Thought I would take some pictures of the tulips and daffodils. We are suppose to get 4-6 inches of snow tonight. Crazy - it's 60 degrees today. They say the commute tomorrow to work will be pretty bad. We'll see if the weatherman is right! anyway - we have a touch of spring in our yard right now and it's nice to look out and see the flowers. I will have Kanien or Jon take some more pictures the next time they come over - they do a much better job at picture taking! More should be blooming by then out front.

Mom and Dad Dougal were able to come down and visit for a few days while Dann was home. It was fun having them here. Nanette and the boys came with them. This was the only picture that I took and it didn't turn out too well. This was just before they left. Nanette took pictures and Terry/Debbie took pictures also so maybe some pictures will show up on their blogs. Thanks for coming down to see us and visit with Dann it meant a lot to him. Alex and family was able to stop by and visit for a couple hours too on his way to Idaho and then on their way home they brought us 3 fruit trees that we planted Sunday afternoon when they got here. I feel bad for Dad that he has to come down and pick up the trailer! Alex had the back of his truck full and so they had to put the trees on the trailer. Thanks for doing all that you did to help get us the trees.

Here are the elephants that I left out of the other post! The pictures aren't too good but they were fun to watch that day. Dann also took the guys shooting and Jason was the best! Everyone says he was but Dann - Dann says he was good but not better than his dad! There was a couple days that was spent fishing too! The first day Dann, Nathan, David and Amy went fishing - Dann came home all excited - he caught a 21 inch fish later to find out it was a salmon of some type. We took pictures but he is going to post them on his blog. Nathan also caught a smaller fish. Then, on Sat. everyone went fishing but David and Rosalee. David had to work. Terrence also went with us. Amy caught a fish before we got there and then within 10 min. of being there Terrence caught a fish also and that was the last fish caught of the day. I wasn't going to go - hadn't really planned on it but was talked into going by Kanien! I'm glad that she talked me into going. It was a fun day even though it was really muddy! Marcella had fun playing in the mud. She really wanted to get in the water. Kanien took pictures so hopefully soon we see some pictures on her blog. Dann left this morning to go back to Afganistan. It was good to have him home. There were some moments of adjusting to having him back but for the most part it was great to have him back - the time went by way too fast and it was sad to have him leave early this morning.

Our day at the Zoo! While Dann was home we did a few things. One of them was taking Marcella to the Zoo. Rosalee and Jon were not able to come with because they had to work and
Jason had to go to school but the rest of the gang went with. Marcella was fun to be with at the zoo. She enjoys the animals and makes the sounds of most of them. The animals were more active today then I have seen in a long time. The bears were playing. I think they were all enjoying the nice warm weather too!



The Giraffe was looking at us! Marcella missed it! She doesn't look too happy in this picture but she was pretty happy for our walk through the zoo.

This was taken by the elephants and they were actively eating and fighting over the food. I meant to put a picture of the elephants on but it didn't show up on this post so I'll add those later. The elephants can't be seen because of the people standing in front of them! When Marcella saw them eating she put her mouth down on the top of the fence and pretended she was eating. She also enjoyed the ducks that were swimming in the pond that is in with the elephants.

More pictures from the zoo! We went out for lunch afterwards at the Pie pizza. We ordered a 23 inch pizza. It was huge! We went and picked Jon up from work so he could eat lunch with us. The pizza didn't settle well with Dann though so I'm not sure we will ever get him to eat pizza from there again but the rest of us loved it! Jason was able to enjoy leftovers later that night.

Marcella likes to play with the piggy bank. she takes the money out and puts it back in and when she looses interest you know it because she starts putting the money in her mouth and looking at me and laughing because she knows that I don't want her to put it in her mouth. she usually gets one more chance and she will put money in the bank again for a couple seconds then go to put the money in her mouth again so we put the bank up for the day!

While Kanien was gone for a week back to Pennsylvania we had Marcella stay with us some of that time. She loves to be read to and to look at books. During Kanien's absence the book Are you my mother was her favorite book. I don't know if it had anything to do with Kanien being gone or not. She still likes the book but not as much. I read it so much to her that when Rosalee came over I let her have a turn. She gets sad when we get to the page where the bird is all alone on the page and gives me a hug. When we would get to that page I would tell her "oh the bird can't find his mother, poor little thing!" In the other picture David is teasing her by tickling her face with some worry beads. Sometimes she likes to have her face tickled but other times she gets annoyed.