Dreaming

Its cold and raining outside and I'm supposed to be doing homework. But just can't stop dreaming of being back here in paradise...sigh

Running Around

This past weekend, as a way of taking a break from the house and rewarding ourselves we went off and found a trail that we hadn't hiked before and just went running around. Well the boys did, I played photographer. Here are a couple of my favorite pictures.

Bentley loves to climb up rock walls. I don't know how many times he went up and down this one and every other random rock formation we came across. He is such a good dog for Bryce, they wear each other out like none other!

For Liv

Hey Livie, I thought you would like to come on a walk with me. Can you guess where we are?

Yep that box is still there. Just a box, but I think it is a new one, you can't see anything inside, and it got a fresh coat of paint. Still have no idea what the heck it is for!

And of course before we went into Como, we had to get in a zen state by walking that labyrinth new agey weird maze thing!

And now we're in. Hanging out with the monkeys

And there was the cutest little thing there. We could have stayed there a long time watching him.

I tried to get a picture of your favorite monkeys but it didn't turn out really well. Sorry!

The good news is that the polar bears got a whole new area! It is so much nicer than what they had before! But they still found certain paths to walk over and over again

And now we're at my favorites. The lions and tigers. They were all really sleepy, the tiger slept the whole time, but was really close to the glass so that was fun

 I don't know if this really is Jenga,  but I called him that since it was definitely the youngest. I like to think that they just don't age since we've been gone

 And now we are going to go for a picnic with the family in the field. Even Bentley was excited about it!

Wish you were here to join us, we miss you! Love you lots!

House Before and After

This past month our house project has been the house. We needed to reside the front of the house, and decided to paint the whole house too. Polly and Charlie came out to help, which we are so very thankful for!

Here's the house before: 

 With the wrap on:

 This was the view out of all the front side windows for several weeks until we got the painting done. Fun isn't it? I am so glad that that is done now, and we can get sunlight streaming in!

 Putting up the new siding

 Starting the painting. Such a long day(s)! We got all the base color done one day, and Bryce did all the trim around the top of the house the next weekend while I was back in Fergus

 And its all done! We still haven't decided what color it really is. When you're close up to it like in this photo it looks much more blue. But when you are driving up to the house it looks more greenish/gray. So who knows. I guess you'll just have to come and judge for yourself.

And just because I can't resist showing off my puppy, here's Bentley after he spent 6 hours running around in the mud with Tess (Charlie's German Shepherd)  Isn't he cute?!?