Christmas In Farrr North Idaho

 This wreath was a gift and came from The Wreath Farm.

 Hootie in his Christmas sweater he got from Jessica and David. 

Oh, and his snowman headband. He he.

 This is the manger from when I was a little kid in Pennsylvania.
 Joyeux Noël, Emmanuel!  That means Merry Christmas, God With Us!

 Patrick played ball with the dogs after our first big snow this week.

 This measurement was taken after we had shoveled the deck a few times!

Patrick has a hat that matches mine. They were gifts from Jessica & David.

 Our deck.

 The river.

 Baby Rocket Dog on our night time walk.

The cabin from a distance.

 These 2 photos are of Patrick clearing the snow off of our deck roof.

There were areas that had 4 feet of snow!

 He had a rope around his waist in case he started to fall.  

That didn't happen, thank goodness.

I want to wish all my friends in the blogisphere a 

Very Blessed Christmas!!

lots of love,

Cassie

Shadow Shot Sunday # 188 ~ Merry Christmas to All

Merry Christmas to all the Shadow Shooters and our guests!  I thought I'd show you around our condo living room while I was awaiting the arrival of our daughter and SIL from the airport (at 130am!).  I had the Christmas music playing and all the candles and trees lit.  No flash was used on these shots, so they are a bit out of focus. 
If you would like to see more Shadow Shots, our hostess, Gemma, can be found HERE.  Please come join in the fun.  Again, Merry Christmas to all!!
love,
Cassie

Merry Christmas Day!

Patrick drove me down to the visitors center to post this. He's out walking Hootie now while I try to get this done with Baby Rocket Dog breathing down my neck! We had a lovely Christmas. Went to 11pm Christmas Eve service with our friend Marilyn, and got home around 1230a.m."ish". The service was different from any candlelight services I have ever attended. Our pastor is a real evangelist and explained why we all need a saviour and why God had to send His only Son. Quite powerful. Four people asked to have Christ as their Lord and Saviour. Wow!! I do wish we had sung a few more Christmas carols though. We made up for it at home though, as I've played Christmas cd's for the past 2 weeks.

Had a leisurely brunch of (blog friend Carolyn's) Savory Incredible Pie, bagels and our homemade huckleberry jam. Yum. After I cleaned up the dishes I lite the final candle on our Advent wreath and Patrick read from God's Word. I'm glad I took some photos of him reading. Doesn't he look handsome?

After that, we played a lo00nnng game of Scrabble and Patrick creamed me. 229 to ... not even gonna tell you my score. The fire roared and I'm thinking we better head back home now to get warmed up again. It's about 20 degrees F. right now.

Merry Christmas to all my friends, old and new. Jesus is the reason for the season. What an awesome God we have!!

love, Cassie

A to Z Mondays ~ The Letter C

Cat. Cat in Hat. (middle photo)

Cool Christmas Cats. Cats in Hats.

You can click on the photo to enlarge. The Cat Hatter's email and phone# can then be seen.

Go see Jen for more A to Z blogs!

Have a great Christmas week. Relax a bit each day and maybe take a little nap. Don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers…even if they’re frozen! Best of all, remember why God sent His Son to Earth. Our perfect Saviour for our imperfect selves. Amazing!!

much love, Cassie

PS-Chuck, my 11 year old cat is no longer with us, but I still enjoy looking at his photos. Hope you do too. (He was a miserable fellow, but I loved him.)

More Pictures From Christmas Time

This little penguin pot scrubber was supposed to be part of a gift for my buddy Maria, but one of the poachers(aka dogs) stole it and chewed it a bit, so I had to keep it myself.

Baby Rocket Dog chewing her stocking gift from Auntie Maria. 4 squeekers ripped out of 4 toys in 10 minutes! Hootie never got to make one squeek. :>(

Jessica & David seeing what Santa left in their stockings.

We ladies thought the guys looked so funny in these odd clothing combinations & morning hair that they were worthy of a Kodak moment. Does David have a snow angel popping from his head?

The gifts under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning.

David entertaining the dogs with his alpaca socks. Lucky they didn't chew them up later on!! See the pooches festive neck scarves? I made them from table clothe scraps.

A tired Hootie and a tired Jessica while playing a fun game. Can't remember the name, but this disk gives you a word, then you have to give clues to your partner within a short amount of time before a buzzer goes off. Patrick and I were the big winners that night.

David & Patrick shoveling with a little help from the dogs.

I took this pic of Jessica from the outside of the bay window. The stripes are from my apron.

Baby Rocket Dog loves to romp in the snow. Here she is after "helping" Pat & David.

I caught Jessica getting ready to go skiing. We got her the new long john top for Christmas.

This is Jessica and David before they headed out to Schweitzer Mountain to go skiing for the day. Ahhh, young love. They celebrated their 6th anniversary in August.

Let It Snow

Here are a few more shots of my decorations. I LOVE my Hallmark Tappers (in video). Each morning and sometimes during the day I press a button & tap with them. I bet Daisy (of Dancing With Daisy) would also love these little guys. Finally got some good snow! It is 8 below at the cabin right now. Brrrrrrr. Snowed around 15inches yesterday. You can see the difference in a few hours by the amount of snow gathered on the owls head. It's getting really cold out here in the Jeep right now, so I'm gonna sign off. Blessings to all who read this. love, Cassie