January 2012 Scrapbook page

I know I'm a little late with my January Scrapbook page.  I actually had my two page spread done weeks ago, I just didn't get it blogged.  We had a fairly busy & fun January.  

This is the sketch I followed.  It was offered by Shawn at 'Nuts about Sketches' back in early November for her Week #186 challenge.  Even though the challenge was long over, I love the sketch and used it anyway..

 There was a fair amount of snow in our area.  During our snow, we were visited by a huge flock of  Robins.       They were beautiful. We went to a Pirate's Ball, met a lot of new friends & had a blast.

 We drove up to Mt. Rainier on New Year's Day & spent the day geocaching, partly in the snow. A little later in the month reached our #2100 Geocache. 

I've submitted this layout to the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks -- Challenge #79 - 'Anything but a Card'

Crafty Anne's Challenge Blog -- Challenge #60 - 'Anything but a Card'

Paper Crafting Journey -- Challenge #4 - 'Anything Made with Paper'

The Crazy Challenge  -- Challenge #108 - 'Anything Goes'

Party Time Tuesday -- Challenge #57 - 'Anything Goes'

That Craft Place -- 'Anything Goes Challenge'

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2100 Geocaches

Don & I reached #2100 while taking a day trip to Mt. Rainier on January 14th., 2012.  We spent most of the day driving in the snow.  It was beautiful. We found 27 caches that day, including one earth cache.  We turned loose four travel bugs and picked up another one.  It was totally a fun & relaxing day.

Winter Robins

This afternoon the coolest thing happened.  I was sitting at my desk which sits if front of a large window that looks out into our front yard..  A Robin flew across the yard and into a large Holly tree beside our window.  Along came a couple more Robins......and more .....and more.  Within a minute or two every tree in our yard and our neighbors was filled with Robins. 

They seem to especially like the holly.  Most of the trees around our yard are bare in the winter.  The holly is evergreen giving them thick stiff leaves to hide in.

In sure there was over one hundred birds in our yard. Some of the birds were flying back & forth between these trees and the holly.

The holly alone was loaded.

I've never seen so many Robins at one time

I haven't ventured outside for two full days because it was snowing & then turned icy & cold.  When there flock sholwed up, I couldn't resist grabbing the camera to get a few shots. 

They're so beautiful.

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Cache, Willie, Muggle & Abigail

My cats were completely mesmerized by all the birds.

I'm anxious to see if they're still here in the morning or if they just stopped for the night and will moved on.

Update:

This morning all the Robins were still here. I started seeing them as soon as there was daylight. They hung around all morning entertaining our cats. About 11:00 am, they evidently decided they had somewhere else to be & left. Now there is not one Robin to be seen. They were fun little visitors.

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