Perfect size to tow with our little car :)Anyways, here's the before:
And the after:
And while it seems sad to cut down perfectly not-dead trees, they were very close to the house. We have so much more light now! It was kind of like living in a forest before, and they lost TONS of needles in our gutters and all over our yard...I picked them up right before it snowed in the winter, and I took out FOUR wheelbarrows full of needles this spring! Cutting them down was also integral to our plan for our yard. You see how there is a large slope on the left side of the house? Most of it is coming out (it is really a pile of dirt between our house and the neighbors) and what can't come out will be held up by a retaining wall. This is for two reasons: 1) The hill is slowly eroding and falling down more each year, sending large amounts of water to puddle around our foundation and 2) we will gain a side yard about 15 feet wide that we might be able to use as a driveway. Our current driveway is coming out, we hate how it takes up the whole yard.
An excavation company is coming next week to level our whole yard out, so there will be even more changes to come soon.
And spring is here! My lilacs are blooming:
And there are even some tulips the previous owner managed not to kill:
And just because she's so cute, here's a picture of my dog Pepper with a new toy we bought her (which is a neon pink monkey that left neon pink fluff all over my living room): 
