Now THIS Is The Life!

Friday, June 5, 2009

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

We have some cranes that live in our neighborhood. I'm pretty sure they were here before any of the houses were. Our neighborhood used to be a BIG swampy, tree filled area. Now, the cranes like to wonder our streets and backyards squawking noisily! I looked up information on them and they are called Florida Sandhill cranes and are endangered. There are about 5000 left and we have at least 3 of them here in our neighborhood.

We have a bird feeder hanging in the tree in our backyard and one of the cranes came by for dinner. He has no problem standing on the ground and sticking his beak in to get some seeds. So that's where all the birdseed is going! The other birds (and ducks!) are scared to come near the tree when the crane is eating. It is quite a sight! It's like Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom has entered our backyard!

Here's a video of the crane having dinner. You can see the pair of ducks in the background wanting to come up and eat but scared to! The crane would squawk if they came any closer.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Playing in the backyard on a sunny day!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

1st Grade Awards

The Superstar had his awards program at school. He was so excited! He has really done well this year in first grade. We are very proud of him. He earned awards for AR, participating in Chorus, and having STRAIGHT A'S ALL YEAR! WOW!

Buddies with their favorite 1st grade teacher!

1st grade buddies!

The Superstar LOVES his teacher!

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Double Rainbow

Somewhere, over the rainbow...

Beautiful!

Rainbows are God's promise to never flood the earth again. I also take it as His promise to never "flood" us or overwhelm us with too much stress! God will never give you more than you can handle. I'm trying to remember that myself these days.