Visitors--of the four legged kind

Living out in the Woods...has been fun. Our home is surrounded by trees, we have a few years overgrowth in our yard...which includes, pokey blackberry bushes sprawling everywhere, tall weeds, dandelions sprinkle the lawn with color, pinecones of all sizes sit on the ground and there are stumps of past trees that could tell a million stories about their life here if they could talk.

The first visitor we had was this little guy. Mike found him out by a junk pile left by Brian, the previous owner...mattresses, futon and frame, golf clubs, motorcycle parts, wheels, rugs, laptop bag, engine parts that I couldn't begin to tell you what they came off of...

We named him Sammy the Salamandar...someone told me that they bring luck...so, thanks for visiting...

We let him go in the more "cleaned" part of the yard.Since then, we've had pesky woodpeckers pecking holes in our house walls, It makes you jump out of bed and run off to scare them off. We've bought a little plastic owl that "hoo's" at pretty much anything that passes it's radar. Cars will set it off, visitors coming to the door sets it off and hopefully it scares away the woodpeckers. Decker added new words to his vocabulary when we got the owl--"Owl" and "Who Who"?!

There is a pond in a neighboring yard and you get the full effect of living in the country when you hear the frogs singing at night. We see these little guys and they're bright green. Decker likes to jump like a frog.

On Saturday, Mike spent half the day mowing the lawn, and trimming the edges. I think this woke up little creatures everywhere and stirred their habitat a bit, since it probably hasn't been mowed in 4 + years. We first saw a rat and disposed of him and then he found these cute little critters:

They were adorable and were very easy to catch, since they are just babies.We really kind of wanted to keep them for pets, they were so lovable, but ended up putting them back near their stump where we think they live.
Decker just loved the little guys and wanted to keep holding them like little stuffed animals. After reading about baby bunnies online, we found out that the little white stripe on their forehead was a sign that they were still nursed by their mother. We thought it best to let them go home....Hopefully we'll see them hopping around the yard as they grow. What a treat! :)

Finally Moved in March 18th, 2010

So I know it's been awhile since I've posted. So I'm going to try to do a lot of posting...some may be random and jumbled, but here goes the first.

In getting our house ready to move, we thought it would take 2 weeks. Well it ended up taking 6 weeks, after the HardWood Floor guy postponed our install...which ended up being better, because we got more of our painting completed.

We slept our first night in our new home on March 18th. We had company the next night, my brother Luke, his wife Lora and their son Dallin. So we had all the rooms ready, minus door knobs on the door and closet doors still missing.

They were a huge help in helping us get more of the closet doors primed and painted, cleaned our sliding glass doors and getting the light fixtures back in place.

We also cleaned up some of our yard of the debris left by Brian, the previous owner and some of our debris that we replaced in the house and had our first bonfire out in our own backyard.

The weather was perfect so we also spent some time at the park. Ferrel McWhittier Park.

This is a great park with a little barnyard of farm animals.--more pictures to come at a later date....

Here's some pics of Dallin--14 months and Decker-- 20 months.

If you noticed the band-aid on Decker's forehead...he fell on the hardwoods and "bumped" his head. It grew into a huge knot, and I think that the pressure was so built up that it started to bleed. He wore it for a couple of days and it healed very quickly.