Burrrrr Willies!

It's been pretty darn cold here for the last week or so. Mother Nature blessed us with a beautiful white Christmas! The following day Jen and PD left for six days to be with his mom who had recently lost her husband (PD's step-dad). Ken and I were put in charge of the household, kids, and animals. (KL does a thorough job of caring for the animals, so no worries there.) Today is "Day Two" and we're all doing fine. The snow has pretty much melted, at least there is not enough to "play" in the snow, so to speak. So we've been lucky to have the new games the kids got for Christmas to pass some of the time. They are good kids, and it's been a pleasure caring for them.

Christmas morning . . . it started to snow.

It didn't take long for us to realize it wasn't going to stop. We probably got a few inches only, but it was enough to turn everything in sight a beautiful twinkling white!

My horse-loving KL sorting out the pieces to a puzzle she got for Christmas.

With a little help from her brother and me! Ta-Dah!

Giving the thumbs-up for the brownies she just took from the oven.

This morning she came in looking like this . . . it made me giggle a bit seeing this "city-turned-country" girl coming in from feeding the animals and collecting a couple of eggs. This afternoon Ken went out and found seven more!

Taffy (a.k.a. Kee-Kee) and Murray studying the weather and deciding it was too cold for them, even though the sun was out.

This afternoon KL, CD and I learned how to play another Christmas-gift game, LIFE (Indiana Jones style) . . . CD gave up and KL won by a mile! Our dinner has been cooking in the crock pot all day and now it's time to eat!

Life is good!