Saturday, January 3, 2009

Green again...










Brooklyn and Riley
enjoying the loot!!!



Well, Christmas has been and gone and we all had a good one. It was just our little family this year (plus a couple of extra dogs) and it was kind of nice to relax and do things at our own pace.
The kids waited until 8am to wake us up (YES!!!) and then we fed dogs, and proceded to the front room to open presents and to see what Santa brought.
The kids were thrilled with everything they got. Brooklyn got many barbies, a barbie house, and rollerblades, and Riley got a several car race tracks, some art supplies, and rollerblades.
I got a new camera from Kelly and took all of our Christmas pictures with it, and then proceded to erase them ALL! I guess you really should read the manual on those things! :0 So I had to take several pictures of the kids playing with their toys after it was all over...
Meg and Steffi on Christmas morning.... life's rough for them!
We had all that snow and then had a few warm days and now we're back to green (trees and yard)!


I feed the birds all winter and most of them live in the pines that line the side of our house. We get finches, quail, and these really tiny ones during the winter. The finches and other birds will pick the berries from our Hawthorne tree, but the quail like to eat off of the ground, so we buy them some yummy quail food for the winter and toss that down underneath the tree.
I think the weather has been so fickle this year that the birds don't know what to do... we saw a HUGE flock of robins out the other day trying to find what they could in the grass.
School will be starting back for the kids Monday, and we're ALL looking forward to that!!!
It's been a fun, but long two weeks on the break, but the kids are missing their friends, and I am missing how worn out they are after a day at school. :D











2 comments:

  1. I Can't believe its green there. AUGH! I am jealous. Rigby warmed up for a few days,, windy like crazy but still enough snow that I can't find the ground.
    Cute pictures of some happy kids and dogs. Careful with that new camera,, its addictive.

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