and the projects just get bigger and bigger...

yesterday was a busy day. not only did i finish building the greenhouse, but the digging guy came and helped us finally reclaim our yard again after installing the geothermal heating. he was amazingly fast and leveled the yard really nicely. i was also nice to have to shovel the last ten tons of dirt by hand!
and there we have it. a big even, though not level yard that is just waiting for some grass.
meanwhile inside the girls were super good while we were working. they just cuddled up and watched a movie together. too cute.
and then after fixing the yard. they dug up the side of the house for fixing the draining, and they dug up a big section of the driveway so we can lay stones. the projects just keeping piling up!
pappa managed to get a well earned snuggle session with the girls out in the greenhouse. but he does not get to rest for long! poor pappa!

another productive weekend at the thorens

so we started saturday morning off with our very first breakfast in the new greenhouse, even though it was not officially finished, we figured it was close enough. it ended up being almost too warm, but it was exciting to break in our new cozy space.after breakfast thomas and zoe screwed down the boards in the flooring. zoe was in charge of the screws, handing them to pappa one at a time. and he was NOT allowed to hold them in his mouth. it was very cute. but pappa took too long, so zoe came over and insisted on a picture of us in the greenhouse as well. she has really gotten into self portraits. i got a new cellphone that has a camera and she insists on taking fotos of her or me whenever she sees it.
then i had to put in a foto of zoe inspecting my tiny little tomato plants that are coming up. i am just hoping that it is not going to freeze overnight again. we are seeing tiny little green heads poking up here and there elsewhere in the greenhouse, but these were the first of the year. i am so excited, i cannot wait for all the homegrown tomatoes, unless zoe gets to them first like last year.
then after the screwing down of the floor, pappa decided to be even more productive and started cuttting down our chesnut tree. i know, i know, but it is not the kind of chesnuts you can eat, and it just litters tons of chesnuts on our lawn every year so that nothing can grow. not to mention that our neighbors have complained (very nicely mind you) that blocks alot of sun in their garden in the summertime. here is a pic of zoe holding up pappa in the tree. see? he is standing on her hands. she thought that was hilarious. now the tree is completely bare, well almost, pappa left enough branches so that we could hang zoe´s swing, which she is loving, finally has a swing close enough to the ground that she can swing by herself. i am looking forward to reclaiming our yard that was unusable due to chesnut dropage.

spring cleaning with a photo shoot.

this last weekend was a productive one, thomas managed to replace zoe´s window, which was good as the old one was so old that it was falling apart. we also did a bit of yard work, mostly raking up old leaves.
zoe was a reall big help. luckily one of our rakes had broken recently so it was exactly the right size for her.
she also insistedon holding thomas´ hand while he sawed down one of our trees. i think it made the job just a bit more difficult for him. but he of course claimed that he was getting his power and energy from the little monster holding his hand. i just looked at the picture and realized that letting a two and a half year old hold a big saw might not have been the smartest of parenting techniques, but she survived, so all´s well that ends well.
we then had a bit of a photo shoot, zoe was having so much fun climbing in the tradgård tunnan, that i had to get a few shots.


she was a real big help jumping on them so that we could get more in. i loved this shot of her with the leaves, pappa kept throwing them on her, but she did not seem to mind.





and this last shot i just thought was a cute one. but then i think any shot of zoe is cute, of course i am biased cause she is my kid, but i am sure the rest of the world think she is just as adorable as i do!