Not too shabby

Yup.
here it is.

"The" tree.

The one I dug the hole for yesterday.

Couldn't pay the $100 delivery fee. So, Jim arrived home tonight with the tree in the back of his truck. Now, it is he and I, and wonderfully kind hearted 11 year old that wants to help in the worse way. Woah boy. Lots of Pa Dutch and Irish ingenuity ( we make a pretty good team!), and we got that 200 lb baby off the truck and into that hole ram rod straight. A pretty darn nice hole if I do say so myself ::::pats herself on the back::::::::: Not bad for a hefty chick and a middle aged dude with a bad neck. Being Do-It-Yourselfers does have it's rewards. It feels so good to look at something and know that you did it yourself. It is worth every sore muscle.

Of course now, my evil gardening mind is thinking that bed needs to be bigger, and wow, wouldn't some impatients look great under the tree.....not normal I tell ya, I am not normal.

God bless Jim, he stops midway through, and asks me if I am going to take any pictures for scrapping. I knew I loved his for a reason. My reply surprised me though. I said, no I probably won't scrap this, but I will blog it! So I ran and got the camera. I am loving this method of journalling. It is a great historical reference for all these every day things that really do not have a ton of pictures and journalling to go with them. Years from now we can look back at this, and see how big the tree was compared to Kaite, and smile. I may use the picture of her with the tree to do a page journalling her growth and maturing, but not a layout of putting the tree in. Man, has my scrapping style changed this year. Used to be one picture couldn't go un-"scrapped". (Is that even a word in the real world?) It has become much more important to me to document the important things. The thoughts, every day moments, my feelings, rather than every darn picture from every little event through out the year. This has grown into more of a journalling documenting hobby for me than simply the "get it into the album so someone can see it" hobby that it used to be. The pictures will always be here, digitally preserved for all to see. They don't need to be glued down to acid free cardstock to mean something. Wow.