(Best Picture Ever) GO OWLS!!!

Nash and his friend Landon praying with the guys after we beat Mountain Pine which secured us a place in regionals.

As most of you know, this is a busy time of year for us. ALS Owls won 2nd place in districts Friday night losing to England by 2.  This week we start regionals. If we win the first game, Thursday night against Clarendon we will automatically go to State. This has been a hard but exciting year for Chris and the team.  So I am proud already of how well they have done but think it will be awesome if we could make it to State. GO OWLS!!!!

Valentine's Day

We had a good Valentine's Day. This was the first year that Nash had a Valentine's Day party with him being in "school". He gave his teachers mugs, with kisses, stuffed animals and cards and he gave his classmates cards with suckers attached. We also baked some heart-shaped cookies for their Valentine's Day party. He had a lot of fun.

Nash in his Valentine's Day shirt. "Mr. Perfect"

The valentines he got from his classmates

We got Nash a Valentine's Dog Pillow Pet. He has been wanting a Pillow Pet until Christmas and I thought this one was cute.

Chris and I had a good Valentine's Day as well. He sent me red and purple tulips to work as a surprise and gave me a sweet card. We went out to eat and were reminded of the other reason besides his usual basketball tournment that we don't normally go out on Valentine's Day. The wait was horrible and it was crowded. We actually kind of shared a table with another cupple with his divider thing in the middle. It was odd but something we were able to make a few jokes out of. We had a good time though and enjoyed our time together and the food was great.

Our New Addition

Introducing......Rufus Horton 12 weeks old.

What possessed me to get a puppy you ask? I don't know. Other than Chris and I just started talking about it one day and it got carried away. My thought was our dog Sadie will be 14 in June. Cocker's Spaniel's typical life span is between 9 and 15 years. Sadie is in good health (that we know of ) but he can hardly see or hear anymore. He mainly just lays around and eats. When Nash goes outside he wants Sadie to go out and chase him and well that doesn't really much happen. So, the idea of Rufus came about. We wanted another Cocker Spaniel and perferrably a black and white one or we thought about getting a chocolate one. Long story short, I found an add for black and white ones and got super excited because they are hard to find and here is Rufus!

Nash loves him. I think he wanted him to be littler since he is a bigger than some of the puppies he recently has seen. We refered to him as our "little Sadie" before we got him and he is the runt of the litter which was all the more appealing to us.

Sadie and Rufus play good together. Rufus loved Sadie immediately (more than any of us). They played real well together. Sadie had to set some limits finally with him but he responded good to that. (He's so cute. One one side he is pretty much white and the other side he has big black spots that almost look like hearts)

 Nash loves that he has a dog that wants to chase now. I had forgotten how much energy puppies have. Rufus has played non-stop until just recently. He prances when he walks and is constantly under my feet checking stuff out.

We love our Rufus and think he is going to fit in great with our family.

Snow Days

As most of you know, we had a bunch a snow Wednseday. This time we got to sled down the massive hill by our house. It was a ton of fun. This hill is pretty much epic in Sherwood. People come from different neighborhoods to go down it. Here are a couple pics of us going down it.

Nash went down it a couple of times but that was before the camera was out. Then he decided he wasn't crazy about it. He loved it going down and was excited but afterwards decided he didn't want to go again.

I like this picture because it shows how much snow we got.

Nash liked to go out exploring.

Sadie enjoyed it as well.

My little penguin

So, we got a five day weekend out of the deal. That makes me happy.