Well these photo's were taken a week ago and things aren't much greener yet. Spring is a bit on the slow side for Dutch. We have been happy to get to see the horses. The "avalanche" that Chris climbed into someone had made a snow cave inside to camp in and from what we heard they spent a few nights in it. Pretty crazy if you ask me. We had a good laugh at the horse on his back. He and the other one to the left were rolling around on the ground. I have never seen that before, I just wish I had my video camera with us. Well I will try to get some new ones of the kids up soon. Lizzy has her 11th birthday party on Friday(June1) which happens to be the last day of school also. We are hoping for nice weather so we can go to the beach and run around. Her birthday isn't until Tues but we thought it would be fun to have it the Friday before especially since its the last day of school too. And we don't have any softball (boohoo) schedule to work around.

5.10.07

Well as you can see spring is not quite here yet. There are new grasses starting to grow. The willow "trees" are starting to bud also. So were hoping spring is truly on the way.
I decided to go for a drive yesterday to see if I could get up close to some horses. Chris and I took a drive Monday and spotted some but they were pretty far off in the distance.
I had the 5yr old that I watch with me so it was pretty exciting to find the horses. Even got to scratch a few on the head. The picture of the one in the rear view mirror was kind of a suprise. They were all on the side of the car in the grass and the next thing you know is there's one right behind us. Can't wait for the scenery to turn green and see what kind of flower there are. So everyone keeps saying June is when spring arrives here so we shall see. Lizzy will turn 11 at the beginning of June and wants to got to the beach so we hope the weather holds just a bit. The winds can be a bit chilly still with all the snow on the hills.We just passed the nine month mark for being here and it has gone quite quickly. We can't believe the school year is almost over. All in all it's been a good school year here.