Wednesday, January 18, 2012

It's Winter time finally! Snow days!

We finally got some snow this year! We were on a storm watch for 3 days but today it finally hit us...and of course when it snows everything closes down in Seattle.We woke up to over 9 1/2 inches of snow this morning. We slept in alittle and Josh made us a yummy breakfast. Then we decided to try our hand at dehyrating some fruit; all we have ever tried was jerky. It turned out great! The apples with cinnamon filled the house with the most amazing aroma throughout the whole day. This year the snow was so perfect for building a snowman we just could'nt resisit. We made a snow-woman and we think she turned out pretty darn good.

Peanut has been having so much fun in the snow lately, he prances through it and it's the cutest thing. He's almost 6 months now and almost 10lbs, I can't believe it...almost full grown. He has been such a good dog. He's been interesting with the cats and we are still unsure of how they will get along long term. Peanut has always loved chasing them but lately he has started to playfully bite them (since he's still teething) and just lay on top of them until they somehow get away. There relationship is interesting to say the least. We will see.

To catch up, we had a great christmas and new year! We loved spending time with Brittany and the kids while they were here right before christmas. Brittany was practically 9months prego at the time and has since given birth to our newest nephew Conner! We can't wait to meet him! We layed low this christmas and new year just enjoying time with our family alot and on new years getting together with some friends to play games and bring in the new year. The past year Josh has been getting more and more into boxing, training with a friend and co-league who used to be semi-pro. So his gifts consisted mainly of boxing gear. My parents splurged and got us an awesome, beautiful, will last forever, made in the USA vacumn a RICCOR...it. is. AWESOME! who knew I would get excited to get a vacumn ever in my life. Well it happened. Josh also gave me the most plush, soft bath robe in the world. This is not any ordinary robe because full body towel robes are literally next to impossible to find and I have been needing one forever! So..thanks babe!











All and all... the Ryen life is good. Happy new year!