The Blackburn Family

As most of you know I am the co-organizer of our local House Rabbit meetup group. We are holding our second annual Rabbit Day on February 28th at Animall in Morrisville. Our fundraiser this year is a bunny photo contest. I submitted a photo of Tuscan and Moose today. I also sent one in of Apple because he is so cute. I need your votes so I can win an awesome price!

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You can vote multiple times so keep on voting for us!!!

To learn more about our event click HERE to see our event website.

I can’t even remember the last time we had a lot of snow (by a lot I mean covers the grass). I honestly don’t remember the last time we had enough to cover the grass and keep me out of work!! I know we have had ice storms and some flurries, but the last few years we have had NO snow. When I went to work yesterday I had no idea it was going to snow. That is usually when we get the most. If they had been talking about it all week we would have had nothing. They were calling for 1-3 inches, but we got at least 6! I decided not to go in to work and I am glad I stayed home. It takes me 35 mintues to get to work when I am going 75 mph! It would have taken me an hour this morning and there were lots of accidents. The roads are fine now so I guess I have to go back tomorrow. Plus I will have to try to work 10 hour days to make up my time. Maybe I will just take some vacation time.

Anyway, we went out in the snow a few times, but it was too dry for a snowman. It should all be gone tomorrow since it is going to be 40 and should be in the upper 50’s by the end of the week. Crazy weather. This could be our last snow for a long time. I hate to see it go. We tried to get JD out in the snow, but he wasn’t too interested. Casey had to put him out on the deck. He looked around a minute and then came inside. I thought about bringing the bunnies out, but the snow would have covered them and they would have been all wet so I brought some snow in to them. Moose ate it and liked it a lot, but Tuscan didn’t care about it one bit.

Click HERE to see the rest of my photos from today.

Sorry for the delay in posting, but Christmas is a busy time. Plus I have gotten hooked on a wii game that is occupying all my time. I had to set some limits for myself or nothing was going to get done. Now I understand why Casey plays every night! No, I am not playing WOW. I am hooked on Animal Crossing. I decided to rent it from Blockbuster before investing in the game and the first night I played it was a bit boring. Then I kept playing and I read a bit online about all the cool things I can do! Ever since then I have been glued to the TV playing. It is one of those games that never really ends. You sell things, buy things, go fishing, visit the city, go to friend’s towns, design clothes, get your hair done, you know fun girly things. Casey thinks it is ridiculous, but it is the EXACT same thing as his game except for girls.

Casey really wants me to mention that before Christmas he went to tour the Childress race facility. Here are the pictures he took while he was there. I let him take my camera even though I really didn’t want to! He didn’t break it.

I also put some pictures from Christmas on flickr here. For Christmas this year we gave Casey’s parents a new bathroom! The kids all went in together to remodel their hall bathroom. We took down the wallpaper, painted, cleaned the tile and added some new accessories. There are lots of pictures in the flickr album. We also played a lot of Mario Kart with the kids while we were down there. Karley and I usually worked as a team (me steering and her hitting the gas) and we always had to be the princess. Also, mom got the mink this year as a present from Sally and Kenny. I am pretty sure I mentioned the mink awhile back when she lived with us, but just in case here is the story. Mom found the mink when cleaning up Uncle Ned’s house (which is also the house she grew up in). The mink belonged to her grandmother so she decided all the descendants should care for the mink. I got it two years ago at Christmas and it was disgusting. It is an actual mink complete with toe nails and eyes. When you open it up (especially when you aren’t expecting it) it really freaks you out. Make sure to check out the pictures of mom’s face when she opened it. Here are the pictures from when the mink lived with us. Here are the ones dad took when I opened it.

We didn’t do anything special for New Year’s Eve, but I did manage to stay up until midnight. I am not sure why since all we did was watch them count down and then I went to bed. I might as well have just gone to bed at 10. New Year’s Day we cooked a special meal (per Casey’s instruction). We had black eyed peas (I think for luck), green beans (for money, I don’t eat any other greens), ham (no idea why) and sweet potatoes (also no idea why). Hopefully it will bring us luck and lots of money! I didn’t much like 2008 so I have high hopes for 2009. I feel like it will be a much better year than 2008. At least I am not turning 30 this year.

Okay, I think that is enough! I have a couple other things to do before I can play my game again!!

Here are a few pictures I took today of the bunnies and JD. They had a really hard day.