Marshmallows, Anyone???

Tonight was the night to begin the work to prepare the backyard for the new to us pool.
Jason, Erica and their kiddos pitched in.

Here's the back yard before we began:

Here's the brush pile while it was still small
(really, this is small compared to what it looked like when we finished. The guys cut down 3 trees)

Pictures of the fire with the kids dancing

around it turned out pretty cool:

After we had all the brush on the burn pile
and it had burned down quite a bit we ate blackened marshmallows. This is one hot fire!!!

After we'd had our fill, we went back to work on picking up more brush and branches. We soon became sidetracked and began swinging on the grape vines.

Cam and Riley (aka silly monkeys)

Erica and I even had a go:

Marty decided to give Jason a push:

Marty's attempt to jump rope with a grape vine:

It is rarely dull around here!