About Ithaca-- #1

So, deer have basically taken over Ithaca. There are deer all over the place here! We see deer most every morning and evening that we are outside. The other night Mike pointed out a deer right out our bedroom window. And, one morning on a run/walk we were 50 yards from a deer on the road, and it did not hurry away. These Deer are not afraid of anyone, they don't stay in the trees and spook easily  like Idaho deer, they graze in backyards and on the side of the rode like there is NO hunting season. O, yea.. That is exactly why they are in everyone's yards, there is no hunting here.
Apparently Ithaca is with deer how India is with cows.
We love us some deer up here! (;
I do think they are cool to have all over but I guess the increase in deer is actually hurting the environment. There are a lot of car wrecks caused by the deer and a lot of farmers have a hard time keeping deer out of their crops.
What a different world and kind of things to deal with then  what I was used to in Idaho and Utah. Crazy huh!??

{{All of these deer were seen within 5 mins. and two blocks of our apt.}}

More about the crazy deer here.

Family Pictures

I wanted to get 1 year old pictures of Graham and that turned into family pictures for all of us! I chopped my hair off and Graham looks so much bigger that I just wanted an updated picture. We had a good friend of ours take our pictures and they turned out great. These are the pictures I just ordered to do a gallery wall. I will show you what it looks like when it is up!

A day in New York

So, we made it to New York!! We are still settling in and trying to climb out from under boxes but, so far we love it! Here is what we did today---

We drove by THREE huge BEAUTIFUL sunflower fields! {Yes I took this while driving... I couldn't not!! And I didn't look. This was one of the only successful shots.}

 

We picked blueberries! I had never picked blueberries before and couldn't believe this field. It was dripping with berries.

 Graham LOVES blue berries so he helped himself!!

We went to the laundromat. Something I had never done before. I thought It was kind of fun! And, nice to getting everything washed at once. The boys thought it was fun too!

So far we are having a lot of fun experiencing new things and will continue to updated on our New York adventures!