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.

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Patrick sanitizing the sink after cutting up the Montana free-range turkey for in the crockpot.

Jessica in the bay window making a feather hair ornament. Hootie had to jump up to help her.

Snowman bell that my cousin Ivy sent me...Minus his nose.

Snowman's (found) nose. This is a good story that I'll tell you all after I get to Phoenix.

Snowman with his nose reattached.

The owl on our deck actually had his original pile of snow knocked off. This was a new pile! We got over 5 feet of snow before we left on Jan.2nd. Patrick and David stayed busy shoveling snow. We had to have our (800ft) driveway plowed 5 times and it could have been done more, but we were paying someone to do it & he was a busy man!! Pat can hardly wait to be up here full time so he can get his own little snowplow. Man toys ya know. ;<)

Jessica & Patrick getting the dogs ready for snowshoeing with Jess & David.

Jessie said the dogs got used to wearing their booties once they got into the deep snow. Jessica & David with the dogs leaving for their snowshoe adventure.