Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Must Read Book

SWITCH

This is a must read book! From a big change to a little change this book has a great narrative and is very interesting, it is down right awesome!!!

Coronado Butterfly Preserve

While in Santa Barbara this past week we decided to check out the Butterfly preserve. If you don't know what that is well. . . . . . it's where the Monarch Butterflies spend the winter. There are tons and tons of butterflies. As it warms up they fly around but on cooler days they clump together up in the trees.

The walk in. . .

A fallen butterfly. . .

The darker clumps right under this are the butterflies hanging in the trees.

We had a great time in Santa Barbara!

The Frenchie and the Wheaten. . .

A time lapse that Mikey put together of our dog Nikko and his uncle Ry dog walking down to the beach in Santa Barbara. The Quality of this video on blogger isn't the best but you can either view it on youtube or just change the resolution at the bottom of the video and it will look much better.

New Year's

So for the New Year we headed up to the Hart's cabin with them for a weekend of fun! The cabin is up in the mountains and the only way to get to it is by snowmobile. So we strapped Nikko to Brian's chest and headed up to the cabin.

Nikko giving Brian a pre-snowmobile ride kiss!

The Hart's cabin.

Yes that is Jen asleep on the couch in the background.

Once we arrived up at the cabin we settled in and started a fire. The weekend was full of hot cocoa, good food, lots of card games, movies, and naps!

Heating the water for some hot cocoa.

The Amazing Care Bears mugs.

Amazing Honey-Lime Chicken Enchiladas. Thank you Jen!

The Bubbly

Heather happy to be in the cold!

Brian and Jen

A -4(negative four) degree toast to the New Year!

Out on the sleds.

The winter wonderland.

We had a ton of fun riding the snowmobiles all around the mountains, pulling each other around on sleds, and watching Mike roll one of the snowmobiles while trying to climb a steep hill (luckily no one was hurt in the process).

NIKKO'S FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!

Nikko had his first birthday yesterday. To celebrate we bought a birthday cake dog treat and gave him some ice cream. He loved it!!! We love our little bubbawaabas!

One Happy Little boy!

The Nutcracker . . .

We decided that we needed to have a little holiday fun!!! So we called the Hart's to see if they wanted in and.... of course they did! Next thing we knew..... we were at The Nutcracker with them!!

Jen & Brian

Mike and I

Brian and Jen waiting for the show to start

Mike's Beautiful Mustache and I!!!

Another fun time with Great Friends!