Barnaby Time

Madigan has always loved the dogs and cat. In the last couple of weeks, she has started "snuggling" into Barnaby's front legs and sitting against his chest. She also like to strattle him and jump up and down. He doesn't seem to mind any of it and is perfectly happy to follow her wherever she goes.

Winter snow suit

Kyle snapped these pistures of Madigan in early January- before we had a ton of snow down here. Madigan LOVES her snow suit....wants to wear it all day every day. She goes and gets it and wines until I put it on her. This past week when it was -25, I had to hide the snowsuit so she wouldn't get the idea that we were going out to play.

To my readers- Burrrrr.

To all my faithful readers-
sorry I've been slacking lately! We have been a little nuts. We left on vacation and 2 days after we returned, my Uncle got here with our new car- a 2002 VW Eurovan Weekender (pictures to come). He was here visiting for a week. Then 3 days after he left, Kyle left in his 1959 VW camper to head to Arizona for a VW show and a little vacation alone. My 1st few days with Madigan were going smoothly and I was finally getting some organizing done around the house. It started snowing the day Kyle left and it just kept coming. We have over a foot on the ground down here and Madigan and I had to head out almost every morning to shovel what we could. A few days after Kyle left I met with a lady you sells handmade items in a gallery in the Emerson Cultural Center. She wants to see my magnets and about 10 other things. So since then, I have been crafting about every free moment I've had (not many with Kyle gone). I'm going to have a Farmer's Market booth this year and am trying to decide what I'll sell at Tart (the gallery) and what i'll save for my booth. I have tons of great ideas and am so thrilled to finally have a reason to focus so much energy towards my "crafts". Stay tuned for more on that. In addition, it got very very very cold here this past week and we've been a little house bound. Kyle will be home in the next few days and then maybe (just maybe) we'll have a normal life again.

Video of Madigan feeding the Goats Pretzels

New Year in Pennsylvania

We rung in the new year in PA this year after visiting my family in WI.
Baby Tyler was already almost 7 months:Madigan got to feed the goats lots of pretzels and even "hep" Pappy to put them to bed at night.
Here's us next to our "rocks". Each of Helen and Randy's children and their families have a set of rocks along a path near the house. Our 4th rock is the "eggrock"...hoping it brings us luck as we begin to think about the next baby.....
Madigan's 1st CheeseSteak!


What a great photo!!:

Madigan couldn't keep her fingers out of the goldfish bowl:

Home for Christmas

We got to go home for Christmas this year! It was so nice to be part of Christmas with the whole family. It's just not the same out here all alone on Christmas morning. This year we flew on Christmas Day and everyone waited to eat and open gifts until we arrived. Here's a few pictures:

Buried, but not forgotten- more December photos

Being SillyNaya-If you don't eat that pig's ear, I will.
Farm Blocks for Christmas From Aunt Erika and Uncle Rob

Watching Dad shovel and the dogs run around...