More fun in the snow!

I've been meaning to post pictures of the amount of snow we have. I just feel like no one will believe me. So here goes...


The front of the house kind of gives you an idea...


The mailbox is now completely engulfed in snow. Notice it has a gangster lean to the left. Yeah, it got hit in the FIRST snowfall of the year. It has since been hit again, and we are hoping to keep enough snow around it for the remaining of the winter to keep it upright.


This is me and the lovely pooch, George standing next to the pile at the end of the driveway. Notice it is tall than me! Holy Moses!!! What snow we have!!!

Now, you might be tempted to think that we just made huge narrow piles around the driveway, but the snow covers the entire yard up to our living room window, a good 2 to 2-1/2 feet. I checked with Dan to make sure I wasn't exaggerating on those figures. Oh, he says it's closer to 2. STILL...that's a LOT of snow!

Luke and Lace - care to one up us? Do you have more snow?

Oh! Here is a super cool video of George. We thought it would be great if we could take a picture of him on top of the snow pile. Here is our attempt to get him up there.

Let it snow!

We have been working with George to play fetch in the snow. First we tried with his ball that we had been using all fall, but let's be honest, George is not a hunting dog. He couldn't find the ball in the snow. The frisbee seems to work great!




We have gotten an obscene amount of snow this weekend. It's about 24 inches so far, and it's still snowing...yay!

Dan and I decided to make Lepkugens (sp) for Dan's dad for Christmas. This is a traditional German cookie. It has molasses and candied fruit it in. We made a half batch which made about 15 dozen cookies. Yikes! Here are some photos from the event.

Dan stiring...

Me stirring...(not as successfully as Dan!)

Adding more flour (12 cups when we finished!)...

Yep, that looks just about right!

Ready to roll out and cut the cookies!

So we forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but just imagine that lump of dough rolled out in a round cookie shape. The cooked cookie doesn't look much different from the dough!

We have now celebrated Christmas with the elder Stauch's. We will see Dan's mom on Christmas and my parents on New Years.

Merry Christmas!