Eagle Release

We were blessed to be able to see an eagle release on Sunday. Lynanne from Salamonie along with other volunteers have been rehabilitatin a juveline bald eagle.

They have been working with "Mosie" for the past year. He was found with a broken wing. This was an emotional time for the volunteers.



There was a round of cheering for him once he took off.

winter fun

We spent saturday afternoon sledding. We had so much fun, before the afternoon was over Haven was going down the hill by herself. We were frozen so of course, we had to end the fun with hot cocoa and cookies in the van on the way home.

You know you live in the country when..

You know you live in the country when you send your kids out to play in the snow while you cook dinner, you look out the window to check on them and this is what you see.

Wonderful Pappa had been moving hay bales and ended up taking the kiddos sledding behind the tractor! I just love this country life (not to mention, I relish time alone in the kitchen, I even whipped up a dessert, I was so excited). There's nothing like a warm meal, yummy dessert, followed by a testimony "when I was a kid, I had to actually walk up a hill (true story I swear!) to go sledding...

Eagle Watch

My sweet red-nosed kiddos

You can't see from this picture but we were able to view several eagles on this "island" of trees-amazing.

We went to an early (5:30 am. eek!) bald eagle watch this past Saturday. After the trauma of leaving so early (I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that I stayed out until 1:02 at a booksale/dinner with a couple of my favorite girlfriends...)we had a wonderful time. It is so amazing to see these majestic creatures sitting on their aeries (aka nests) getting ready to head out for a day of hunting. (I have to wonder what they were thinking about the crazy humans with the red noses staring at them). This is one of my favorite ways to teach the kids about God's greatness-being in nature (though not always at 5:30 in the morning).

Our dear friend, Ms. Chris who was also at the eagle watch, invited us to visit her audubon group, last night. I was so excited. I had been praying for a way to work birding into our schooling for a couple of years now and just couldn't seem to do it (seeing that this is something I know little about makes it even more daunting). We had a great time. Their speaker happened to be a gentlemen that had led a birding expedition we went to last fall so the kids had that connection and the group made my kids feel very welcome and invited us back for their meeting next month. God is so good (read: never quite praying).