Holly Holly Holly

She was just the perfect subject on this day, so I had to take advantage of it...She is the most well-behaved dog I think I've ever seen for such a young little puppy...WE love her to pieces!

Bow Swap

Here are some of the bows Maddie got from a recent Bow Swap I participated in. I think they are SUPA cute!

Growing every day!

I swear Holly has grown WAY too fast...She is not supposed to get very big, so I'm hoping she is maybe full grown now?!?!

Caught her again

She was watching something on my computer and I called her name and snapped before she could look away again...She is hard to capture when she has her mind on something else, so you have to be QUICK!

Thankyou for my dress up shoes

Maddie loves to play dress up with all her jewels, shoes and dresses, but today we were actually getting ready to go shopping and she put her dress up shoes on and really thought she could wear them even though there was 8 inches of snow on the ground...Nope! We still had to put tights and boots and snowsuit and the whole winter "thing". on...

Christmas Breakfast Feast

We enjoyed a beautiful breakfast feast at a little German village near where we live... It looked like a fabulous banquet and everything was SooooooooooooooO delicious...Here are my two little monkeys before we bundled up for the drive over there...

Christmas Eve Gift

Our sweet puppy Holly. She is a miniature Schnauzer. We picked her up on Christmas Eve. I look forward to watching her grow and enjoying her with our family.

Christmas Recital

Jake and Maddie looked quite nice after we got all ready for Jakes Christmas recital at preschool. I just had to snap a few pictures...

chocolate of course

Hot is better on these days getting below ZERO.....We all really enjoy our hot cocoa....

Our Beautiful Tree

So we finally finished decorating our tree and we looked forward to every evening when it was time to turn it on...

Sweet Memories.....

Was cleaning my studio and prepping for a photo shoot that I had later in the day and my little helpers said I could take their photo...I think its so sweet!

S-N-O-W!!!!!!!!

We finally got a lot of it! Maddie enjoyed trying to catch the snowflakes on her tongue as Jake was begging someone to pull him in the sled.....

The Spirit of Christmas fills our lives with Joy!

We enjoy so much pulling out all the decorations and our manger scene and talking about it as we set it up. Jake and Maddie helped decorate the tree alot more than past years and they really enjoyed it. It ended up being heavily decorated near the bottom of course, but I loved it...Made me smile each time I looked at it.

Over a year behind

...but I'm going to TRY to start blogging more...I'll go back to thanksgiving and try to catch up a little...So, here we go...We got a tiny bit of snow the day after thanksgiving and this was the snowman Jake built when he got back from his "vacation".