Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

From our family to yours, we wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous year!

The past two weeks almost seem like a blur!  The last 3 days of school before break were snow days so our Christmas break activities started early.  Our daughter turned 2 on December 23rd and this started the party wagon.  My house just now seems to be back to normal!  We had a wonderful Christmas with my side of the family and we celebrated New Years by playing games with my parents and our kids and going to bed early!  Today is prep day.  They boys go back to school tomorrow (if the storm we are getting doesn't cause another snow day!) and my husband goes back to work after taking a week off.  Calisee and I will have a quiet house, except for some very talkative puppies!

The Holmes Family- Christmas 2016

 Now: PUPPY PICS!!!!

We made up names for the pups that can DEFINITELY be changed by their new owners but here is how I will reference them :)

Darker red female: Princess Leia

Lighter female: Lucy

Blue collared male: Hank

No collar male: (used to be green but he out grew): Scout

 Above: The blonde female Lucy

 Above and below: Males

 Above: Princess Leia LOVES the big dog beds

Below: Princess Leia got her self stuck in the work bench, the boys saved her!

 A game of chase the empty box and Luke is in full swing!

 Below:  Last Thursday was one of our warmer days so we headed outside with the pups!

They LOVED it!

 Above: Nikki going over the rules of playing outside!

Below: Meeting Recon the cat

 A game of chase with a pine cone!

 Above and below:  The blonde female Princess Leia checks out the snow for the first time!

5 1/2 weeks old and SO much fun!

The puppies are truly at such a cute age (this doesn't stop) they wag their tails at your voice and lick your face to no end!  They chase the boys around in the garage and house and snuggle in your arms and fall asleep.

Here are some pics off my phone from our past few days, my big camera is having difficulties holding a charge so I haven't been able to take pictures off of it and my phone is so full I keep having to delete to take new pictures :(.  I have a new battery on the way! 

More puppy pics to come soon!

 Above: Calisee got a bath and her hair brushed so she thought Ginny needed her hair brushed too! 

Luke taking the pups for a ride!

Luke had a friend over today and I think they could have spent the entire day with the pups!

We have SO much SNOW!

I haven't measured yet but we have a ton of snow! Wednesday it never stopped snowing❄

The big dogs are loving it and the puppies are staying warm in the garage or on someones lap in the house!

Here are some pics from the past few days!

 I think they are dry mom! Can I let them in?

 Above: Momma Macy

Below: Grandma Nikki LOVES to roll in the snow!

 Above: Ginny and daddy Drake

Below: Daddy Drake

 Above: Ginny

Below: Drake

 Dinner time and nap time!

 Above and below: Momma Macy

 The view from the bus stop picking up the boys

 My parents dog "Smokey" came over to play!

 Above: My 3 LOVES!

Below: Daddy Drake in the DEEP snow!

4 weeks old!

The puppies turned 4 weeks old yesterday!  Time is going by so fast with them.  They got their new big puppy pen Saturday and have started eating soaked puppy food and are loving it!  Today they got new toys (the big dogs stole a couple and Drake already got the squeaker out of one!)

 Below:  Our house sits up on a little hill which means we have a great sledding driveway for our kiddos!  We took the big dogs out and played last night.

 Above:  Its getting harder to get a pic with all 4!  

 Above: Nikki 

 Above: Ginny giving kisses

 Play time!

Below: It didn't take long at all for the pups to figure out they like puppy food!