The Belly Bump

I have been asked to post pictures of my growing belly bump so here are the first shots... these are from Denise's birthday celebration on Thursday... a great day at the beach and an awesome dinner at mom's!!

Lily's Adventures

Well... now that we've had Lily for a week we are starting to let her out for supervised adventures... and she is loving it! She stalks all around attacking weeds and leaves, and she even climbs our little avocado trees. She went up on really steep branch and had fun exploring up high in the tree, until she realized she didn't know how to get back down. Luckily she was only about five feet high so when she finally meowed that she was ready to get down I could just pick her up and put her on the ground. Today she climbed an even steeper branch, but when she was ready to come down she just turned around and slid right down... she's a quick learner! We're very hopeful that she will be a good hunter too!

The New Lily

As most of you know... even after our month of convincing her she had the best new life with us, the first Lily cat was just too independent and left us to go have her own adventures. But since we still have rodents on the ranch, we still needed a little hunter, and we found her yesterday. This is the new Lily (since Geno and I liked that name so much we didn't want it to go to waste :) ). She is a six week old calico mix we adopted from my aunt Dorine and she is the cutest kitten!! Here are a few pictures and a short video... sorry there's no sound, I didn't want to distract her :)

Lily

We finally got our new "barn cat" and she is adorable! She was on her own, surviving in the wild for the first nine months of her life, so adjusting to her new home is a slow process, but it's going great! She is getting more and more comfortable with Geno and I every day and is loving snuggling in her bed, being pampered and cuddles... always on her terms of course! We know she's going to make a great addition to our home and hope she is willing to meet you when you come visit!!

Piru Motocross Park

Geno and I decided to spend the morning at Piru motocross park and had a great time!

Jumping Goats!

And in more recent news... lol... Geno built a play structure for the goats this weekend and I'll let their reaction to it speak for itself! They're ready to put on a show next time you come visit!!

P.S. Yes... they already christened it with their droppings!!

Yosemite

I know it's been a while since I posted anything here... but it's a new year and I'm going to try to keep this updated more often... starting today :)

Here are our favorite pictures from our New Year's in Yosemite... snowshoeing, ice skating, dinner and dance party, and snowboarding... that's what I call bringing in the new year!!