The Rain Has Arrived

Rain, rain and more rain! That is what we have seen all day. I love the rain though. I'm just a little concerned by how much rain we are suppose to receive this week. They are predicting approximately 20 inches over the next 5 days. This is great but bad all at the same time. The city of Corona has required water rationing since summer 2009. On the good side, the rain will help that. On the bad side, the hills and mountains that burned can't handle this much rain. There are chances of major flooding and mudslides. We are fortunate that we do not live in a flood or mudslide area. For now I guess we will just wait and see how things go.

Loving our Weather

We have had some amazing weather for January. Due to some furlough days the kids did not have to go back to school until January 6th. We took full advantage of the beautiful weather and spent one day at the park. We took Ozzy with us. He does not always like going on walks but when he knows we are going to the park he gets a little more excited. I think he gets nervous because he is so small. He is full grown now and only weighs about 4lbs! Not much of a dog but he's perfect for us.

Ozzy looking all handsome

Mady is so in love with Ozzy. He's her little buddy.

We packed a lunch and Ozzy was hoping Brandon would turn his head so he could swipe his sandwich!

Mady being Mady!

This is what Ozzy loves to do...run!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

It's so hard to believe that it is already 2010. It seems like we just rang in 2009. Where did the time go? We spent our New Year's Eve with just the four of us. It's so hard to keep Mady up until midnight so we went to a later showing of the new Chipmunks movie. Then we came home and played a few of our new games; Guesstures and Sequence. Guesstures is probably one of our most favorite games to play. The kids got it for Christmas. We had so much fun playing it and laughed so hard. We all rang in the New Year and then promptly crashed.

New Years day we watched the parade and then headed out for a nice long hike. The weather was beautiful. It was in the low 70's which is a little high for this time of year. It was great though. I never get bored with our hikes. Scott and I went on another hike the next day in the mountains behind our house. Mady is not quite tall enough for this hike. There are several areas where you need long legs and lots of upper body strength. Scott and I are trying to prepare ourselves for our anniversary trip to Yosemite where we plan to hike Half Dome. Half Dome is approximately a 16 mile hike straight up the mountain. On average it takes about 10 hours to complete. We are so excited to do it but need to get some more strenuous hiking in first. Good thing we have 4 1/2 months to work on it.

This was at the top of our 2nd hike.

Making our way to the top.

This was New Year's Day.

This ecological reserve is one of my favorite places to hike.

We stopped under this huge tree to eat lunch.