Sarah, (with her fever still) watching "101 Dalmations" this morning. Sally heard all of the barking and had to come in and watch too!

My boy and I.

Sally got a little something for Valentine's Day too... here's "HEN reietta" the chicken (more like the LOUD chicken! )

Valentine's Day (and the night before!)

Eric and I have been married 12 years tomorrow!!! :)

Sarah with her gigantic hershey kiss she got for Valentine's Day. She doesn't take after her mother does she???!

Christian all a blur as he runs during a basketball game last night. Our raptors won 19 to 17.. whew.. what a game!!!


After the game we (Nancy/Mike and kids along with us) went to pick up Sarah and Shannon at their friend Cecily's house. Remember Cecily? A friend who suffered from E-coli poisoning in October... she's home now after being away for 3 months in the hopsital and a rehabilitation hospital in Boston. We're so happy to have her home! There she is seated on the right of Eric and that's her big bro Levy beside her. Lookin' good Ceci!!! Sarah and Shannon spent time with her while the boys had bball. It was the first time Sarah had seen her since she got sick. She was very excited to see her!!



Oh, and way to go Nancy and Eric.. run, run run!! (we had a little "wii fitness" party while there!)

Eric and Mike racing

Shannon and Sarah's turn... I'm regretting not trying out the games myself! Next time!

Christian and Sarah participated in an annual snow-shoe-athon today with Liam, Shannon and their Dad. Thanks Mike for taking the kids! :)

Here they are with the numbers from their jackets and the participation "metals". As you can see there was face painting too .

sick!

This is Sarah before the itching set in. She woke up like this Sat. morning (from head to toe..) and I rushed her into the doctor's office. We found out that Sarah is allergic to "bactrum" a medicine the Dr. put her on to try and get rid of a rash she had around her nose. They had tried an antibiotic cream first and it seemed to be working, then a different looking rash appeared a week or so later. It was reoccurring for over a month now. So this week we've been dealing with yet two more prescriptions to get rid of THIS rash. It's working, but then ( like a lot of kids in our school district) the flu set in.....

Christian shows Daddy his circuit he made in science class (after his basketball game last night, in case you were wondering why the shorts in below zero temps!!! :) )


Now demonstrating it for Sarah . Can you see the tiny bulb light up? It was hard to get a picture of it where it actually showed up.

This morning: Sarah's cat is really staying close by, to make sure Sarah is alright!

Lacey posing in her "I'm so pretty" way. Sarah looking a little better and eating some too.

Hungry Visitor

Sally has been barking and crying a lot lately and we've looked around and have seen nothing. Finally, I looked out by the garage and saw a deer rooting around in the snow under one of our apple trees eating the fallen fruit from last Autumn. The poor baby was hungry. Sally didn't know what to think of her though! Her hair stands right up on end.

She came back mid-day and again at night, but brought about 10 or her friends with her! It was too dark to take a picture.

Here's my favorite baby at the farm.. we've been helping out feeding the babies and poor Martha here had pneumonia and an injured leg. She was doing well for a couple of days, but this am she was going downhill yet again. Poor baby!

Sarah and her friend Logyn (and me too!) were sledding at the farm (again!)for a while over the weekend. Christian was at a friend's house for the night. Daddy came too and toted the girls up the hill, lazy bums did not want to walk!! :) We all had fun. After we went sledding we all went into the farm house to warm up and had some of Christine's home-made english muffins with jam and home-made butter, very yummy!!

It was a pretty sunny day, but soooo cold

I have more "people" pictures to add, but it quit on me (once again). I will try again real soon! Sally is scared of Kit, but Kit was curious of Sally!

We had to bring "Cinna-Bun" in the house due to the frigid temps last week. Poor Lacey-cat is wondering why the rabbit has to reside her cat-carrier. The rabbit is about the same size as the cat and she is not afraid of cats as you can see!