Tractor, Tractor, Tractor!

As many of you know, the city/state is planning to put a road right behind our house. We have love/hate feelings towards this road. We LOVE that they are putting in another road running east and west between I-15 and Saratoga Springs, it will reduce the amount of congested traffic on Main Street and will be so nice. But we really HATE that's it going in right in our backyard (or just behind). It's a long story behind us being right next to it, we didn't know when we built here that the plans were to put in a major road. But despite what happened, we are where we are and the road is going in where it is. We've decided that for now, we're going to be positive and happy about it. The fact that they are putting in a 14 foot sound wall between us and the road helps out quite a bit as well. That should shield us from the noise and protect the kids from any danger.

After years of planning, they have finally started and yesterday was so exciting for us! A big bulldozer came and was pushing around some dirt right behind our house. The kids and I were outside playing and were so excited that the weather was nice enough for us to watch. It was pretty amazing and I snapped a whole ton of pictures. Zach wanted me to put them on the blog for everyone to see, especially his cousin Ashton who loves tractors.

This is a picture from an upstairs window. Looks like they were smoothing out the area back there so that they can finally begin working on the road.



It was amazing how close the bulldozer got to our back gate. He put quite a big pile of dirt there and was driving on top of it. It almost made it look like he was driving on top of our back fence!



Hailey was so funny watching the tractor. I caught this picture of her - it was such a cute pose!



My kids are scardy-cats and I was sure they'd be terrified of the tractor and all the noise it was making and want to watch from inside the house, but they were fascinated and weren't scared at all. This is a picture of Hailey blowing bubbles for the tractor.



This was such an amazing sight from where I was sitting. Zach swinging with the tractor in the background, it was probably at least 15 feet from him, but from the view, it looked like it was right next to him.



They spent hours out there watching the tractor from different places. This was one of my favorites - they climbed up on the slide platform to really get a good look.



Zach got more creative and found this little spot to watch from. He was probably up there a good half an hour watching. I would have gotten tired and bored after about 5 minutes, but not Zach, he loved every minute.



I also got a few video clips since it was so amazing. Here's just one so you can see (and hear) how amazing it was to watch.



We loved the sunshine and being outside to see the tractor, it was a pretty fun day!