A Lazy Life...

Millie and I visit the North Bend Library every Tuesday and Thursday. It's especially a great place to come on those cold, rainy days. We both love Tuesday story time and my Thursday sing-a-long music group that I started for babies and toddlers. Millie is my assistant and we sing, clap, and just have fun being silly.

However, we've had gorgeous weather for the past few weeks, sunny and a pleasant 65 degrees by afternoon. (Alas, we are back to rain as I right this e-mail...possibly for the next week or more!) But on those amazing "spring" days we got out the bicycle and cart and just pedaled along the paths and to the parks with Millie. Very soon we'll have a 2nd bicycle so the whole family can ride together. Millie and Papa are off to try the path along the golf course.

After those fun days outside,we head inside for some snuggles with Deli. Good thing he is such a tolerant cat, he puts up with lots of squeezing, choking and tail pulling these days. You can't tell from this photo! They look like best friends....

We end our days around here with bubbles in the tub. Millie designed this bubble hat all by herself.

Afterwards its so nice to warm up next to the woodstove, wrapped up in a towel and snuggled next to mama. A drink of milk, a kiss goodnight, and it's time for bed...tomorrow's another day!

Sno-Park

Quick trip up to Hyak for some sledding. Guess living close to the pass does have its advantages. Well sometimes...

Millie's first sled ride.

Getting a bit tuckered out.

A busy day in the life of Millie

Doing the wash for Mama.

Cooking the dinner.

Balancing the household finances.

Decorating the fridge.

Taking care of some of Papa's to-do list.

Ah, so much work, so little time.

Back at it!

Hi Everyone,

Mama and Papa were so busy cleaning up after the second flood of the winter, that they weren't able to do a blog entry lately, so I guess its up to me! Here I am modeling the latest in ladybug designer clothing. More later, Millie

Winter Wonderland!

Millie wants to be just like her papa! As soon as she saw him with his binoculars to do a bit of bird watching, Millie ran to her room and grabbed her binoculars too!

We have bird heaven here outside our backroom. So many birds, especially now that food is scarce. They all seem to fly and flutter around our bird feeder. We go thru a lot of birdseed these days!

This photo was taken in the middle of the road looking out our house. You can't even tell where the road is!
As I write this blog, I can hear lots of dripping and sloshing outside as the snow is quickly melting. We had temps today in the mid 40s. But we did have over a week and a half of freezing temperatures and constant snowfall here in Snoqualmie. Since snow like this is rare, so is the snow removal equipment. The entire city of Seattle only has 27 snow plows. When Snoqualmie called a state of emergency, they were finally able to contract construction equipment to scoop some of the snow from the roads and dump it at the parks down the street.

Millie had a blast in the snow. I pulled her on this sled up and down the roads in town.

Here is just one of the many snow piles at the town park! The kids loved it and I'm kind of sad to see it go.

This was our road. As you can see the roads were pretty snow covered. Since the Seattle area does not normally plow, sand or salt the roads, most people just stayed off the roads. It was so quiet that week! No garbage collection, limited mail, blizzards, burst pipes, closed mountain passes, no bus service, cancelled airline flights, it truly was a December storm to remember.

Now that's a big snow drift!

Millie wanted to play with our neighbor's "christmas tree." She will really miss all the lights, presents, snow and sledding!

Looks like we almost lost her here! I haven't included any photos of the slushy mess in the roads now. These photos are so much prettier!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Our Christmas wish would be to have our families with us on Christmas. But since family is scattered all over the world, we'll keep you up to date on-line! Merry Christmas to Everyone from Melanie, Mike and Millie.

And let the festivities begin!!! I am so excited for Christmas just to experience it thru Millie's eyes. We put some of the presents under the tree a few days before Christmas Eve and slowly added more the next day. Millie was so ready to tear into her packages by the evening. (We open our presents Christmas Eve and on Christmas morning we may even find some treats in our stockings.)

We love books here! Millie actually stopped tearing into packages to do a bit of "reading" before continuing.

So many fun presents!

Even a new teddy! They practiced dancing along to the Christmas music before getting a little bit sleepy.

Millie loved her baby crib and really wanted to put her teddy bear down for a nap, as you can see she try to lay teddy right into the photo on the box.

But as soon as we woke up the next morning, Papa assembled the new bed and all Millie's dolly's got to try it out. We awoke to more snow falling outside! We definitely got our white Christmas this year and it has made it feel so cozy and put us all in the holiday spirit!

Blizzard?

It's 9:35 p.m., the temperature is 19 F and wind is gusting at 55 m.p.h. The soft powder snow that lay on the ground is whipping around creating blizzard like conditions outside. Unfortunately, it's too dark to take any photos. So I will just settle in with a good book and listen to the sound of the wind howling outside. I hope everyone here stays safe and off the roads.

The aftermath, what a mess. Doesn't seem like alot, but the wind cleared the street and sidewalf for us, the side of the house has about 3' drifts. Things are worse down in Seattle, airport, bus station, and amtrak, so thing's could be worse. Today we built a sledding hill next to the house out of a snow drift for Millie, will take a picture tomorrow.