The Longest Day

I call this the longest day because it started with grocery shopping, followed by a soccer game, working outside with Danny and dinner with Eileen, Mo and Caroline. Eileen knew that I was taking her to dinner for her birthday, but she didn't know that Maureen and Caroline were going to be there, too, until, that it, she saw Caroline's car parked right out in front of the restaurant! We enjoyed a nice dinner, four sisters together, celebrating another year for Eileen. Danny came over to help out mostly with landscaping. In addition to trimming the trees and plants in the front yard and helping out with the gutters, he also helped us move three small pine trees, a maple tree and a holly tree out of the garden bed to the backyard. (Thanks, Danny, we couldn't have done all of that without you!)

Anyway, it was a long day! Here's the pictures to prove it:

Here's the before picture (except for that little piece on the left).

Mark and Danny working on putting up the gutters.

The rain prevented more work on the gutters, so we gave the crab apple tree a hair cut. Now we can sit on the front porch and see the road!

Zack decided, all on his own, to help clean up the branches. It was so cute watching him load them up in the wheelbarrow and bring them to the backyard to dump them.

I guess the ladder wasn't working at this point?

Check it out--a man who knows how to read directions!

Playing Wii bowling after dinner...

Me and Mama's Boy

Xander getting a taste of Eileen's birthday cake

Five goofy McFadden's: Maureen, Caroline, Danny, Eileen and me