"snow" day

it actually snowed here on friday! i know you're thinking: "snow? in TEXAS?! melissa is a liar!" but no! now, of course, none of it actually stuck to the ground and accumulated, but we did get a brief flurry of honest-to-goodness snow!

sadly, this is the best picture i could get of it:

yeah, like 5 white specks :p. the camera didn't really pick up on the flakes well :(.

but guess who came out to see the strange event...

pete! here he is on our driveway, and you can see a few flecks of snow in the air.

so cute. we started leaving some worms outside for him every few days (extras from what we feed our leopard geckos), and he loves them so much that he hangs out around our house all the time now with his lady friend :).

i wish it snowed here in central texas more often. we get a little bit of it every 5 years or so, but mostly in the winter we just get ice. i'm originally from ohio, and haven't seen bunches of snow in person since i was really little, and i miss it!

♥,

melissa

busy busy busy!

whew, this holiday season has been soooo busy so far! i thought i'd take a moment to update you while i can :).

first:

it would appear that pete has a lady friend! my husband and i call her 'patty' because we're silly.

here's pete from the other day, and you can tell they're two different roadrunners because of their patterns and one has more orange by its eyes than the other.

fancy feet pete :).

also, i've been writing a novel in my spare time (!). i used to write all the time, but since an unfortunate occurance in my life when i was 18, i haven't written much... until recently! it feels good to have those creative juices flowing again after 7 years of a dry spell.

the holidays are coming up quickly, and i can barely keep up! i hope you're all keeping warm and being happy and enjoying family and friends - i don't know about you, but this time of the year always makes me especially grateful for everything i have :).

♥,

melissa

meet pete

we have a little roadrunner friend who hangs out around our house. he's an interesting little guy! i love his call - it sounds like a dove, only almost electronic sounding, as it echoes. i call it the "electronic dove". we named him pete, who knows why :p.

i'll miss pete when we move!

♥,

melissa