Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas Night

We spent the evening at Matt's parents with his Aunt Suzi and Uncle Jimmy from Vancouver and cousin Karyn and boyfriend Roger from Bellingham. Matt got the game "Don't forget the Lyrics" so here we all are playing it.



We got Roger and Donna new camping chairs for Christmas as theirs were really old and the last time we went camping with them they both fell over in their chairs. Hopefully these new chairs will resolve that problem.
Aaron & Karyn


Christmas Morning

Before the boys woke up everything was pretty peaceful.

Then it was time to open presents.

What else do you get them when you have 4 feet of snow outside - A snowball blaster;
I got new snowshoes and poles as I was using Aaron's snowshoes (from before he wore a size 17 shoe) and using my cross country ski poles. Matt got him a pair also so we can go together. I usually walk my dogs every morning around the property but there has been so much snow it has been hard to so luckily we had the snow shoes.
Exchanging gifts.
Sparky patiently waiting to go outside.
Matt got a new carrhart coat
Hmmm....and these I bought for both boys but maybe was not such a good idea, blow up boxing gloves.
And Jasper finally got to open his stocking, didn't take him long to figure out how to open packages.
Sparky, he's an old pro at opening packages. That's why we now have the stockings. We use to wrap his presents and put them under the tree with everyone elses until he started unwrapping them when ever he felt like it.



Christmas Eve

All the stockings were hung by the chimney with care - as Jasper whined and whined to have his early. This was Jasper's first Christmas so I am not sure how he knew there was stuff up there for him. He tried his best to get it early but I didn't give in, no matter how cute he tried to look.

Dinner was at Matt's parents as we had cousin Karyn Cowdrey and her boy-friend over from Bellingham. We had shrimp, scallops, king crab, oysters, pasta and bread - it was a feast.
Karyn had steak as she is not a seafood fan - too bad for her.
Grampy relaxing, looks like Sparky and Jasper decided too also.
Just hanging out with the humans.


Wednesday, December 24, 2008

First snowmobiling of the season

Matt and the boys decided to go snowmobiling on Christmas Eve, I was at work.
They met a moose along the way.
The powder was very deep.



Sunday, December 21, 2008

Snow Day

The dogs were getting a bit of cabin fever so we went out for a snowshoe around the property.



Saturday, December 20, 2008

Castle Christmas pets