Take that Frosty

This is for all of you that might be sick of the snow. (I'm not not yet, but is hasn't really snowed here)

Fun in the Snow

Not sure what Frosty did to Ruby, but it wont happen again.

PS. sorry about the rough video, I didn't have time to edit it.

The stress of life

This is just a bit of fun to past the time.

Did some-one say Water?

Ahh just the right tempurrrature.

Snow Day!

See Ya!

I thumb my nose at fate!

OK, so its not my thumb but it will have to do for now.

I love take out.

Cats v.s. Dogs

Sometimes you have to make sacrifices around family.



But I really wish they would start making a "dog tree".


Because that looks like a lot of fun up there.

Love, Ruby

Having Fun on a Sunny Winter Day

It's a 50+ degree winter day, but we'll take what we can get.








Have a happy New Year everybody.

Love, Ruby

Happy Holidaze

Please forgive the pun, these last few days have past in a blur. Here are some of the things that have been going on at our family gatherings.


Some family tensions ran high.


Until everyone took a deep breath and decided to relax.


Then it was time to open presents.



This looks delicious!




It is delicious.

Happy Holidays to All. Hope it is not whole year before we all get together again.

Love Ruby

recently

I was able to be apart of some really fun firsts. Like Harper's first "Spring Break" to Mexico (whooo hoooo).

And the first two headed Giraffe. Don't believe me? Look closely at the picture below.


For more of Harper's "Spring Break" You can look on her blog.

Luck

Now you have to understand that I am not trying to count my chickens before they hatch. I would never assume that the universe is done teaching me a lesson. But why the universe feels like it has to beat a dead horse is still a mystery to me.

I have had a fairly descent run of good luck lately. (knock on wood) I just hope I can make it last.




I was able to find my sneakers in our storage unit. Our storage unit looks like the back of a moving truck. Everything is piled as high as it will go, and stacked 20 feet deep.


Now I'm hoping to extend this luck into our other ventures. I am also hoping that our next house will be a little bigger than this one. Although the puppy is really cute.


Good luck to you all.

Last Week

This past week I was out in Colorado. I got to see my cousin and his family.


I was also traveling with my sister in-law.

We also has a little time to go to the Zoo. We saw lots of fun things. Like; Seahorses

And tigers, and bears (oh my) We saw Bear feet and Bear butts. We also saw balls come out of Elephant butts. (You'll have to ask Ellie about that)


We also had a little work to do. Here are a couple before and after photos. I don't want to depress you so I only added two rooms, the living room and the 3rd bedroom.

Before

After

Before (this was all we could see from the doorway)

After

This is a 20 cubic yard dumpster. A cubic yard is 3 feet high by 3 feet wide by 3 feet deep (just in case you were wondering).

We filled 3 of these.

Next time I go out to Colorado I hope I have a little more time to have some fun. I want to thank my family who live out there. My cousin and family and my mom's cousin. I don't know if we could have survived with out your wonderful care. You helped up out, you fed us, you kept us going. You all are some of the best people I know and I can't thank you enough.

pics

Just cleaned things up a bit. Can you see the fence peeking out in back?

What do these things have in Common?

These three things have been causing me some stress lately. If you didn't guess by the second photo, the brakes or brake lines failed on the Ford. If you haven't had to replace a brake line or two, you wouldn't know the price tag associated with the repair. However since brakes control 50% of your cars motion, we decided it was better to get it fixed. It did make for an interesting day of doing errands, when the brake lines failed and subsequently the brakes failed. There is nothing like it to get you heart pumping when in traffic.

Now I figure we can either laugh our way through this as in; what more can happen at this moment to make things absolutely perfect... (just a wee bit of sarcasm there)


Or we could just cry...


I think we'll choose to laugh about it (maybe in a few days). What else can we do but give up or give in and we're not even close to that (yet).
(Not that we're tempting fate [gentle glance upward] we have had enough bad things to last us quite a while, thanks.)

PS. The ABS housing for both front tires is also being replaced $$$