Craziness. . .

The months of April and May are just that, craziness!  In April I had a solo dance competition and won 1st attendant.  In May I had two solo and team competitions.  I won a Queen and a 3rd attendant for solos and there are too many awards that the studio I dance with won to even name.  I think there was a total of around 35.  This week is the end of the craziness, because it is the official end-of-the year-dance-revue. 

Thor. . .

Well since I complained about the rain last night and it was really sunny today. . . I went and took pictures of Thor this morning.


 Isn't he just too handsome?!?!  While I was trying to take these pictures he ate my skirt and then tried to eat the camera lens cap.  He has turned out to be quite the little love bug!

He also tried to escape. . . when I went out to take the pictures he came running up to the gate and tried to open it.  A few weeks ago he almost managed to open the latch on the gate. . . now there is a second latch on it.

If it weren't for the rain. . .

There would be a picture of my "baby" goat with this post. . . but seeing as it IS raining there won't be one.  The rabbit cages would also be clean and their shed swept. . . but it isn't.  So I guess that I should just go and do math, dream about my plans for flower gardens, or do something else useful. . . my corgi says that I should pet him seeing as he is in charge, I don't think that he is in charge.  Maybe he should clean my room for me instead of me petting him. . . that probably won't happen. Hugh says he will take pity on the poor corgi and is now petting him. . .

The weather outside is....

Well... definitely not frightful!  I went out to feed the bum-lambs at noon today and it was forty degrees!  I really think that we skipped February and went straight to June.  Here's hoping that the weather stays warm....

Where did January go?

I know that it came, and I know that we did various things this month, but where did it go?!?!?!?  I have decided that since it isn't really winter but it really isn't spring that it really wasn't January...Cody (my older brother) dubbed this new season "Sprinter".  Well bum lamb season has definitely started and we now have instead of just two bummers, we now have three more.  School is flowing right along and I can't believe how far I am in some of my subjects...and how neglected others are (history anyone?). This is a picture of Hugh (6) with the latest Lego creation...

Geese in January?!?

Here's pictures of two very odd occurrences...

Caleb in a picture... notice how he avoids eye-contact...

Snow pictures

On the mini sledding hill

Shoveling the trampoline

 I was looking through my camera today and found some very interesting pictures of snow and my little brothers playing in the snow, here's a couple of my favorites!
      These past few weeks we have had a few major snowstorms to make up for the lack of snow prior to Christmas. The pictures of Hugh on the mini sledding hill, Dad starting the Barbecue, the Dryer vent, the Russian Olive trees, and the shoveling of the trampoline are all from last year. The only picture from this year is of Liam (10) and Hugh (6) breaking the "fort" with butter knives.

Starting the barbecue

The dryer vent!

Breaking the fort (with butter knives)

Another tree   

Russian Olive threes

And now here's a poem that is one of my favorites:

 

This Is the Key


This is the key of the kingdom:
In that kingdom there is a city.
In that city there is a town.
In that town there is a street.
In that street there is a lane.
In that lane there is a yard.
In that yard there is a house.
In that house there is a room.
In that room there is a bed.
On that bed there is a basket.
In that basket there are some flowers.
Flowers in a basket.
Basket on the bed.
Bed in the room.
Room in the house.
House in the yard.
Yard in the lane.
Lane in the street.
Street in the town.
Town in the city.
City in the kingdom.
Of the kingdom this is the key.

Anonymous

From "A Family of Poems"
Sort of a longer poem but it is entirely fun and games when reading it out-loud as fast as you can to a very hyper six-year old.

Fishes!

Well...Hugh and I discovered the fish gadget on blogger and added two sets of fish to my blog.  Hugh thinks that it is fun to feed the fish, and to randomly change  the colors of the fish.  He also had fun finding various pictures on the blog.  We also found out that you can't see the fish on Mom's ITouch, only on a computer.  That's because you need a mouse to make the fish move and to feed them.  Hope everyone has a great day.