Yesterday and last night we got our first real snow storm of the year (7 inches so far...). This morning we woke up to icicles hanging from the roof...



















...and icicles in our bedroom! (which addy later ate).












The dogs and I romping in the snow. (Meghan says she has already spent 90% of her life in the snow and has no desire to partake).












Looking down our street...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Flagstaff. (all we do here is drink mimosas and smoke candy cigarettes).














Our lovely little tree.


















Christmas morning we took the dogs on a hike to a canyon outside of town. It was pretty icy once we got down into the canyon and we almost slid to our deaths (sorta) several times.


















Rose has gone to the bathroom and I have taken over the blog - the rocks in this picture are crazy. It looked like a dinosaur had laid a bunch of eggs all over the side of the hill. This is also a view of the canyon we hiked down into and a popular climbing spot for Flagstaffers (?).






Fisher and Ada mae blazing the canyon trail.

This is my family. I will not comment on whether we are happier then we look.

Kelly(8) in the front
Will(19), Jack(13), Scott(21).










Christmas is still fun because Kelly still believes - it gets the rest of us out of bed anyways.





































Jack receiving a gigantic container of M&M's, Kelly's pink horse that found its way into practically every picture I took.

We went back to North Carolina for Thanksgiving with the Wilson family in Black Mountain - even though it was late winter, everything seemed so green....

A bunch of us went with Granddaddy to visit the community garden where he spends much of his time year round.

Here he shows Uncle Peter, Lauren, Emily and Ruby how the hoop beds keep the greens warm through the winter.





More hoop bed greens....


















A weeding demonstration...















And then we went and climbed Look Out Mtn.