a few snowflakes...

Our first big storm of the season. I always find it exciting when a lot of snow is coming our way! Since the local forecasters recommended staying off the road if possible, we took their advice and called out of work. Everyone loves a Snow Day!!! The snow fell from about dawn to dusk...

I went outside around mid afternoon to check out how much snow we had so far.
Then it was back to my activity of the day... baking goodies.
the snow continued....

After dinner we went out to clean up the driveway. Our yardstick in the snow read about 15.5 - 16" - a lot more than the 9-11 inches they were predicting for us!
Hooray for snow days!

Home for the holidays

Just a few family photos from Christmas... since holidays are all about the people you care about most.
Mel's family
Mel's mom's Aunt Dot joined us this year for Christmas, which was a real treat. Even in her nineties she's still a spitfire! And when you're that old you don't really need too much, so she got the best gifts of all of us - loads of chocolate!!
Mel and her cousins
Brian's memorable gift from Stacy and Eric.... the SNL "D" in a Box skit lives on! Nice touch with the hole in the box, Stacy.

Brian's family. Sweet reindeer sweater Scott!

Christmas Morning

Here's how we started our Christmas morning
Santa came!!!
And he brought treats!


My big gift from Brian
was a wall shelf for the kitchen (which will have hooks] that Brian made himself!