We Wish You A Merry Christmas...

And hope that you had a Wonderful Christmas Day with your family and friends.

We sure did!
As I mentioned earlier, we ended up cancelling our Christmas Eve Dinner because of the drizzle and freezing rain. Well, something that sealed the deal that we made the right decision, a little after 6 pm on Christmas Eve, just as we were wrapping Christmas gifts, the power went out.
So, we enjoyed the better part of Christmas Eve by candlelight.

Yep, there's a first time for everything - and this year it was wrapping gifts by firelight & candlelight. Something about candlelight that seems to make everything a bit more magical!

Glen and I exchanged gifts Christmas morning - We'll be taking a cooking class at a neat new store up the street from where we live this winter. We're both looking forward to a neat new meal. We stopped at Glen's mom & dad's to celebrate with them and Glen's brother Rick who came into town from Indy yesterday morning. From there we went to my mom & dad's for dinner with them, my cousin Eric, John and my Great Aunt and Uncle. Lastly we stopped at Glen's Uncle Stash & Aunt Mary's house to do a bit of 'entire' family celebrating.
We were so spoiled by our families and each other - so blessed that we were able to share the holiday with our family and friends.
We did both have to laugh when we got home about 1:20 this morning. Each year the 'kids' get a cardboard picking post that includes CATNIP. This year was no different, and we both joked before leaving home yesterday morning that this year's box would need to be used with adult supervision only. But we gave the kids the benefit of the doubt, but knew ultimately what the outcome would be.....a picking post separated from the box it was supposed to be in and Catnip all over the carpet. You guessed it - we came home to two VERY HAPPY kitties and living room carpet that had been showered with catnip. Even this morning, they're both STILL rubbing & rolling all over the carpet.

We hope that you all enjoyed your holiday like we did.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and all the blessings & prosperity of the New Year!
Min & Glen

And the Snow keeps coming......

Wow, I can't remember the last time we've had THIS MUCH SNOW!!!
This was a photo from Sunday . . . . . . . . .
And it started snowing again today about 10 am. We're due for 8-12 inches between tonight and tomorrow. By the time all is said and done, that will be about 2 1/2 feet of snow in less than a week. Holy WOW!
The Christmas shopping is just about wrapped up and we've decided to call off our annual Christmas Eve Dinner because of the weather.
We're hoping that everyone can get into town and get together on Christmas Day!
I'm sure Santa is LOVIN' this this weather!!!
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday!
Stay turned for more snow photos and a few Christmas photos too.
Min & Glen

HOLY SNOW BATMAN!!

This is what we were looking at at 9:26 this morning - can you say HOLY SNOW?! Looks like we're going to have a white Christmas this year!!

I think we ended up with about a foot of snow. We'll take more photos tomorrow - this was NOTHING compared to what we're seeing out on the deck now (and what we shoveled out of the front walks!)

More on the way tomorrow night/Sunday.

Let it Snow!

Let it Snow!

Let it Snow!

Hope you are all safe, sound and tucked in a warm place tonight!

Min & Glen

Happy Birthday!

To my Favorite Cuz' Eric!!

Wishing you A Fantabulous Birthday!!

And here's a birthday beverage, for ya too - you can use it as a fire extinguisher in case you can't blow out all those candles (Just kidding :o)!

Love Min & Glen

What a lovely weekend

We had this weekend! We always look forward to getting together with family and friends. This weekend was no exception!

Today marked our fourth annual holiday cookie exchange. Today was a perfect day for a holiday gathering other than it was 18 degrees....BRRRRR! The kitchen smelled holiday yummy-it was filled with the smells of a yummy brunch. We enjoyed a Broccoli Swiss Quiche, French Toast Casserole, a fantastic veggie salad that my mom makes and chicken salad on croissants. No photos of those - and I had the best intentions of taking photos of the brunch display......BUT, on to the IMPORTANT part of the cookie exchange.....Wow, talk about a wide variety of cookies to choose from! YUMM-O is all I can say!

Thanks to my Mom, Mrs. M, Amy, Sue, Mrs. Dettloff and Debbie for coming and enjoying a nice holiday afternoon! Oh, and we can't forget Colin!

Dad came and kept Glen company today too!

And now for a photo - How can you NOT want one or two of these??

And I have to show you the cutest thing table runner my mom made for Glen and I - It's four little gingerbread people. My mom creates some of the neatest projects! She is super woman! Isn't it adorable?! She embridered 'The Kwiatkowski's'. This will spend time on our dinner table well into the new year!

We hope you all had a wonderful weekend, stayed bundled up after the snow and cold that had blown in.

Keep warm!

Min & Glen

Happy December!

Wow, can you believe that the Holiday season moving full steam ahead??

I can hardly believe that Christmas is only 24 days away!! Where has the year gone?

We hope you had a great Thanksgiving and were able to spend time with family and friends! We had a wonderful Turkey Day After Dinner with our folks, Glen's brother Rick and cousins Eric & John. Glen and Rick deep fried another fantastic turkey and we had a boatload of other yummy items to go with it.

I always say I'm going to take more photos, but of course, as usual it didn't happen. This particular Turkey Day, the only time the camera came out was when my dad asked us to pass the butter and I passed it to my cousin Eric and it ended up in the middle of his plate in his mashed potatoes. Always a good laugh (and sport too!!!)

We were also able to get our Christmas decorations up over the long weekend, with the exception of Our Tree which I think we'll do this week.

Here's a photo of Our Christmas Village. Photos of the outside lights to come now that we've got a bit of snow!

I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season. I promise not to be such a blog slacker. Hopefully I can take a few photos of the snow we got yesterday and today and post tomorrow. It looks beautiful!

Happy Holidays!

Min & Glen