The Biggest Snow Storm of the Year

Monday afternoon it started to snow.  By Monday night we couldn't see the road just 50 feet from our house.  The snow just kept piling higher and higher and by Tuesday morning we were literally snowed in.  I had to put on my snowshoes just to get down the lane to the office.  School was cancelled and the city pretty much was shut down.  We ended up getting around 3.5 feet of snow.  Gus had so much fun running around and Roscoe was a little scared.  He followed right behind me and my snowshoes.  I was reminded of just how much I love snow days.  

Most cars were completely buried and some drifts were huge!  By Wednesday morning it was was raining and we were in flood warnings.  What a mess trying to get all those kiddos to school.  To top it all off the volcano is erupting randomly and volcanic ash is making travel to and from the island very difficult.  So in one week we've had a volcano eruption, a blizzard and flood conditions.  Wow! 

Spring Break 2009

What a trip. Stephen and I now know that we will never go on another cruise, but we are thankful for the experience. We just don't do very well being stuck on a boat in such a controlled environment. We did make some incredible memories though. We had the opportunity to go to Judson Baptist in San Bernardino and visit some great friends and talk about the Mission. We decided to road trip out to Joshua Tree National Park, that was a huge highlight! We did a 12 mile hike up to the Airport in the Sky on Catalina Island, it was beautiful, peaceful and wow were we tired at the end. We met a wonderful couple that gave us a ride back down, showed us there house and made us feel extremely blessed! Mexico was alittle cold, but we had a great taxi driver that was lots of fun. We rode horses on the beach and just flew! Stephen is quite the rider. I had to work to keep up with me. Oh, on the cruise we ate dinner in a nice dinning area. Anyway there were three other couples that we really enjoyed talking with.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

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Eagles and Ice

Saturday was extremely beautiful and felt so much like spring!  Stephen and I sat out on our deck and soaked in the sun trying to get all the vitamin D we possibly could.  I'm a bit under the weather so instead of a big day long outing we opted for a trip to Pillar Creek.  We spend a lot of time out there in the summer especially in late July when the Pink Salmon are coming in forcefully.  It's extremely easy for the kids to catch fish and it is amazing watching all those fish.  Anyway, it's much different in the winter and much easier to walk around.  Gus loved chasing all the eagles and helped keep our little guy, Roscoe who looks like a really tasty bunny, safe.  We did loose Gus for a while, but he's to much of a wimp to go to far.  Anyway, it was a perfect little afternoon.  The most precious memories in life come with the everyday moments.  

We thought it might be fun to see how many eagles everyone can find.  They were all over the place.  This picture was after Gus had scared over half of them out of the trees.  The sound their wings produce as they fly over is remarkable.  They are amazing!  

 

A couple random videos

This is from a while ago, but I really like it.  We love this big bean bag chair thing.  It actually turns into a queen size bed, so we're ready for all our visitors.  

So this was the first time we really started to understand Gus Gus' obsession with birds.  This goes great with our next post.  He really grabbed this bird from the air.  I watched it all happen.  Actually, we have a dead bird in our yard, just last week he killed it.  He doesn't eat them, he just likes to play with them.  Thinking I probably should get that dead bird out of the yard . . . How do you get Bird Flu?  (very blonde question I'm sure).