BiRdS & LaUnDrY

The other morning, we walked down to the lake at the end of our street to see this duck. It is called a Wood duck. (the green headed duck is a Mallard). Dan would love to have both of these ducks stuffed, hanging in our office. But until then, we'll just go down to the pond and look at them! They are both beautiful birds, but the Wood duck has very unique markings. Almost looks painted on. God, you are awesome!!
We brought some bread to feed the ducks. They were all very hungry!!

Dan also fed the pigeons!! It was soooooo funny to see them fly all over him! He loves things like this!

If you can believe it, I even did it! I had a bird standing on my hand and arm! Dan makes me brave!! We took a picture, but it must have got deleted. No worries though, I was making the worst face! ha ha

Laundry...wonderful laundry...I usually stay pretty caught up on ours, but lately it's been getting out of hand. However, I think this new rod we put up will help ours to keep getting done...

My laundry went from drying like this ------>

----------->to this!!!! We hung a round curtain rod in the laundry room to dry clothes! We were sooooooo tired of clothes hanging all over the doors all week! This is such a life saver! It makes doing laundry a little nicer!! ♥

Maybe a round shower curtain rod will help your laundry needs too??? ☺ Let me know if it does!

LoNg LiFe

Well, it finally happened. Yes, I turned 40. It is one of those ages you dread, but in reality,turning 40 was a gift! I'm thankful for Long Life the Lord has given me!!

To celebrate, we went to dinner with some of our friends. Dan said I needed to order from this page. Ha Ha! You're so funny, hunny!! NOT!

Here's our men...

and here are us women! (and kids!)

My sweet friend Cary invited us over to her house for cake after a yummy mexican food dinner at Abuelo's.

I got the full treatment, ♪♫Happy Birthday to You♫♪ and blowing out the candle!

Here's my sweet friend Cary, cutting the yummy cake!! Thank you Cary!!!

The kids had a BLAST playing NERF wars throughout their big house!

I've discovered 40 isn't an age to dread; its an age to welcome! Long life and many lessons learned these past 40 years. The future is looking very bright! God is sooooo good. ♥

2010 Christmas blessings...

O Christmas Tree...
"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord..."

Baby's First Christmas... Grandmommies Tree...

Favorite Gifts...

Treasured Stockings...

Beautiful smiles and surprises to open!

We are thankful for a blessed Christmas holiday...of course, just missing a trip to AZ to see Grammy and Uncle Mike...

Happy New Year 2011!

It has been a long time since I've posted anything. I was happy to find out that my biggest fan of the blog was my hubby! He missed my posts!! He thinks the blog is a nice way to keep up with the family adventures. So this one's for you Dan!! ♥

I wanted to take a family picture for a Christmas card, and I wanted something in the background. So one Sunday after church, we headed to Carlsbad Caverns to try to get something good...Thankfully, we had the cave pretty much to ourselves, which is nice when you are setting up a tripod every once in a while... ha!

How about this spot? Or this spot?

We were lucky enough to get a nice one at the entrance of the cave! I spruced it up a bit on Picnik.com! However, when I transferred it to an actual picture, it lost some of it's color. It wasn't as pretty on the actual Christmas card. I was disappointed, but oh-well, no use losing sleep over that....

We found these funny aliens close to the cave and had to get a few shots! The middle one is my favorite alien! ♥ ha

Since we all enjoyed Carlsbad Caverns cave sooooo much, the boys decided to take another trip to Slaughter Canyon Cave. It is a separate cave with a short hike up to it. It is totally dark, so it is true cave exploring. Dan and I went to this cave years ago and I truly loved the adventure of it. Now it was time to take the boys! This is on the short hike up to the cave...

There are beautiful formations in this cave and some scary ones too!!! This one is especially scary! Eeks!! Isn't that amazing that it's a natural formation? God, you are awesome!!

This Cave Monster was used in the movie "King Solomons Mine". Cool!!!

Zach is lovin' this cave! (below)

Since there is no light in this cave you have to use flashlights or head lamps!

This is heading out of the cave. They have it barred up like a jail to keep people out! I knew the boys would love that part of it too!!! ha!

If you haven't been to Carlsbad Caverns, you need to go! There is soooo much exploring for every age! And don't just stop at the main cave! There are other tours you can take for more adventures! Let us know when you are going and we'll meet you there!!!!!!