever) for all the wood to be cut.

So since Hubs was out of town this past week for a mission conference in Tennessee, I decided to surprise him with a little project of my own!  All the while, hoping he wouldn't be too upset with me because he is a do-it-yourself kind of guy!

The day after he left for the conference, I hired someone to come out and help get some of the dead trees and limbs cleaned up between our house and his shop!  It was so interesting to watch that I spent most of the time upstairs looking out the window!  I would love to drive a bulldozer just one time!!

I had help keeping watch over the work being done.  Skipper was inside the front door watching the men work and Bobber was on the porch keeping an eye out for what was going on!!

Nothing escapes their watchful eyes!

Things looked much better when they left.  Hubs didn't get home till after midnight Saturday night from his flight into Little Rock so he didn't see anything in the dark.

He left for church around seven a.m. Sunday morning and we had a frost all over the car so he didn't notice it as he drove out toward town.

It wasn't until we got home from lunch after church that I finally told him "Go for a walk with me, I want to show you something!"

So we walked down the road to his shop and his mouth flew open!  He was very pleased and now I'm thinking of what else I can get away with!   har  har

I finally got out some "spring" decor to change the "winter" out of house even though I had this going this past week:

I woke up the other morning and I was soooooo cold and realized we had turned the heat off in our house.  But the temperature had dropped during the night down in the 40's and I was cold!

So I started the fireplace up and stood by it for awhile till I thawed out!

Here are some of my "Spring" decorations.  I love spring, don't you?  Just feel better all over when the sun is out and you can go outside without having three layers on!

Looking forward to a wonderful Easter week!

I've got two little Easter baskets of goodies to take to two sweet little girls!