Day 365 Goodbye 2010!

Yea, I made it, 365 days of photos! It's a snowy world out today. We got a bit more snow during the day, but not much, just enough to put a light coating on what was there. I tried measuring, but with all the wind drifting the snow, it's impossible to tell how much we got. I measured from nothing to almost 16 inches! It's a cold world! We stayed home today, John worked a bit in the shop, but said it was too cold and spent most of the day inside.

Snow!

It was snowing when we got up this morning! Guess the 100% prediction was right for once. It's blizzard conditions right now, snow is blowing sideways and it's COLD out! I took this shot in between gusts.

Goodby Jessie

We packed up all Jessie's luggage and took her to St. Johns this morning to meet her Mom. Snow is predicted and we wanted her safely home before it hit!

We went to Mom's first so John could fix her stove and I could show her how to use the ego drive I gave her for Christmas. I got the photos all backed up for her while John fixed her stove and Jessie and John took down her tree.

Trish brought her cross country ski's down and left them at Mom's for Jessie. She had fun trying them on and "skiing" on the lawn.

It's sure quiet at our house this evening, this is the part I hate the most about holidays, when everyone is gone and the house is way too quiet!

Bye Trish and Sam

The skies were cloudy today and it looked like snow was falling on the hills around us. Trish and Sam decided to head out this morning hoping to miss the storm predicted for tomorrow. We're sad, we were looking forward to playing more wii with them tonight and having a birthday party to celebrate Mom's upcoming birthday.

John and Jessie painted together this morning. I love Jessie's painting, it's so colorful and fun! She painted a clown.

While John started a new sculpture, Jessie and I played games and watched another of her Christmas movies, Ice Age. It was a sad movie, but good.

A day of visiting

I witnessed something I have never seen this morning, Misty mad at Santana and paying him back for being mean to her! Go Misty! He's always biting her and I guess she got tired of it!

Sam, Trish, Carleen and Mom came up to visit today. We all met at Subway for lunch, then came here for a visit. Jessie had fun playing with Ani.

Trish and Sam stayed after Mom and Carleen left and we had fun playing wii games. I'm loving that we have everyone's wiimii in our games now, it will be fun to see them through the year as we play.

The Day After

Charles and Nikki this morning just before they left about 10:30. I always hate to see them leave! Our visit was way too short!

Love this shot of the two cousins. They are so cute together!


Bye . . .

Jessie painted the boat bank she gave her Pa for Christmas.

And this evening she took us out to dinner at McDonald's using the card she got for Christmas. What a sweet girl to share with us!

Christmas Day

We had gorgeous weather today. Charles and Nikki came up and spent Christmas with us and Andy, Susan and the kids came over and spent some time with us, it was a good day!

Nikki loves the guitar she got! It was a surprise, she didn't know she was getting it.

I got a wii! Now I can exercise and get Netflix on the TV!

Sure glad Charles and Nikki were here to get the wii all hooked up for me!!

Christmas leftovers, all the packaging and pretty paper, kind of sad to see it all wadded up.

Andy's family

It's been a while since we got a picture of the whole family!

Christmas Eve

Charles, John and Nikki played darts this morning . . .

Then we opened early gifts . . .

and went to St. Johns to visit family.

We got snow!

It was cloudy and raining when we got up this morning, then it turned to snow. We didn't get much, just a light skiff, then it quit and as soon as the sun came up, it chased the clouds away and the sky mostly cleared up.

Charles and Nikki got here shortly after noon and the guys were soon working on a project. It was fun to see them working together again!

Here's what we did with the shavings they made.

Doctor Visit

John got casted for orthotics this morning. It was like old times to watch Dr. Hall casting his feet! Dr. Eddie got him interested in becoming a foot doctor and he took over his practice, so he knows him well.

Decorations on one of my trees.

Cloudy and colder today! We didn't walk again, it was just too cold! Now that I have started walking outside, I don't want to use the treadmill. When I was walking on it, I didn't want to walk outside. Go figure, LOL.

On the Road

We went to Globe today to deliver a sculpture. We left early and watched the sun come up on the way. It was beautiful but unfortunately, it was on the wrong side of the vehicle and I couldn't get a good shot.

Salt River Canyon, beautiful, but not my favorite part of the road!

Rest stop at Timber Camp. The horse is along just for the ride, John wanted to make sure his base would travel without breaking.

Storm Clouds

Big Bird is all dressed up for Christmas.

We had a gorgeous dawn this morning, the sky was full of clouds, looks like a storm is on the way! I got one shot early on and forgot to go back out to get more ;-(

Photo Shoot

Jessie and had fun with cameras today. I wanted to take some pictures of her, so she willingly posed for me in front of the trees and I got some cute pictures. Then she wanted to take some of me, so I posed for her, and had her take some of John and I together. We got some just for fun shots of things like a sleeping Pa's feet, our feet, Jessie and Pa's feet, and just had fun.