Canada

Well, we’re here sure enough, eh?  We all arrived safe and sound in Alberta, even had some good experiences at the border.  As in the agent we spoke to actually smiled this time!  Wow!!  Everyone got more or less settled in on Wednesday evening, and then the storms rolled in.  There are some terrific thunder, …

Baby Steps

Well it’s happened!  On Sunday afternoon Qade took his first genuine official first steps!!  He’s pretty thrilled with this new talent!  I was rather proud of him myself.  He took several “practice” steps to lunge from one piece of furniture to another, but then once he decided he could do it, he started taking steps …

Yay for Fireworks!!

Happy fourth of July!!  We just found out today from our resident volunteer fire dude that there will be fireworks tomorrow night in Alpine!!!  Woo-hoo!  I was thinking that we’d have to do without them again this year, but happy day, I was wrong!  We’ve got a great weekend planned even though it’s going to …

Ick!

That’s exactly what I thought last night when I got home.  There on the counter and in the sink were “calling cards” of a nature that I didn’t want to see.  Yep, our home has been invaded by mice!!!  Nasty!  While our cat is safely living the high life with Oma in Albuquerque, the mice …