Snowy Owl

I have a super-sweet hubby! During the night last night he was up investigating a loud noise and before heading back to bed he looked outside. He got to see a new visitor to our deck: a big, beautiful snowy owl! We regularly get all kinds of birds, squirrels and even a rabbit (since the snow pile is all the way up the tree to our squirrel feeder. I even saw a hawk sitting out on the deck one day, but I wasn't fast enough to get a picture.

But Jon was able to watch the owl for a long time last night and get several pictures.... that's where the "super-sweet hubby" part comes in! He knew how much I would have wanted to get a picture of that owl sitting out there so he found the camera and took a bunch of pictures for me and showed them to me as soon as he got up this morning. See, super-sweet! :)

Anyway... here is our new friend, the snowy owl!

Dinosaur Puppies

This is Emmy writing this blog tonight.

Wrigley: She is a puposaurus. This puposaurus is cute. She likes to eat dead fish. Shoeshine: She is a cuddleasaurus. She likes to jump around.
Peaches: She's a peachadactyl. She's just a baby and she's cute. Mocha: She is a niceasaurus. She likes to sing, "Oh I Just Can't Wait To Be King!".

Cocoa: She is a heartasaurus. She likes to look at the stars at night.

Lexi: She is a snowasaurus. She likes playing in the snow. She likes eating leaves.

Dug: He is a woofasaurus. He likes doing the dinosaur dance.

Buster: She is a mysteryasaurus. She likes eating meat. She likes to play in the mud.

Bolt: He is a Boltrex. The Boltrex is kind of like a T-Rex but he is cute.

Bria's Piano Recital - February 2010

Here are some videos from Bria's piano recital this morning.

Bria Guest Post - Demon Dog, Her Opposite, and Snowy Dog

This is Bria I'm doing the blog today.

Have you ever had the felling your dog is evil, I have....

...but then they get all cutesy and nice...

...and then you get her all cute and covered with snow...

...but don't be decieved, your dog is evil.

Our Morning

Well, with a kind of rough day around here yesterday I thought it might be good to have an outing this morning. So after stopping at the store for a few groceries I asked the kids if they wanted to go for a drive to look at all the beautiful trees. We headed just to the south end of town so they could see how pretty everything looked covered in frost and the sun was just peeking out too. They really enjoyed it! They wanted me to take pictures of every tree we saw... so here are a couple at least because they wanted to see them later! I'm going to try to print out a couple of them to use as something for our notebooks next week too.

Now if only the outing had led to our normal quiet rest time...... seems like the two big kids had different ideas today - we'll see if they ever settle down! (naptime isn't always perfect here either!)

High Snow + Fence = Escape Route

This weekend we spent another 3 hours each getting more snow/ice off our roof, and then off our deck, driveway and sidewalks. It's amazing how much snow our roof held! And the one area of our yard where some of the snow has been dumped has finally reached within inches of the top of our fence/gate. So I also got to dig out that area before the dog realizes she can just walk right over the top of the fence in that part of the yard!

Moving around all this snow also means that the sledding hill created off the top of our deck is now off limits for the kids - the snow pile is so high that when the climb up it, they could now fall over onto the middle section of our deck and I'd hate to see anyone get hurt. So, in the meantime, they are enjoying jumping off the other "hill" created in our yard, playing in the snow fort and doing all kinds of other things around the yard.

Here are some pictures of the crazy snow piles (and Bailey wondering what I'm doing!)

This is a rabbit who is enjoying the tall snow hill - he can eat the squirrel's corn now too!

The sledding hill

Why we can't use the sledding hill right now!

The snow piled up near the top of the fence before I dug it out.