Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The finished project....

The pictures in the previous post were the building in progress. Here is the finished tree fort. The first two levels were put up by a friend of ours, but Ian did a marvelous job on the third level!






He also put up a ZIP LINE! The kids love it a lot.

This little cutie pie is now ten months old! (Her first year is flying by)



Sunday, June 20, 2010

Happy Father's Day!

Ian,

You are an amazing daddy, the last few days you've spent working hard (up a tree) are just a glimpse of what you do for them.....




We LOVE you!!



Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Thursday, June 3, 2010

How sharp is your axe?

There's a story that I'm sure many of you have heard about two loggers going out to the woods to cut down a tree. One takes the time to sharpen his axe, while the other just starts chopping away. The man who sharpened his axe can chop down the tree faster and with less effort than the man with the dull axe.

I was just standing doing the dishes a few minutes ago thinking about how this story can apply to so many different things in life. Here I was scrubbing away and I noticed that I have two sponges, one that I've had awhile and a newer one. The older one has softened over time and doesn't scrub nearly as well as the newer one. I believe that my time/effort is worth the money to buy a new sponge when needed just as the man's time was well spent to sharpen his axe.

It just made me wonder what other parts of my life this can be applied to. Are there other areas where my axe is dull?