The weather is pretty mild over here in Western Oregon, and we don’t get much snow. Sometimes it will snow once or twice during the winter, but it almost never sticks.

Yesterday, I woke up, and there was snow on the ground, it was awful weird. By the end of the day, we were sitting outside playing .

Today, it was nice and sunny, so I put the chicks outside in their run to plan, and 10 minutes later, they were being snowed on. As soon as I brought them back in, the sun came back out.

Needless to say, when I went and got them at 7 this evening, they were cold and huddled in the corner. I don’t blame them, they were COLD. It is cold here.

I don’t know where these global warming freaks are getting their data, but it certainly isn’t coming from over here.

I was told that this is the latest that it has EVER snowed here in recorded history.

I think the groundhog needs to look for different employment because it has been 6 weeks, and I don’t see any spring.

Daphne has had over a billion kisses in her lifetime. I guarantee that that is on the low end. I am always kissing her on the neck and on the cheek and pretty much anywhere that you can kiss a baby.

Today, when I was kissing her, she puckered her lips up like a fish and makes a kissing noise.

I can’t describe how cute it is. She will bend over toward the person she is trying to kiss, and she puckers her lips and makes the kissing sound.

It seriously melts my heart. The first and second time that she did it, I laughed so hard until I cried, and she insisted on doing it every time I asked for the rest of the afternoon.

I don’t know why there are not more kids in the world. This is too much fun.

Every morning, Daphne and I wake up and we go in to wake her daddy up. She then climbs up on the bed, and she puts her head on her dad, and she says, “Hi.” It is really adorable when she does this.

Now, when she meets other people that she knows well, she will walk up to them, and she will hug them and say, “Hi.”

I personally think it is the best greeting in the world, and I am glad that I get several of them each day.

Daphne learned the word “eye” today. She was sitting playing with her dad, and he said eye while she was trying to rip his eye out, and she repeated him. Now, she uses the word constantly. She knows the proper physical object that goes with the word, because if you point to her eye, she will say, “Eye.”

I like that she is improving like this. How much fun is she?

I have just discovered, to my great relief that my last semester of school is officially over!

I looked up my final grades, and that means that they are final.

I got two A’s and a B. It is worse than I expected, but still better than nothing. My GPA is still 3.83, so I have a bit of wiggle room. At this point, I am just trying to complete the degree so that I can graduate. It will be so wonderful to have a college degree.

And now, on to the next semester. I am taking 14 credits this semester, which is crazy. I only have to take 12, but one of the classes is 6 credits long, so I had no choice but to take it. It is what is called the Capstone, and it is the last major class I need to take as a senior before I get to do “whatever” I want. After this semester, I only need 19 more credits of “whatever” to graduate. I was hoping to be done with school by Christmas, but that may be a long shot unless I do some magic tricks in the summer, which, I may pull off.

I am still trekking along. At least I know better at the beginning of this new term what I have left to complete. I feel closer and closer to the end every day now.

This is another session that I really enjoyed. I like how these came out.

I did some maternity photos for a friend, and they came out well.

Every once in a while, I set up a session with Daphne and take some photos with her. I actually had my apprentices help with this shoot, and they took many of these photos.

These are some of my favorites.

Neither Jared or I wrote this. Who did it? We can’t figure it out, but until further notice, we will assume Daphne knows how to write her name.

Daphne and I figured out how to build a bridge out of foam. Here it is.