SNIP - our latest project

Well....we haven't just been sitting around on our butts for the past six months. Well....maybe there was some of that. But really, we've been hard at work on our most recent project.....YES....GROWING OUR VERY OWN ALIEN BABY!!!! Queue scary music.....

AAAAHHHHH!!! As if we thought becoming parents wasn't scary enough, we end up with SKELETOR-IN-UTERO!! Luckily, baby SNIP (Seager-Neel In Progress, thanks to Marin) seems to have at least some human features as you can see by the much more reassuring picture below.

Judging by our recent blogging history, be on the lookout for our next post sometime in April, after SNIP decides to venture out into the real world. Ah, who knows....maybe we'll get inspired and do an update or two before then! :)

THANKSGIVING!!

We got to host our second Thanksgiving this weekend - the first one in our new house. I'm so thankful for so many things. The first one is for having such a helpful husband!! Paul typed out a cooking schedule and copied all the recipes and started brining the Turkey on Monday. Then he made stuffing and pumpkin pie and gravy and vacuumed the house on Tuesday and Wednesday. The only thing we had to do on Thursday was mash some potatoes and roast some veggies! And cook everything according to the schedule! What fun!!

We had a smaller crowd than expected - Jacqueline, Becca & Andrew flew down to sunny San Diego, and Kendal & Edith Emily are still in LA - and even though we miss them all dearly, we've been having quite a good time playing our new games (Bananagrams, Dominion & Agricola), eating lots of tasty leftovers, cuddling with the kitties, doing sudoku, crosswords, &"homework", taking walks (okay, A walk), watching movies & decorating for Christmas!

As you can see, Robby's girlfriend, Elizabeth is quite good with the kitties! Pepper especially loves to be carried around inside Elizabeth's zip-up fleece. I don't have a picture, but it's kind of similar to Mojo's picture with Dad at dinner. Pretty darn cute!

Hooray for relaxing family holiday weekends!!!!!!!

More Visitors!

Kendal & Edie are visiting from L.A. for a few weeks. They brought Grandma up for a weekend work party at the farm. We had fun purusing the farmer's market, walking to Woods at Boulevard, cooking tasty meals, playing cards, playing peek-a-boo with Edie, and sitting around while Grandma pulled weeds and did dishes. :) Don't worry. Grandma got to do some of the fun stuff too....but boy oh boy can that woman put in some serious weeding time!!!

Visitors

Whoah. I think we might have been abducted by aliens. The last thing I remember was taking this photo......and all of a sudden it's OCTOBER!! :)

Weekend Fun

Our relations from down south came up to visit us this weekend. We of course did the Ferndale farmer's market once again, and saw the great Ferndale Pioneer Days Parade (well...half of it anyway). Then we ventured out to the coolest park structure ever in Lynden, stopping to taste some delicious fruit (and hazelnut) wines at Samson Estates Winery. Back at the ranch, we said hello to our horse neighbors and our people neighbors - we got to meet their chickens and their cows AND take home some TASTY eggs. We played a few games, hula-ed some hoops, read some stories, and captured each-other's flags and then it was time to send the urbanites back home to the big city. UPDATE: We also had LOADS of fun playing with our rent-a-dog, Brindzi, over the weekend. In fact, we had SO MUCH FUN, that we didn't even think of taking any pictures of all the FUN we were having. All we have is this one of Brindzi and Patches looking longingly outside. Next weekend, we'll be sure to get some better pics of the pup!