Hope y'all had an awesome christmas!!

Our Christmas was great!! It is usually hard to be away from those we love as it was this year also but this year was really really nice. Being just the two of us was kind of nice:) Eric worked a part day on Christmas Eve and then we went up to Aspen. We walked around and seen all the Christmas decor and celebrities in town for the holiday:) Kind of fun to see them just out shopping. But the poor people had to deal with all the rude paparazzi. But still fun to see them out in an everyday setting. Then it got dark and my parents had sent us $50.00 to do something fun for Christmas so we took a carriage ride around aspen to look at all the Christmas lights. It was so romantic and wonderful. An AWESOME memory for this Christmas Eve!!! I will never forget that:)

Christmas we spent most of the day cooking the turkey and then the rest of the meal. We played some games and then shared dinner with an old neighbor that stopped in to say merry Christmas. He didn't have anywhere he was going and he is alone so it was nice to have him stay for a Christmas dinner and of course to watch the yearly movie "A Christmas Story":) Just a perfect Colorado Christmas:)

Tomorrow Eric will have his surgery so I am just taking a break to write this from cleaning the house and preparing for that. We will be taking it easy this New Years eve weekend since he will still be not 100%. May your new years eve weekend be amazing and may the New Year bring everyone many blessings and love and great memories!!!!

Christmas cards are done!

So It was time again for our annual Christmas card photos! We decided this year to only try and wrestle the dogs with us and then do it outside. We took a nice little drive just up from us a ways and found just a little snow. And then the fun begins with 3 dogs that want to run, sniff and well you know water every plant that exists in the national forest. You will see a little of the fun in the next pics:)

Doesn't He look so excited. He is saying ya right this is going to be an epic fail:)

Next comes the bribery:) Start with that and see if it works!!

Got at least one good picture with him and the boys!! That was after we put the leashes on and Eric got to hold them:)

Then there is the mom goes, mom runs back almost falls getting in her spot and they get up to see what going on! Over and over again!

Why is my arm like that you say? Well we found the secret to making them look, just had to time it right.....

Prity good right! You hit the timer, hit the button, run, squat down count to two and then you throw their treat in front of the camera right before the flash goes off! And Vooohallah!!:)


Even Target got into it. Wanting to say Meowy Christmas:)

And Tonka of course!!!

I couldn't figure out how to get the finished card on here:( I did it through walmart and it wouldn't let me save the image to my computer. I don't have a scanner either. But it turned out prity well. It actually held 6 pics so we have the one of all of us in the snow, one of each of the cats, one of the horses wearing Christmas hats, one of me and Eric in our winter hats and one of some Colorado mountains. It was fun and great memories we can share.!