Happy Birthday Eleanor, Babies, and Chess

 

Sheer sweetness!
Being dragged around by a doting aunt and uncle on her litter. :D

Husband bunny

(though 2 litters of bunnies were born to our surprise, one set froze as we did not know they came expecting, 2nd litter we aren't sure of yet as they are well guarded by the mother, but Bilbo built nesting boxes immediately after we realized other babies might be enroute.)

FG1 over to play. Such a cutie!

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY, ELEANOR!!

Heavy wind storm, tore a couple solar panels right off the rack!

And there they are!

Gifts from a moms gift exchange (post Christmas). A cookie jar for grandma, "This grandma is fabulous" plaque, and hershey kisses with almonds. I was tickled! Such a sweet thoughtful gift!

Pippin brought me a bowl of hail
(no I did not eat it LOL!)

Hail and freezing rain stuck in the trampoline net
(it's rather shattered at this point)

For some reason or other Kili found my overside rubber bands and started playing them by holding them between his teeth so Aragorn helped him build his rubber band guitar.

We added some adjoining land to our place since the price was right (surprisingly). The man who was selling to us (same man who sold us our original land) passed away suddenly (may he rest in peace) so last fall's sale turned into this winter's sale. 

Popcorn balls was something that I made quite a few times as a child. Finally my kids made some. Yum!

Marigold has spent all year trying to think of pictures for the Prolife contest. This was her first.

New jackets and other paraphernalia. Rosie designed the emblem (x-ray) and Eleanor ordered. Both did a great job! 

Poppy did a graphic design and Marigold drew with colored pencils and marker. Not sent yet.

Remember man that you are dust and to dust you will return.

Lent us upon us. We got our supplies ready.

We are also following and mapping the stational churches of Rome.

Merry trying for his level 1 instructor

in, under, and on everything!

cousins bonding

Baby Mozart-ina

Merry, Pippin and Bilbo participated in a chess tournament

Pippin won 5 out of 5 matches and came in first place
Merry won 4 out of 5 matches and came in fifth place

Bilbo won 3 out of 5 matches

As a team of only 3 came in second place for team
(first place which had 8 people taking the top 5 places won by only 1.5 points

Awesome job boys!