Oh! Adorable!

My Awesome Running Girl Lisa sent me an email earlier today with this cuteness in it... check it out! There's no way you can have a grouchy day after looking at these babies!

http://www.zooborns.com/

Ok, ok...

Wow, I'm even more behind than I thought! I know I said I would post finished pool pics last weekend, but the W household game of musical computers sure did cripple that thought. So, Court finally got his new computer right before we left for NH (talk about bum timing for him - he's been beyond excited!). Go check it out at his blog. How does this apply to Jamie??? Well, Jamie inherits Court's "old" laptop and her desktop goes to be the music room computer... And so, in theory I was supposed to clear my life off of it before the swap happened, but life happened. As usual. (I feel like this should be a "Not Me Monday" post! See Stacie for that!)

Ok, so Court, in all of his engineering genius self, decides to 'clean out' the desktop... LITERALLY. This is one of those things that smarty pants people like him do... Very necessary, I hear. Good thing he knows this, otherwise I'd have condemned it to a life of dust. I walk in to the music room (the room formerly known as the dining room) and see my (ok, I still think of it as mine) computer's case in one corner, and the tower / guts in another. No, he really meant to blow it out. So, all of my files that I didn't quite get cleared off and transferred are now being held hostage by a can of air that doesn't yet live in the W household. Huh. Go figure.

Now the desktop is clean and I'm functioning on the laptop, but I gave up and took new pictures! Check out our new paradise-in-progress!!!

*Ahh, the spa*

*From on top of the spa out... notice one smallish dog at top...*
(because of course, what's a W family post with no Gizmo?!)

So the newest projects back there involve things like lighting and grass. I'm wanting to play with flowers - wow, scary thought, right?! I spent part of Sunday clearing out the bed right behind the house, so it's almost ready for them! Any tips or advice??? Send them my way! :-)

Oh - side note... Keeping Mum was a wickedly funny movie! I just finished it... very devious Brit comedy - sort of twisty and dark but ironically amusing. Ahhhh, so good! And it's got Dame Maggie Smith - what's not to lovelovelove about her?!

Catching up!

You know when you get back from a trip and you think "oh, I've got to call this person, and take that there, and oops, can't forget to do thisthatandtheother!", and you spend the whole week catching up on everything that happened in the week you were gone? That was this week! Craziness abounds!

Recap... Skiing (snowboarding for the larger half of the family) and visiting Kathy and Mark was much fun - tons of snow! I waded out into Kathy's front yard at one point and it was over my knees! Yikes! Check out the view from her front window when the herd descends...

The feed the deer and wild turkeys, so the front yard is like a semi-controlled zoo early in the morning and close to sunset! We spent the week playing in the snow and hanging out with the family. Gizmo got to stay with Grandad and Bubbles - and loved that! I heard they spoiled her pretty good!

The slopes were on of the best parts of the trip for me... Court had fun too, but re-learning to snowboard on icy snow isn't so easy, apparently. But I do have to say, I love this picture of him... something about it...

Yeah, great trip! And we came home to a finished (for real this time) pool! I'm beyond excited about that! I'll post pool pics this weekend, but here's one from our balcony...



Happy almost Friday! :-)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Brrrr!!!

Hi from Hanover - it's freezing up here!!! :-)

Snowy pictures to come - there's more than plenty up here... send warm vibes!