Snow on APRIL 16!?!?!?

So this is the sight that we woke up to this morning....
I was on my way out the back door and I opened our blinds and this is what I saw. A huge branch from the tree behind our house crashed down onto our car last night. Since it is the middle of April and spring is suppose to be here all of the trees are blooming and getting their leaves, well they were not all prepared for a big snow storm. So, with the extra weight of the new leaves and all of the snow and ice it caused many limbs and trees to break.
Luckily Shawn hadn't left for campus yet, so him and a neighbor and I had to get the huge tree limb off the car-it was about 8-10 inches around at the base and probably weighed about 400 pounds-it was huge. The branch was now off of the roof of the car but now it blocked the driveway and I couldn't get out, so Shawn and our other neighbor had to cut the branch apart with a chain saw and move it out of the way. In the meantime we moved the car up on the lawn to get it out of the way and it got stuck in our grass and snow in the back yard.
And to top it all off I slipped in the snow and hyper-extended my surgery-recovering knee.

What a crazy morning-and all because of this snow storm in the middle of April! Part of the tree branch after it was moved off of the car.

Here is a picture of Shawn standing back behind the tree branch.

Endless Shrimps!!!

I told Shawn and Brock that we could go and get endless shrimps at Maglebys Restaurant after they worked hard tearing out the ugly trees in from of our house on Saturday. My coupon was only valid from Monday thru Thursday, so we waited until Tuesday which was also the boys last day of classes for winter semester too. I hate shrimp so I got a soup and salad and waited and watched as both Brock and Shawn ate almost over 100 shrimps together!

Easter 2009

This Easter Shawn and I went and enjoyed a nice day of church. We came home and had a nap, then I started preparing our Easter feast. Brock came by after his ward got done and we enjoyed a very "traditional Nelson" Easter dinner-it was so yummy. Then we got our Easter baskets from my parents and enjoyed a very lazy and relaxingly Sabbath day at home. Shawn and I before church

Shawn with his new Easter tie from my parents

And Brock and Shawn eating some strawberry shortcake for dessert.

Time to trim some trees!

Shawn and I really do love our little house that we rent each month...but the only thing that we would love to do without are the 3 huge, ugly, and overgrown trees that are in front of the house. They are horrible trees and the worst part about them are that they house millions of little bugs in the summer time. We finally had it with the trees and called our landlords and asked if we could rip cut the trees down. They agreed. Brock showed up Saturday morning and him and Shawn got to work. They cut all 3 trees down and got rid of all of the branches, the project got postponed for a bit because of the rain and because Brock does have a social life and did not want to spend his whole Saturday tearing down trees. Now there are 3 stumps left-that will be taken out soon.
I don't have post pictures left...but man things look so much better now.
Here is a before shot of Shawn in front of our very brown house.

I will have to get a post shot and get it up soon.