my very lovely cousin:

yay!!! Everyone is so glad to have her home for Christmas, and today I got to steal her for a quick photoshoot  :)   And it was COLD!  But the pictures turned out great, and that makes it all worth it.  Mostly. The cookies Grandma gave us after we came inside made up for the rest.
Anyway- here are the pictures:

And here are the wonderful cookies we had after we came back inside :)

Shoveling the snow...sort of.

Lovely Winter Weather

I wanted to take some pictures this afternoon, and I had no sibling subject readily available.  So, I stole two ornaments off the Christmas tree, and headed outside to take these:

This is me, in my mom's coat.  Actually, I had on my mom's coat over my bathrobe and some pajama's with some cowboy boots.  And no gloves- so after a few minutes I couldn't feel my fingers.

Here's Toby, loving his bear.

 I think Toby makes some of the most pitiful expressions in canine world:

all bundled up :)

Jonathan and I got all bundled up to go for a walk today...

...and then we got cold and went back inside :)