What a busy Christmas

We hope you all had a very wonderful holiday. We spent time in Colville, Vancouver, and here in Spokane. Thank you all for the wonderful gifts and cards. I think we most enjoyed the time we were able to spend with everyone over this Christmas. Here are a few of the photos from our outings.

Here is Kim, Hadley, and Ethan after they stamped each other with some stamps from Christmas (Notice how red Hadley's cheeks are). Andy and I got quite a laugh out of this, the mom's on the other hand did not find the same humor in it.

Brinkley stayed in with us while Andy and I opened gifts. We put all the ribbons on her.

Anna and Kim being funny girls.

My cute parents.

Beautiful Sarah.

Christmas Cookies

I have spent the last two days baking and I love it in my new kitchen. There is so much more room for doing this sort of thing. I make cookies for each of the hospitals I work at. This year I made sugar cookies, fudge, peppermints, cornflake wreaths, Irish cream brownies, and raspberry ribbons. Andy even helped a little when I needed help pouring and etc. What was great was that on Sunday as I was finishing it started to snow again. I hope they like it all.

Crazy Snow

We woke up Sunday morning to these lovely tracks in our GRASS...not to mention they were only feet from Andy's truck. Looks like someone got a little carried away in the new snow or simply misjudged the corner. Well I guess it gives me something to look forward to in the Spring.

We thought Oscar should join in the fun as we were clearing snow. We usually take him out once a Winter so this was it. We have gotten about 3 more inches since the first snow fall and this one was perfect snow for building snowmen and etc. Oscar enjoyed it for about 10 seconds and than off he ran to the house.

The Aftermath

Our first snowfall of the year. You can see Brinkley's footprints everywhere; she was enjoying the snow as I scooped it off the walk.

LET IT SNOW

We are getting our first snow storm of the year tonight. Here is a photo of the start to the snow and I will try to get one tomorrow to show the accumulation. Welcome to Winter in Spokane.

Ready for Christmas

I am READY. I love Christmas and as you can see the house is decorated. I actually did this last weekend...I know before Thanksgiving...but we were having company after Thanksgiving and I wanted the house to look nice. I had a great time doing it and Andy really likes it. Now...I should get on to that shopping thing; I am not finished with that. I thought I would share with those of you what the house looks like for Christmas since I know we will not all be together over the holidays.

Happy Thanksgiving

Family and Friends:
Andy and I just wanted to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving. We hope you are filled to the brim by the end of it all and that you have many wonderful moments with those you spend the day with.