Sunday, May 10, 2009

Out of Hibernation!

This is what it looked like on April 15th.

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As soon as it melted and the temps were not below 30...

these pretty little things popped out of the ground and...

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And we all "popped" out of the house.

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Here are some of the things we have been doing lately:

Hunting Varmints                           Flying Kites

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Burning boxes

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Caring for and loving on our baby goats

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Wading in the creek at Eagles Landing

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Jumping on the tramp

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Losing teeth!

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Riding horses

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Taking Horse lessons

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Here is some serious horse riding by Tess

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And some serious grooming

~ now if someone would just groom my daughter... ~

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Nice to be out from under all of the snow :)

6 comments:

Natalie said...

As I type, Eamonn is mowing the lawn for the first time this year. Green--FINALLY! That creek water must be COLD!

Anonymous said...

Nice smile Weston!

Andrea Cherie said...

I love how active your family is! Abbi has a gorgeous (handsome?) horse!

Cinnamon said...

Oh what fun ya'll have been having. I have a dtr that would love to play beauty shoppe and "groom" sweet little Tessa :-)
We'll have to squeeze that into our visit :-)

~Cinnamon

 The Morris Family said...

I am so happy for you all to have warmer weather. We have had rain on and off for about three weeks, I am ready for blue skies!! I love all the pictures and all the fun things you can do together! It looks like bubbles in the creek, is it? What a wonderful family you are and how in the pictures everyone enjoys each other.
Cindy

Devin and Tiffany said...

I love that Tess is combing the horses hair!