super nel...not to be confused with superdell

last saturday i went with matt and karen to help matt's mom and dad with some yard work. i know, me? believe me, when matt first asked me to do it, i told him "nope." but, being the kind, loving, generous, hard-working person that i am, it only took about 5 days for the guilt to start eating away at me. i don't know the first thing about yard work. well, that's a lie, i do know the first thing...the first thing is that it's HOT and SWEATY and WORK! i won't lie, i secretly prayed that i would fall down the stairs and sprain my ankle before saturday morning arrived, but i didn't. so, we headed up there bright and early (we didn't get there until around 10 am, but for ME on a SATURDAY morning, that is bright and early.)

luckily, matt's dad had some gloves for me. even more luckily, matt's mom had some mountain dew for me. so once i took a potty break (hey, a girl can't work with a full bladder) got my iPod hooked up to my portable iHome (nor can she work without the proper mood music...eye of the tiger usually works. thanks for that, crystal), i was ready to get to work.

here i am, hard at work SUPERvising matt and karen digging a trench for some giant beams to divide the garden from the grass:



and now i am SUPERvising them as they place the beam into the trench:



and here i am, SUPERvising matt pound in a stake while karen holds another piece of border wood in place:



good thing i was there to SUPERvise matt while he used the wood splitter:



HEY! where did he go? oh no!



they FINALLY let me play with the awesome toys:



and then i was on a roll, check out that stack of wood behind me. yes, i split that!:



look at me go! i am an animal! take that, yard work!



once the wood was all split, i SUPERvised matt and karen as they loaded some into the blazer to take home. hey, i can't do EVERYTHING!