Aimlessly wandering alone through the foothills for a couple of hours before dusk

How far can YOU stick your arm into a snow bank?

The Pie

Fourth graders trying to run like snowshoe hares

Sam in the deep new snow

Simon making cookies for his mom's birthday

After the the snowstorm and the concert were over we ate frosties on the capital lawn at midnight

"Thirteen" (my favorite, for the sweet sentimental memories it brings to mind)

Sorry Secret Friend, I didn't find your Valentine on my front porch till the next day.

What I did on Valentine's Day

A nice Sunday Drive and a view from above of where we hiked the day before

Hiking in Colorado National Monument

Rest Stop in Southern Utah

Alicia and I saw Pioneer Woman but we didn't wait in line to meet her

What turned into a delicious upside down pear spice cake

Over a frozen creek in Big Cottonwood Canyon

I didn't need to go far to find squirrel or coyote tracks for today's field trip

Baxtar the dog got the bones from our BBQ ribs (which I cleverly disguised as a cat)

Totally X Rated...cover the children's eyes!

Midnight Snack: angel food cake and a bowl of melted frosting

Bobsled coming through!

Finally...I feel like I've been waiting forever for this flower

The unfolding amaryllis reminded me of a big velvet ball gown

Lunch above the meadow at Willow Heights

At my Birth-Second Tamale Party

A Salted Caramel Cake for my 1 billionth birth second party tomorrow

This one looked like a volcano erupted

I'm skipping Valentine's candy this year and going right to the Easter jackpot

Making some tangelo cake

Sunday apple treats

Another sunset, same pasture

Fiesta para la graduación

I love the Peach desserts but the Porcupines make me sick

I should have a blooming amaryllis any day now

And this is why we can't run a bakery out of my house...(but who wants carrot cake anyways?)

Our steaming hot homemade tamales!!!!

Snowshoe tracks over Willow Heights Lake

I love finger monsters

This is how I keep track of the little guys

Looking out to Alcatraz

Tangelos in the backyard (sadly weren't quite ready)

Starting 2011 off right with some amazing cheese

Celebrating out on the town with Steyce-Face

Our drive home through The Redwoods

Off Cape Blanco Oregon, the most western place in the continental US

First view point stop from the day I got ridiculously wet

Virtual Caching in old Northern California ghost towns

These Santa notes still crack me up

Some things about Christmas at home never change

Christmas Eve in Santa Cruz