Brinkley enjoying the snow

Well we getting the beginning of what is supposed to be another 8-12 inches of snow. Tonight Andy was out clearing snow and Brinkley loves to help. Here are some fun photos of her playing in our back yard. (To give you an idea how much snow we have Andy is standing on top or our deck which is a couple of feet off the ground.)

Snow here

We are getting dumped on. Before we went on our trip we got about 2 feet of snow in 2 days and since than it has not stopped. In the back of these photos you can see Andy's black truck or what is left of the truck. We are both on vacation right now and you can see what we have been spending our time doing.

Early Christmas

This past weekend was spent in an early Christmas trip to Seattle. Andy and I drove over on Friday on roads like the ones below. Every once in awhile they cleared enough to have one clear lane. As you can see even though the roads were not the best the weather was clear and made for beautiful photos.

Our first stop was to see Andy's grandparents (Martin and June Peterson). We had a great time catching up and really appreciated the lunch and her delicious Christmas tree cinnamon roll. We also were fortunate as Andy's mom and Mickie had come over this weekend.

We than headed over to see my brother's (Lucas) home. After that we ended that day at my other brother's (Jason) home in Bremerton. We wanted to make it over on Friday so that Andy could go to work with Jason who is an officer with the Department of Fish and Wildlife. They had a fun day with all of the snow.

We were very fortunate that all of my family was able to make it over for Christmas. Here is an immediate family photo of all of us. You can see my amazing sister in law that is due in February, so next years family photo will include one more.

Here are the roads we went back on.

We sure had a wonderful time with everyone. Thank you to all our family, we love you all so very much.

I am going to get in trouble for this =)

I was so excited for Andy about this...and he thought it was okay =). So here I am posting it and he is just going to shake his head..(love you). Andy was awarded this plaque and $250.00 (shared among those he cited) for a paper he wrote through work. It was published and for that he got the money and the very nice plaque. Congrats hon.

Ready for Christmas

Did I tell you I love decorating trees? We have a total of 5 in our house right now and I also decorated one for one of our friends. The bottom tree is our main tree. It took me a full day to do it all, but I sure had a great time and my wonderful husband brought me an egg nog latte (which I love) to help me through the day. I look forward to sharing the holidays with family and friends. To all of you that we will not see we hope you have a wonderful holiday. We hope you know that we will be thinking of you all on this special day and wishing we could all be together.

Welcome Snow

On our way back from Thanksgiving in Colville we saw our first snow of the year and yesterday (the 28th) we ended up with about and inch. As you can tell by this photo it is almost all melted.

Brinkley and her ball

Well the wonderful duck she loved so much is now in the trash as she tore out the squeaker. We now got her this hard ball that squeaks and it is now her new favorite.