December

Me with Isla while eating yummy food.

Pudge (Isla) under the tree

Isla with her dolly

Owen and Finn

owen, finn, and declan

Declan reading the paper

shoveling with Declan

Sugar Hill house after the storm

November Skiing

November 26-28

Alpine Meadows

ben

ben having a lot of fun!

Nancy playing in the snow!

European Chickens

our chicken adventures in europe:

mr. chicken??

i was excited because i found a chicken in paris!

chickens in versailles!

an egg in london!

we could not find any chickens in cassis so i brought my own!

Wedding

Mike, Amy, Ben, Marika, and Ari

bouquet from aunt donna and julie

we are married!

Summer 2010

this summer started off really well (we got engaged!) but then got a bit rough. spot got sick and died and ari needed knee surgery. we also had a lot of good times. here are a few of the fun moments of the summer!

tillie and etheldore

queen elizabeth

ari ended up having to wear a cone because he kept licking his incision

mexican breakfast!

playing on the john deer!

the newest addition to troutmere farm, goslynn, the african goose!

Fillet (now know as misty)
We found a knew home for fillet. She is living on a 10 acre farm in pescadero with lots of chicken friends and two nice children.

our new chicken coop!

Tillie!

ari's knee surgery

Ari tore his CCL earlier in the summer but it did not heal so he had to have surgery to fix it. He cannot be let off leash for two months.

it was really hard because i could not tell ari what was going on.

sad boy

ari doing one of the many things he should not be doing...

Spot

May 6, 2010 - June 28, 2010

my little friend

2 days before she died

Engagement Rock

Ben proposed to me while backpacking near roundtop off of carson pass.

starting to unpack the car

it was beautiful! everything was still covered in snow. we were able to ski most of the way to our campsite.

ben and ari

ben proposed to me at the rock in the background of the picture. he tied the ring around ari's neck!

I'm engaged!

skiing the next day

ari relaxing after skiing

ari taking a nap on ben!

ben making breakfast

having a burger at our favorite burger place in tahoe after skiing out!

Marguerite

marguerite has decided that she wants to be a mother (this is not good because she has stopped laying delicious egg and all she wants to do it sit on eggs). we have moved her into one of our rabbit hutches with wooden eggs and a big comfy nest. she comes out once a day to eat, drink, and go to the bathroom. she does those activities frantically so she can get back to her eggs! we got this great idea that maybe she would want to be the mother of the chicks! we put two of the chicks in the rabbit hutch with her, they immediately went under her wings so i went and got two more. after an hour ben and i checked on her and we saw four little heads peaking out from under her wings (it was the cutest thing ever!). since she could handle four we stupidly decided to give her the other four. we put them in then after a few minutes she got up screaming and ran out of the hutch (i think she was a bit overwhelmed). we brought the chicks back in the house and a few hours later we introduced two chicks again and a hour after that two more. two hours later we found four chicks huddled in the corner of the rabbit hutch. whenever they moved marguerite snapped at them. now we have all eight chicks back in our laundry room and a hen who is trying to hatch a wooden egg...

the wooden egg in the nest we made for her (this was done to prevent her from sitting on every egg the other girls laid)

Marguerite the broody hen...

the peeps!

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Matilda