friends and firewood...lots of firewood

last weekend we had our friends tamara and danny come over. we love spending time with them and their daughter's paige and lillyanne. you might recognize tamara's name from this post about her dad. you'll be happy to know he's doing well and was moved from icu to the stroke unit. he's been thumb wrestling with tam and he sat in a chair the other day as well. the power of prayer is amazing and he is a true testament to that!

danny and john spent the majority of the day in the woods at my dad's and mikey lutz's cutting wood to be used for firewood. this is wood that we'll split and season to be used for camp fires while camping this spring/summer/fall...and then wood for the fireplace next winter.

danny (tamara too!) were very generous and dropped off a supply of already seasoned and split wood that we can burn in our fireplace immediately to help supplement our heat and hopefully save some money spent on our gas bill!!

here's some of the wood danny brought for us...

and more wood from danny...

and even more wood from danny...

this is the wood they cut and stacked to be split and stacked again...

then, danny went home to get tamara and the girls and they returned to enjoy a fire and some dinner with us. the kids had a ball (well, paige and tony anyway...lilly slept almost the whole night). paige and tony enjoyed watching mary poppins on tony's dvd player snuggled in their pj's tucked in bed while the adults watched the dark knight downstairs.

lilly woke up then and tony got some snuggle time with her too...

a couple of night's later, tony and john put on their "workerman" carhardt coats and bundled up in their heavy duty snow gear to head out and split the wood...

bundled up and sooo stinkin' cute!!

tony grabbed his saw from his tool bench and was helping daddy cut the firewood...

hard at work...

thanks danny for bringing the firewood and helping john cut the other up and bring it home...thanks to my dad for the tip of the downed cherry tree in your backyard...thanks mikey lutz for the downed trees on your property...and thanks tamara, danny, paige and lilly for joining us for a quiet night in.