Just Some Silly Pictures

 

Last week was gorgeous, so we spent many hours of local playgrounds. You know, where you can make cool pictures. Only I kept forgetting my camera.

 

Finally I did remember! I was so proud of myself, apart from the fact that I decided I could be even more productive by grocery shopping while they were playing since the grocery store was right there anyway. Which was cool, apart from the fact that they wanted to eat the food when I returned and then it was dark and so I only got pictures of kids running around in the almost dark instead of the awesome playground pictures I was going to get.

 

Oh well ^^

 

Geocaching!

Yesterday we spent a nice day geocaching. We started out by visiting a bunch of cute puppies.

 

And goats.

 

Followed by finding TWELVE geocaches in a variety of settings. No long hikes, which was nice because the weather forgot we were entering summer and reverted back to early spring/late winter. It even rained!

 

It was great to be outdoors though. Looking forward to summer!

 

Two Wheeler!

 

Sylvia learned to read a two wheeler and has been doing nothing else since then :D

 

Backyard Bobcat

First we always thought it was a normal house cat. Until one day I noticed that something was 'off' and that the tail looked weird and that it was a very skittish cat. Didn't take long to google and find out we had a juvenile bobcat visiting our neighborhood!

 

Very cool, very impressive, but wouldn't it be wonderful to have photographic evidence of it? Well, it would be, but this feline was not very impressed with the idea of having his soul captured in our black box, so we spend many months seeing the bobcat when we didn't have the camera, only to have him disappear if we did go get it.

 

Dawn finally was successful in capturing him/her using our telelens.

So cool!

First Crocuses!

 

Snow is gone! Spring is here! Life is good!

 

Sylvia found the very first crocuses.

 

I will write more soon, I promise, but not today :p

 

Dreaming of a White March

Kids were thrilled, yesterday we had another snow day!

We celebrated by first looking at a new house, but they lost a bedroom somewhere along the way. It was listed as four bedrooms, but the house only turned out to have three, and the 'extra room' they claimed was quite non-existant too. I guess that is not going to be our new house.

In the afternoon we finally got to sled on the hill which had mostly been snowless all winter and it was cold, windy, snowy and perfect.

Tonight we are getting more snow! I guess they saved it all till March.

Winter!

As in we FINALLY got some snow! First they said Friday 3am, but nothing was there when I woke up. Then they said late morning, but apart from some flurries, still nothing was there at 3pm. We had fun running all kinds of errands and do extensive shopping at our local thrift stores while 'outrunning the snow storm' though.

Late afternoon it finally started snowing and I was happy to see my plow guy plowing the driveway in the middle of the night. It means that there finally was 'real' snow ^^

Luckily we have flowers inside the house to provide some color to counteract the ubiquitous whiteness outside.

Even although I liked not having snow, it also felt slightly weird and uncomfortable, so this time I was actually HAPPY with a snow storm, fancy that!

More Ice Fun

After yesterday's skating fun, we couldn't resist going again today.

Especially since the temperature actually was above freezing this time!

I still love the ice castle. Glad we had ice even if we didn't have snow.

Ominous looking sky. I think we'll get a few flurries overnight.

At the end we had hot chocolate as a perfect end to the ice fun. Followed by boring grocery shopping, which wasn't as exciting but was very needed ^^

Geocaching and House

With all the house selling stress going on, somehow I had not been out geocaching. It takes an amazing amount of energy to keep a house 'perfect' and showing ready at all times. Not to mention the stress of 'Will it sell? Will it not sell? When will it sell? Can't it just sell already???', you know productive questions like that.

 

But it is OVER! It did sell! Closing isn't till late April, but at least we don't have to perfect at all times anymore. And it gives me time to find a place to live, but this time I am the buyer instead of the seller, and that seems better in today's market.

 

To celebrate, we went out geocaching and actually found a cache and it was so nice to be out in the sun (apart from the freezing cold that is :p)

 

And yes, this is a giant cupcake made out of snow...