Spring Forward...

Last weekend (before the snow came) I was in the Spring mood, so I pulled out our Easter decorations. I began by setting our breakfast table for Easter...and let the bunny in our kitchen hold a few Easter eggs in Easter grass...

I then added a bunny to our island...
and our counter...
and the chest in our living room, along with some Easter eggs...

Thankfully, the weather has turned back Spring-like, and we have been taking advantage of it!

Molly, John and Brady invited us to go to the zoo with them yesterday. We had so much fun, and the weather was just perfect for it!

Brady kept us entertained on the ride to the zoo...
When we got to the zoo, we stopped for just a minute to let Brady play with the water pool...
Then we walked around the zoo and looked at the animals.

We saw all sorts of animals; I don't even remember the names of some of them, like the ones below, but I thought these guys were too cute!

We saw hippos...We saw lions...We saw elephants...
and giraffes...There were a lot of giraffes, but it was really neat to see the mama and baby giraffe both eating from the hay bowl suspended on the tall pole - there were so sweet!

Brady really liked watching the ostriches...

We walked through the aviary which was pretty neat. They had different species of birds to see, like these fruit doves...

this pretty pink cockatoo...

and these pygmy falcons...
It also had a room which was open so that the birds could fly right over our heads!
We also saw ducks...

and swans...and penguins...

and flamingos...Brady didn't want to be in his stroller too much; he wanted to be out so that he could see everything up close, so Charles gave John's shoulders a rest for a bit!

We took a little break so that Brady could play on the playground; he had a great time!

We then saw some more animals. We saw the pandas. I was excited because the older panda was outside enjoying his bamboo!The baby panda stayed inside, but he enjoyed his bamboo too...

I really enjoyed the primates; they all seemed to put on a show for us!

The silver back gorilla was sitting on his rock watching all the people watching him...

He then walked off of it...

and flopped down on his side on this rock...He kept opening and closing his eyes, just playing with us all!

We also saw the baboons. It was so sweet, the baby baboon jumped up in his mama's lap. After a quick hug, the mama seemed to point at all of us watching them...

Then the baby jumped down and put on a show for us! He ran down the log and let go of it with his hands so that he was dangling from it from his feet! It was pretty funny! He then jumped down to his tire swing...
Then he was off running around some more!

Then we saw the orangutans, which I just love! Well, when we first saw them, the older one was sitting on his perch and the younger one was sitting on the ground...

The older one then started swinging...

It was too funny!!

We had a great time at the zoo. After the zoo, we all enjoyed lunch at Pei Wei - delicious! We had a great time with the Bienvenus!

After we got home, I headed back outside to enjoy the weather by weeding the front beds - yuck - but they look so much better now!

OMG, you guys...

Charles and I saw Legally Blonde, the Musical last night, and it was wonderful!! After work, we enjoyed a nice pre-theater dinner and then headed to the Orpheum which was packed. The performance was absolutely wonderful! It was so energetic and funny, and they kept some of the best scenes, lines and outfits from the movie!! All of the actors were spot on in their performances (I must say that the UPS guy's entrances were just hilarious!), and Bruiser and Rufus were too cute! If you have the opportunity to see it, definitely do!!

Play Time

We decided to take Toula out to play in the snow. This was her first experience with the snow. At first she wasn't too sure of what was happening to her...

Then she got a little curious (check out her ears)...
and explored...

She only explored a little bit and quickly ran for cover...She ventured back out to explore the patio and nibbled on the snow that had accumulated on the bottom of the post...

(Check out her little bunny tracks in the snow; I think that they are just too cute!!)
She thought about venturing back out into the snow...but decided against it. She was really pleased with her decision once she found the birdseed...She decided to help the birds eat their breakfast!!

We brought her back inside, and once she was comfortable in her home again, Charles and I went back outside to play in the snow!!
Charles decided to make a snowball...

and threw it at me!!I too made a snowball...but I decided to take a bite out of mine (I just have to taste the snow!)...Of course, I had to make another snow ball to throw at Charles - I just had to get him back!! I also decided to be like LeBron James but use snow instead of chalk dust or whatever...This decision got a pretty good laugh out of Charles!

We then went to the front of the house and saw the beautiful snow on our shrubs...We stayed in the front for a while...Charles even agreed to "skate" on the driveway with me...The wind started blowing, and it got really cold! I had to move my scarf up for better coverage!!

Charles and I are both a little sick anyway, so we decided to go back inside where we could warm up, but we both had lots of fun in the snow!!

Snow

Yesterday, early to mid afternoon, we looked out the window and saw snow flakes falling!

Each time we looked out, the snow was either slacking off...
or falling harder... but it was still falling!

I was excited to see the first accumulation on the roofs...
The snow kept falling...

and kept falling...and soon, we began seeing accumulation on the ground!and on objects in the yard...Mama and Jerry drove up last night and took us out for dinner. We decided that they should experience Uncle Chuck's; it was delicious - thanks Mama and Jerry! Charles's car is in the shop, so they told him that he could use one of their vehicles for school Monday (although if it doesn't warm up today, he may not be driving Monday!). So, we drove with them back to Batesville and then drove their car back to our house. The whole drive to Batesville and back, it was snowing. At one point, it was snowing so hard and the wind was swirling the snow so much, Charles couldn't see anything in front of him and could barely see the white line on the road...Thankfully, we made it back home okay.

When we got back to the house, we had a little accumulation, and some snow had blown in on my pansies...When we woke up this morning, we had a bit more accumulation and a lot more snow had blown in on my pansies overnight!

I just love seeing our yard blanketed in snow!
The roads and driveways are icy!

I've only heard a couple of vehicles go by this morning. They are, thankfully, driving unusually slow, and as they go by, I can hear the crunching of ice!

Looking out on our chairs on our patio, I saw these little bird tracks...

So I had just had to put out a couple of hand fulls of birdseed on our patio (Charles put some out on our patio yesterday, but it too had been covered with blown snow)...I've already seen a couple of birds (one was so tiny and cute) enjoying their breakfast!!