THE BEGINNING OF 2011

                        First of all, we had the best winter ever in St. Louis since I moved here. Lots of snow and more predicted to come and I love it. So far I have gotten pretty good exercise shoveling snow for the past few weeks.

The view from our garage

Hard at work with my little helper

Very enjoyable work in this weather

Just about done

Other exciting things have happened already this year, like Donna`s Birthday, the Australian Open, the Super Bowl, baby-sitting Nitro, and the main event, Tony and Amy’s visit all the way from Panama City Beach.

I love to feed the birds when it snows

Close-up



Regrettably, not everything went my way, I was very disappointed when my boy Roger Federer lost to the joker in the semi-final, and also, my favorite, Steelers had to take a loss against the Packers. Well, I guess I have to live with it.

Jacob and myself still had hopes for the Steelers at this time

Even Luke started to get in to the game

Brian was stressed out for nothing, his Packers finally won

Luke lost interest in the game and put the final touch to his wolf sculpture

Everything else went great. Tony and Amy arrived on Wednesday night, the day before Donna`s Birthday. They woke up to 11 inches of freshly fallen snow. I believe shoveling snow was the last thing on Tony’s mind, but he helped me and ended up doing most of the work.

Amy and Tony's welcome platter

Good looking fruit for being in the middle of winter

Donna took off from work and we celebrated her birthday with good food, drinks and in good company with Daniel and Eric. Gina (prior engagement), Karla, (work), and Brian and family were missing the party. By the way, we did not see Brian all of January, being busy plowing streets and parking lots for his snow removal company.

Great conversation between two super ladys

Except a tiny trip to a local bar for 3 hours we spent the next 3 days at home, eating, drinking, dancing, playing cards, playing the wii and taking care of the dogs. Great Fun!! Times like that pass really fast and sadly Tony and Amy left us Monday morning. Can't wait for our next reunion.

Let the card game begin

Russian rummy

Happy winners

The score keeper

The dancing begins

Dancing queen

Good time

Tony got in on the action

It can`t get much better

Amy relaxing with Lola and Tahyo

Tony looks content

Tahyo and myself needed some rest

Beginning February Gina and Daniel spent a week vacation in Acapulco and we spent that time baby-sitting Nitro.

Nitro never rests around me

but is an angel with Donna

Nitro

I believe he had a real good time over here, roaming free and tasting some gourmet table food! I saw a tear in his eye when he had to leave to go back home.