Eagle days

The kids and I enjoyed a presentation at the nature center about eagles today. Serena took these great pictures of the bald eagle.
Her name is phoenix and today she was quite vocal, you see the picture of her with her beak
open she is calling loudly.






















Before the presentatio0n the kids got to hang out and play with the nature exhibits.
Xavier is holding a baby possum











Iris is loving a red fox.













Serena is holding a cardinal, one of several birds that she held. She is still so very interested in animals and how to care for them, she wants to be a zoologist who lives on a farm when she grows up :)

faces I love

random pictures of my littlest ones

Red belt

Serena has moved up to Ninja red.
next is black and then its on to the big kids class.

Owl prowl

Our local nature center had an owl prowl last weekend. we bundled up and went into the woods to see if we could find an owl, no luck but thats ok because the zoo brought owls for us to look at :)
We got to see a screech owl, a bard owl and a great horned owl, pictured.
Serena impressed the presenter with her question, "do owls have sticky feet?"
I didnt know what she was talking about
but the presenter did, " lots of raptors have tiny little nubs on the bottom of there talons that helps them to grip prey she explained, but owls do not have this feature probably because their prey is rarely wet, or wiggly after the initial grab."
We had a good time.

our x baby is one !!!

The girls assisted making this cake and they picked the flavor
, carrot :) yumo












He cant wait to dig in.













he agrees, YUMO













I think he looks so angelic in this picture, I barely see the frosting mess :)












Serena helps Xavier open his presents













Kyle and Jordon help Xavier get into his presents.

cookies and hot chocolate

Christmas Eve we made sugar cookies to leave for santa. Kyle came over and helped.












This is the face of a girl who has been eating red and green sprinkles right from the jar :)












Serena didn't feel well all day, but we were glad she joined us for some decorating and hot chocolate.











Kyle helping Serena with her cookies.













Ricky's friend Tara came over too.













She helped Iris make cookies.













Iris decorating a cookie













what we left for santa :)

christmas cookies 1

Serena was sick this christmas eve :(
but that meant that my helper for making cookies is Iris:)















She and I had alot of fun, I had to keep my eye on her though because she kept wanting to take bites :) It reminded me of making a birthday cake for ///////////gabe when Serena was two .She was helping me frost it but she was taking her butter knife and licking it clean almost faster then I could get the cake frosted :) must be a two year old thing :)