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World Nutella Day 2018

February 5 was World Nutella Day.  We had hazelnut spread sandwiches for dinner and for Family Home Evening Treat- Ferrero Rocher.

Yumm.  Great excuse for celebrating.

January Catch Up

So you want to know what we did in January that I didn't blog about (which was most of the month)?  O.K.  Let's catch up.

We celebrated:
January 7 was Old Rock Day.  A birding friend (yes, there was still a lot of birding) gave us an old rock- stigmaria.  It's a fossilized root.  Did I mention our birding friend is also a paleontologist?

January 8 was Elvis’ Birthday.  We didn’t have any Elvis movies to watch or songs to listen to.  We watched “The Court Jester” for Family Home Evening.  “Long live the king.”  That movie also had Angela Lansbury in it who played Elvis’ mother in a few of his movies.

January 10 was Peculiar People Day.  We celebrate by existing.
January 16 was Appreciate a Dragon Day.  Lucky watched "How to Train Your Dragon."  Nichole wore a dragon necklace.
January 17 was Popeye's birthday.  We had chicken salad with spinach in it.
January 18 was Winnie-the-Pooh Day.  Lucky and I played with “My Friends, Tigger and Pooh” figurines.  Later, Lucky put together a Winnie-the-Pooh puzzle.  We had a honey themed dinner- honey glazed ham, rolls with butter and honey, salad with honey mustard dressing.  Yumm.

January 19 was Brew a Potion Day.  It was also National Popcorn Day.  We watched “Hocus Pocus” while eating popcorn.

January 20 was Cheese (Lover’s) Day.  I think we had something cheesy for dinner.
January 21 was Squirrel Appreciation Day.  We didn’t celebrate that day but Jeremy got some good squirrel pictures a couple days later.

January 23 was Pie Day.  I made impossible cheeseburger pie for dinner and an apple pie for dessert.  We used our new Pi plate.

January 24 was National Compliment Day.  I tried to be nice to my kids all day.
January 25 was a Room of One’s Own Day.  I did spend some time in my room that day reading and watching a movie, but I wasn’t able to spend as much time as would have been nice since Jeremy was working.  Oh well.  I wasn’t going to tell him not to work just so I could celebrate by being lazy.  Also the DVD player I was using to watch my movie kept goofing up so it wasn't as relaxing because of it.  Oh well again.
January 28 was National Kazoo Day.  Jr. shared his talent.

January 29 was National Corn Chip Day.  We had chili and corn chips.  January 29 was also National Puzzle Day.  The kids watched me play some Monkey Island.

January 31 was Backwards Day.  We had dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner.  The boys were very happy because they also had dessert before their morning meal.  They didn’t think about wearing their clothes backwards this year.  Oh well.  Jr. did walk backwards when coming to meet me after school.

We did other things:

Jr. Jr. got an award for a school project he did.

 Jeremy and Lucky went to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point one day.

Lucky and I had a teddy bear picnic.  It was too cold to have it outdoors so we picnicked in the back of the van while Daddy was out birding (told you there was birding).

Jeremy and I went on a date to a dinner with other birders.

We dragged the kids out birding with us a few times. 

We also enjoyed a nice drive around the lake one evening.

We met some new birds- blue jay, Northern pygmy owl, and Pacific wren.  There were some others as well.

We found a friend outside the church building on the way to church one morning.  A red-naped sapsucker. 

It was still there when we got out of church and when we went back for choir practice.  When we got out of choir practice it was still there so I was taking pictures when another birder came up behind me with her camera.  She found out from Jeremy about the sapsucker and it was a new life bird for her.
Over the next few days several other birders came to see the sapsucker.
 
And that was January.

Superb Owl Sunday

We're not really football watchers.  We're bird watchers.  So instead of celebrating Super Bowl Sunday this year, we celebrated Superb Owl Sunday.
This is how Jeremy kept awake in Sacrament Meeting today.

Don't you just love it.  I do.  Jeremy based his drawing on this photograph of a burrowing owl we took a couple years ago.  I love it.

100 Groundhogs

Today was the 100th day of school and the 1st graders were encouraged to dress up as if they were 100 years old.  Jeremy let Jr. Jr. wear his tux jacket and take his dapper cane and an old bowler.
Lucky dressed up like a pirate (see previous post).  Jr. Jr. did a good job staying in character.  Cute... slow... kid/old man.

Besides the 100th day of school, it was also World Wetlands Day and Groundhog Day.
We celebrated World Wetlands Day by going birding, part of the time was to some wetlands.

We celebrated Groundhog Day by eating imitation groundhog burgers. 

We did a lot in January but we were also busy and I didn't blog that much.  Maybe I'll catch up again someday.  Who knows?  You'll just have to come back and see.

The KAT's Meow

After listening to the radio ("Listen to Your Heart")-
Lucky:  I'm not going to listen to my heart.  I'm going to listen to you, Mom.


Mom (thinking of Jr. Jr. and the 100th day of school): We’ve got to figure out how Jr. Jr. is going to dress up tomorrow.
Lucky:  I’m going to dress up like a pirate.

Happy Birding to You

So far this year either Jeremy or I have been out birding every day.  Of course yesterday, January 5, was National Bird Day so we had to go birding.  Jeremy and I both went out along with Lucky.  We saw some neat things.

We also ran into some other birders.  One birder we know directed us to where we were able to find a new bird I'd never seen before.  The pictures I took weren't that great, but I was happy to get a new life bird.

Yesterday evening Jeremy made rice crispy birds to celebrate the holiday.

The boys played my birding card game that I got for my birthday last year.

We weren't going to go birding today but right after we got home from a Primary "getting to know you" breakfast this morning (we got to wear pajamas), a fellow birder called us to let us know of a bird we'd been looking for.  We were able to make it in time to see this bird.  Hooray!

I love this birding community we're part of.  So many great people with this shared interest in birds and who are so willing to help each other find what we're looking for.