Bundles of Furry Joy...

This weekend Kyle and I went up to my mom's for an early Mother's day visit. When we were there we got to meet the neighbor's new batch of kitties!! If you know me, you know I was in hog heaven and had to be dragged away from the box of squirmy love. I nearly stuck one in my purse, but Kyle convinced me to leave them with their mama a little longer. Luckily, my mom gets to take one home with her!! Below is my mom's new love Beau (That's what I named him, I think that could change when she gets him home). He is a super cuddly, mellow, boy kitty and he stole my heart!!
This adorable little girl already has a home picked out otherwise she would have been mom's first choice. She was a little sweetie!
Here is mom-cat checking to see if Beau is alright after I walked too far away from the kitten box for her comfort.
Below are too little furry buddies that I could have just taken home right then and there! The little orange buddy is a boy kitty that I named Stanley. He was full of spunk. The grey girly reminded me so much of Lady when we first got her. Grey kitties are so pretty!!
Here's me and little Beau just bonding and snuggling. He just wanted to cuddle and cuddle. Such a cuddle bug!
This feisty little girl kept trying to climb up to my shoulders. Brave little one!

Meet your new PRL TA...

Kyle!!

Kyle found our that he got the Teaching Assistantship at the Product Realization Lab at Stanford. This is the same lab that he spent so much time in this winter making his various inventions. Here he is looking happy and relieved. This TA position means that his tuition at Stanford is covered, which is super duper awesome!!

DNA party time in S8...

My students are wrapping up their unit on DNA and genetics and we decorated up the room with their DNA projects and had ourselves a little DNA celebration Watson and Crick style :)

Visits from Dear friends and Peacocks...

Later in March one of my favorite people came to SLO for her birthday. Brie and Jason made the trek all the way from Texas to visit and hang out for her special weekend. We got to play sand volleyball at Pismo and go wine tasting in Avila. I did not manage to take any pictures of my special visitors, but I sure did get some pics of the peacocks at the winery.They have the birds just wandering around the property and perching on the owner's house. I've never seen a peacock up close before and they are super pretty and LOUD! Needless to say, after we had done a bit of wine tasting the peacocks were getting pretty annoyed by us ;)

It's OFFICIALLY a girl!!

When I went up to visit my family in March we got the exciting confirmation that Brett and Jill's baby is in fact, a girl!! My mom could not be more excited to finally get her granddaughter and Kyle and I are super stoked to have a niece!

My first present to baby Carlyn was a pink blanket. I've been dying to make one since my brothers started having kids and I finally get to make as many ruffly, girly, soft and cuddly blankets as I want!

Catching up...

It seems like its been ages since I've had time to get on here and update! A lot has been going on in our neck of the woods. Lets start with a trip to Tahoe in March for Erin's birthday and a farewell trip for my brothers. Ryan is off to Spain now and Brett is in Texas for basic training.

Below is Brady sporting some pretty rad beanie hair as we wait to find the perfect sledding hill. The weather was sunny and amazing and just perfect for a family day. Here is Cole standing on the "Olympic podium". I asked him what place he wanted to be and he said "third!". So here is our proud third place olympic sledder. Here is mom, Jill, and Brady on the shuttle to the park.