Riverdance

Last night Mark and I went to see Riverdance at UF. This is their farewell tour and it was wonderful! (even better because we had great seats and were able to get student tickets so they were just $10). It made me want to be back in Ireland!

Birds & Bailey

It was a quiet weekend here. Bailey turned 3 on Friday, so I made her favorite peanut butter treats. The only other news is the arrival of a blue jay to our feeders.

Waiting patiently . . . this is before they went in the oven.

Blowing out her candles with Mark . . .

Welcome to Bailey Heaven

If you've ever wondered what Heaven looks like for Bailey, the following pictures will show it all! When we got home from work yesterday there was huge box sitting on the porch. Bailey (for some reason) thinks every package that arrives is for her, so she sat shaking with excitement as I opened it. The box was filled with plastic bottles, and this is what happened. . . .






THANK YOU RACHEL!!!!

More from Arbor Day

As the final event of Arbor Day 2009 last week, Mark attended the City Commission meeting in order to receive the official Arbor Day Proclamation. The link below takes you to the City Commission Meeting. Once the video comes up click the "Jump To" pull down menu below the video. Go to "Arbor Day-January 16, 2009", and it should bring you to the part Mark is in.

http://gainesville.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=486&publish_id=&event_id=

Cupcakes

I put the new background up in honor of the awesome cupcake calendar Rachel gave me for my birthday. It has a cupcake a day, with bright colorful pictures and has the recipe on the back of each day. I made my first batch this weekend: Key Lime.

The Birds are Back in Town

This is Mrs. C. Brown.


Mark's new peanut feeder is the white one in the front. The birds seem to already like it but we haven't gotten a good picture yet.











This is a house finch, a new arrival to our feeders












Our crazy feeder contraption . . . Mark just made the white peanut feeder on the far left. After many attempts we've finally squirrel proofed the feeders! This "Advanced Pole System" is highly recommended!













Mrs. C. Brown again. She lives across the street. Mark's becoming quite the photographer.











This is one of our woodpeckers, the Red Bellied. They love the suet feeder.

The Finches have arrived!

We put out a finch feeder about a week ago with little success, but today . . . they arrived! They weren't on the finch feeder, but they were here. We had a goldfinch and a house finch! Hopefully more to come over the weekend :-)