Merry Christmas to Everyone

Special for Daddy

 Felicity got to frost her own little pan of cookies this year. 

She started out pretty good. 

 Then the cookies turned into cookies for Daddy only....

 Who else would eat these cookies?

 Now to taste the green.

 Finally the sprinkles...

Merry Christmas!

The Best Part of Frosting Cookies

Licking the bowl, of course.

Visiting Santa

Deep Freeze

That's a minus in front of that 20.9!

The Blizzard of 2010

 What a crazy past three days we have had. Our adventure started early Thursday morning. Three other girls and I took off for what what supposed to be a fun weekend of shopping. We left home around 9 a.m. The 2 1/2 hour ride was pretty uneventful. When we got to our destination we shopped for a few hours, had a wonderful supper, then finally checked into our hotel.

By this time our phones were ringing. "A blizzard is going to hit all of Wisconsin and we had better get home!"

Nooooooooooooooo. We didn't want toooooooo.  (that's my whining voice)

We got up Friday morning and headed straight to the mall. All day we were trying to make up our minds whether we should stay or leave. If we stayed we would probably have to stay until Monday because the blizzard wasn't stopping until Sunday afternoon and it would take some time for the roads to get cleared.

We decided to stay the day on Friday and leave early Saturday morning and hopefully beat the worst of the storm.

We were all up by 5 a.m. and finally hit the road a little after 6. What normally takes 2 1/2 hours took us 4. It was a long nail-biting four hours.

Once I was home there was no way I was going to leave my warm cozy house. We spent the rest of Saturday totally snowbound inside.

 This is the sunrise on Sunday morning. It was pretty..........looking at it from INSIDE the house. We ended up getting 20 inches of snow! The wind was still blowing super hard and the temps were frigid.

 Our front lawn looked like waves of snow from all the blowing and drifting. Our driveway is under there somewhere.

 

  I probably could have gotten better pictures if I would have went outside to take some. But that surely wasn't going to happen.

 You can't really tell on this picture but that snowbank towards the right is about 8 feet tall and right outside our garage door. We weren't going ANYWHERE.

 Later in the afternoon neighbor Bob came to our rescue. This is the kind of snowblower we use here in Wisconsin. We don't mess around.

Brian opened the garage door to get some pictures from this angle. 

 

At the end of the day.............a beautiful sunset.

This morning the sun is shining and it looks beautiful out. But it is very deceiving.......it is -5 degrees!

Hanging Out in the Bumbo

...at two months old...