Yesterday we finally got around to cutting down the stupid hedges on our property, Angelika wants to put a garden in and i want a fence cause ugly shrubs arent cutting it. I started the day at 8:30 and used an axe, very indiana jones style, and went to town on the shrubs. After about an hour and a half i had removed about a 1/4 of the shrubs and left the stumps, then my dad showed up with a chainsaw and within 10 minutes every shrub was cut and i was dragging them into our yard, i posted the before and after pictures, you can see in the first picture how far the shrubs originally came out when we moved in, my father in-law cut those out of the way last year using a grinder with a saw blade, he managed to only cut the cord on his grinder once and thats it, i still think he is crazy. The second picture is of course after and you can already see how much more light is shining into the yard. 

These are Madison's giant blow up boxing gloves, she quite enjoyed running around the house with them on. Madison has also learned to say hockey, or a very poor version of hockey, but makes me proud nonetheless and she sat with me during a penalty shot and cheered (naslund missed but she cheered anyway). 

Angelika started to decorate madisons room with her sister michelle, its starting to look pretty sweet. We also had brad and colleen over last night and played some ticket to ride, this is the second time in two weeks that i have failed horribly in this game and will have to resort to cheating.