more pictures

These are pictures from last weekend. Pumpkin thought that he wanted to go outside, but realized that he didn't really want to be there once his little paws touched the snow.

Katherine and I made cookies on Saturday. It was hard work ;) but fun. Too bad there aren't any left.......

It is cold!

Well, I just wanted everyone to know that it is -10 degrees here today, with a wind chill around -25 degrees. So, you ask how cold that is? Well let's just say it can be painfully cold......bbrrrrrr.....
As with any negative there is a positive, there is a good reason to drink lots of hot chocolate:) with marshmallows of course.
I have some more pictures of this past weekend when we got more snow but forgot to bring them today, will have to post tomorrow.

It's Friday!

It's finally Friday! Yeah, yipppeeee!
Here are some pictures that Nelson took yesterday when he went out for a walk. Guess he had to get away from his Calculus for awhile, I don't blame him

Hope everyone has a great weekend! I am baking cookies with Katherine tomorrow, it's going to be great, lots and lots of cookies to eat.

More snow!

We had a beautiful snow fall last night and got a couple inches of snow. Nelson got up this morning and did all the shoveling, got my truck ready to go and even drove me to work, what a sweetie.
Sugar Bear and Cocomo thought that it would be fun to eat the snow and then they ran all around the backyard playing in it. I wonder if their feet get cold?
So, back to work.....is it Friday yet?

Another blustery day!

Well.....Ames got another snow fall last night. The snow coming down was really very pretty last night and with all the Christmas lights up in the neighborhood it really got me into the Christmas spirit.
So, I had my first experience this morning of not being able to stop at a traffic light because the roads were so icy. I really didn't know what I should do but made a quick decision to not worry about stopping and to keep going. All worked out, but boy my heart was pounding. I am thinking that I may start having Nelson drive me to work.....he offered!
I need to get to work......Hope everyone has a nice day.

Nelson wrestling with the girls. Sugar Bear decided to lay on me because there wasn't anymore space left for her, she is a little too heavy to be doing this.

I am up to no good!

Kacie poses in front of the tree.

Here is little Lily, at least she is sitting next to the tree and is not destroying it.

Thanksgiving pictures

They are all mine:), just kidding


















Here is Nelson outside cooking the turkey. It doesn't look very cold since we weren't wearing our jackets, but it was FREEZING!












Is it too much to ask to have a picture with all the girls? This one was hard to get.

















Here is Nelson carving the turkey. Our friend Paola joined us as well. We stuffed out faces :) The turkey was great....all the little crispies from the outside were yummy!

Monday November 21st

Dear all, the snow is all gone, it all melted, boo hoo.
Hope everyone has a safe Thanksgiving. As for us, we will be staying right here. Nelson is going to fry a turkey (yummmmyyyyyy) and we are going to relax. Sounds great!
Not much else going on. We had a really nice weekend, but of course it was too short.

A Cold Day in Iowa

Yesterday day was pretty cold.....let me tell ya. I really wasn't enjoying the snow I was walking accross campus at 7:30 in the morning. Nelson was so sweet and helped me get my truck ready to go in the morning.

The first Ames snowfall

Here we are (me and my friend Katherine) outside the vet school for the first snowfall of the year. Poor Katherine, I dragged her outside to get this picture. I think I was one of the few excited about seeing the snow.

New Blog

Dear Family and Friends,
We have decided to start a blog. So, that way you can see what we are up to and see pictures of our adventures.
So here goes.....

Alicia