Springtime Surprise

Chris and I are always joking about how our house feels like Snow White's cottage. There are always squirrels playing in the yard, birds chirping, even the odd deer walking around the neighborhood.

We've also had a very sweet bunny living in our front yard that our son has lovingly named the "Easter Bunny".
Every morning the kids run down and check the front window to see if the "Easter Bunny" is still nestled in under our tree. Our two year old daughter is especially enamored with our bunny. She spends a lot of time watching the window, talking to our little friend.

The other day Chris went out to mow the lawn. A few minutes later he excitedly called us all out to come and check out what he had found....

Our "Easter Bunny" had babies! There snuggled in the grass were three teeny tiny, cute & fluffy newborn bunnies!

The kids were so excited to see them, and to be honest so were Chris and I!
I've never seen bunnies so small. They could have fit in the palm of my hand.
So, so, so cute!


I LOVE spring!

Circle of Life

BANG!!

"What was that?!" Chris asked

"It sounded like someone threw something at our window." I said as I got up to inspect our dinning room window. After a quick glance, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

"Hmmmm, I guess not...."

A while later we were sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch and noticed a magpie sitting in the middle of our backyard. He's busy, plucking away at something......GROSS!!- he is actually eating another bird! Right there in the middle of our yard! There he was plucking out all the feathers and then off he flew, carrying his dinner with him.....

After he flew away I sent Chris out to make sure there weren't any leftovers, after all that is where our kids go out to play :(

So, out he goes. He checks out the spot and nope we don't have to worry. He decides to check out the rest of the backyard. When he gets closer to our dinning room window, he notices feathers stuck to it.....and laying beneath is another dead bird! Poor little birds flew straight into our window!!! ( so we really weren't hallucinating when we heard that loud BANG!)

Chris thinks it's because from the outside you can see straight through that window all the way to the outside in the front. Poor birdies didn't know there was actually a window there.

Chris came back in to figure out what to do with the poor bird, meanwhile Mr. Magpie came back for his second course. He was circling around the spot where our little friend lay...... and before we knew it, off he flew with the second little birdie.

I guess one good thing came out of it....now Chris doesn't need to worry about disposing the body.

Yuck!!

I suppose it's all part of the circle of life.....however I do prefer to watch the circle of life on the Lion King rather than in my own backyard!