Snowflakes and holiday baking

It snowed another 5.5 inches last night.

David was called in to work at 6am for all the folks who didn't make it in.

He had a very interesting commute.

Here's Alex on one of the inclines in our back yard.
And here he is at the bottom of the incline.
Anyone want to sit on our deck chairand have a BBQ.
(That white cushion is pure snow!!)
My garden bench is covered.

Barkley had a tough time even finding his tennis ball today.

And we are supposed to get even more snow overnight and into tomorrow!

So, we stayed inside and baked.

It took awhile using the toaster oven.

We made Swedish buns and crispy gingerbread cookies

for our Scandinavian holiday celebration today.

We had a smorgasbord with smoked salmon, crispbread crackers, and cucumbers for lunch, and for dinner, we had Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes (CSA), peas (CSA), berry jam (our homemade), with our baked cookies for dessert.

Yesterday, we ventured out into the elements and finished up our holiday shopping. We hit the calm between the weather storms, but hit a full force hurricane of shoppers at the mall. Everyone had the same idea after being couped up for a few days. The lines were incredible!!! Just as we left the mall, it began to snow again and hasn't stopped much since.