Sunday, March 15, 2009

Winter and spring

Pictures! These cover January through March, I believe.

I seem to have adopted a new cat. Just before Christmas I went and picked up Trixie from a friend in another state who couldn't keep her. Trixie is going through her difficult "teenager" phase (she's a little under a year old and becoming sexually mature) and loves to terrorize my older cat, though I don't think she really means any harm. She's pretty amusing when she's not destroying things. :)

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I think I mentioned the pit bull puppy we had hanging around the farm for awhile - here are a few more pictures of her. She was all dog, and great with kids.

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Layla's birthday was in February. She's four! She loves ice cream and pretending to be animals (a kitty is her favorite).

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And Allie celebrated her eleventh birthday just this past week. She's still involved in 4H, lots of sports, and has recently started reading for pleasure. She has challenged me to read the Twilight books ("Shayna, if you don't read them, I've failed you as a niece!"), and I agreed if she'll continue reading the Harry Potter books. These are pictures from her little party we had with the family this weekend.

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My cousin Jamie and her family came through a couple of times as they move down south. Baby Payton is pretty cute! Andy and I took them up on the mountain in January; it was a beautiful, clear, cool evening.

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And here's just some miscellaneous naturey stuff. Our winter here was characterized by occasional ice with 70-degree periods in between, and spring seems to be keeping up that trend. We didn't have any snow this year.

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2 comments:

Sheila said...

Allie's 11! We're getting old.

Shayna said...

Sheila, I know! I can hardly believe it. I was thinking the same thing when I looked at your pictures of Zoe.