Happy New Year!

We are already in a new year.  It's hard to believe how fast 2016 came and went.  We had so much happen in 2016, I'm excited to see what 2017 brings.  For New Year's Day this year, we invited Jon's mom for New Year's dinner.  We had a delicious dinner and I set my china out to make the table look really nice.  It was a new thing staying home for New Year's Day, but we enjoyed it.  It was nice to spend it with my little family.

We moved our table into the addition that was just fixed up, and where the table originally was we put in an island.  I found it on Amazon and fell in love with it.  It took about 3 hours to put together, but I LOVE it!!  It looks perfect where it is at and makes our kitchen feel huge.  I would like to get some bar stools, so I can utilize the back side of it.  But until then, it is perfect.

We have been getting a lot of snow this year.  There have been several school delays, and even 2 cancellations, which the kids have loved.  It is so fun to see so much snow.

Let it snow!

Tonight Jon finally got to use a Christmas gift he got last year. We have gotten so much snow, Jon was able to use his snowblower.  Boy did that make shoveling so much easier!!!  Jon had a really good time with it.

Snow Day!!

Winter has finally graced us with her presence, and over the last 2 days we have gotten about 18 inches of snow.  I have not seen this much snow in Yakima in a long time.  We got about 8-9 inches of snow last night.  Because we got so much snow, we actually had church cancelled.  The last time I remember church being cancelled was when I was a little girl.  It definitely doesn't happen very often.  It is so pretty.  I LOVE it!!!

This is what it looked like yesterday before it started snowing again.

This is what it was doing when I got home from an appointment last night.  Jon was out trying to shovel what he could.

This is how it looks this morning.  We are supposed to be getting more snow through Tuesday, so we will see how much more snow we will actually get.  It sure is pretty and will be fun to play in.  I'm sure Jon will want to get sleds out and go sledding sometime this week.  Have a great 6 more weeks of winter everybody!!!