These are some pictures to go along with the video of Man vs. Snake. This Racer Snake was just sitting out waiting for an unsuspecting bird, or person, to get close. His only mistake was choosing the wrong bush!
You can see his body twisted and sitting in the branches.
Andy getting ready to chop off his head and prune the bush at the same time!!
We have also done a little sculpting with play dough. The boys are getting pretty good at it and I need to encourage them to play with it more. Daniel's is a brown "snowman".
I think Bradley was going for the "deluxe snowman" look.
Recently Eliza has had some rough nights. By this I mean that she comes and finds me about 4-5 times a night. She just wants to be tucked back in I think. However, after a week of getting up 4-5 times every night with her, and occasionally once or twice with Daniel, I was exhausted!! Andy let me sleep in on a Saturday morning. He fed the kids, got them dressed and did Eliza's hair! Then after I got up and ready we went shopping, it was a tax free weekend, and he took care of getting school clothes for Bradley!
BEST DAD EVER!!
Eliza showing off Dad's due.
This was the first time he has ever done her hair other than put a clip into keep the front out of her face. He did pretty good!
About a month ago our neighbors tree broke in half during a rain storm. The winds hadn't been super bad, so we were pretty surprised to see it down.
Fortunately it didn't do any damage to the house of any cars.
Unfortunately we have the same kind of tree! I checked ours to see if it would hit my van since I park next to it. The way it is growing it won't hit the van, but it could hit the house.
With this in mind Andy took advantage of a Saturday afternoon to thin our a few branches. He took off quite a bit of weight on the side facing the house. I think we will wait until the fall when all the leaves are gone to thin out any more.
Andy climbing up into the tree to reach some of those higher branches.
Daniel with part of a branch he helped cut down.
Daniel and Bradley were very good to stick with their Dad the whole time. They helped cut branches, drag them to the yard bin and provided pop cycles when it got too hot.
This last Sunday Andy and the kids made this huge tower while I was doing my hair. It was pretty impressive! They had built it is such a way that cars and trucks could drive under it.
As you can see we have been enjoying Andy's current rotation (Anesthesia) since it give him more time at home. He isn't ever on call and he has every weekend off!! Plus he has some great stories when he comes home. We are looking forward to enjoying him through September and then we will have to see how the next rotation goes.
