It's a Marshmellow World in the Winter...

On Christmas Day, the snow fell in increasingly larger flakes! As you can tell from these pictures, I guess we had around 10" of fresh snow. It was a lovely day and a gorgeous snow. The temperatures since then have fallen drastically. Today it got up to about -10 from -25 this morning. I think it's supposed to be at least that cold tomorrow. As beautiful as this winter wonderland is, I'm pining for a Mexican riviera right now! How about a holiday cruise next year, fam? I think I'm up for now!

Under all this snow lies our woodpile. Huh. Fortunately, there is a tarp separating the wood from the snow, but Jackson's fort is all snowed in!

Christmas

Our Christmas Eve was pretty low-key. Pat worked and I relaxed and baked! I made these wafer cookies, an apple tart, and a turtle cheesecake for Christmas Day. When Pat got home from work, he went back to work in the garage, putting up insulation.

Christmas morning I got Pat up by bringing him some puppies in bed along with his coffee. I have to say that it didn't exactle bring him out of bed!

I proceeded to bring all the pups up for Christmas morning until we went to our friends. They were so sweet!

Rowdy even got a Christmas present!

My finished tart and cookies.

After spending my morning on the computer webcam with my family, we loaded up our goodies and went to our friend, Aaron and Stacey's house for dinner! Our new traditional Christmas Crab dinner with Aaron's amazing shrimp gumbo stuff was absolutely marvelous and stuffed us completely.

2 Weeks Old!

Their eyes are beginning to open! They are also beginning to enjoy a tummy rub now and again!

They are fun to bring in and play! True, they only sleep, but even that is pretty cute!

Too Cute!

Today

One Week Old!

Nature's Christmas Decorations
Rowdy's huntin' for wabbits!

Winter

This winter has been relatively mild until lately! We have been well below zero at night and just above during the day. Even though it is too cold to draw in a deep breath, it still has it's beauty. In fact, it has been total glitter! Literally breathtaking!

This morning, early, this moose made itself known to Rowdy! I'm glad they didn't make too close a connection.

On a different note, the eagle and snowy trees were from my trip to take Mom up to Anchorage.

Super Sweet!

Just a couple more pictures!

Puppies!

This is Bella yesterday...uncomfortable, huh?!

Here's our momma today! She had 9 puppies: 4 black, 3 yellow, and 2 chocolate! I haven't gotten a final tally on girls/boys. Maybe tomorrow!

Thanksgiving Flashback

Thanksgiving Day brought us several guests! We had a wonderful time with a delicious dinner followed by a rousing round of shooting! For a really fun laugh, check out "Something to Blog About" for a double take!

Mom's week here was full of walks with the dogs through the snow laden trees as well as making fudge, cheesecake, cookies, and more! I then solicited her to take a few pictures of us and this was the best one!

Thanks, Mom!