Snow and kitchen backsplash

It's snowing outside right now and we are looking forwarded to getting out and playing in it more. We went up to Lolo pass last week and cross country skied. The best part, of course, was watching Sukha roll and play in the snow.....she loves it! We've still been mountain biking but by the looks of the weather this morning.....we will be retiring the bikes for the season. We also finished our kitchen backsplash last month. We are really pleased with how it turned out. We only have to use the tile saw for one more project and then we will return to my dad with a big red ribbon on it! We missed everyone at Thanksgiving. Russ and I have so much to be thankful for and we love you all!

Meet our new little friends!

The other morning we were looking out the front window and saw the cutest little raccoon in our irrigation ditch. He played around for a couple of minutes and then disappeared back into the pipe. I was pretty bummed that he didn't stay around a little longer!

So we were really excited when he showed back up with a friend!

And even more excited when another one popped up into the yard!

When I saw the fourth one I started worrying that they were waiting for a duck dinner in the backyard!

I couldn't get a good picture but six raccoons ended up playing in our yard for about fifteen minutes! I got it on video but figured that no one wanted to hear my ridiculous excitement that is audible on the video! They were super cute and we hope to see them again soon! By the way, the massive rock pile in the front of the house is our doing. We thought we would get around to building a berm covered in beautiful flowers this summer, but we didn't and now it is just a big ugly pile of cement, cinder blocks and rocks!