Christmas Cards, and...

We hope you all had a great holiday this year! Santa visited our house and left us some great jars of honey, little boxes of cookies, and some new DVDs to watch over the winter. We also received some wonderful Christmas cards from our pals, and as you can see, some nice fluffy snow.

First we received a card from our pal Sandy.

and a fun letters present for us to make word puzzles! Jerry had fun putting words together...

and then he helped Ben to put words together.

Thanks Sandy! Next, we got a fun photo card from our pal Little Fox.

Thanks Little Fox! We also received some online greetings from Marlowe and Buttons, and a jar of honey from Ajdin! Finally, we also received a fun handmade card from Droopy.

Thanks Droopy! Hey...wait a minute! Look who's here!!

It's our pal Karl!

Regular readers of our blog will remember that Karl is an exchange student snowman from the far north, way up in the Yukon, and stayed with us last year. Well, Karl actually stayed in our back yard, because if he stayed inside the house he would M E L T (and we always spell that word, never say it,  because it would not be polite to Karl). Karl took a couple classes in Arctic Studies at the University of Minnesota. Well, he is back for another winter term and will be staying with us again. Karl will be taking intermediate snowflake architecture, advanced ice fishing, and an introduction to global warming, which is beary important for snow persons because they need to know if they need to move farther north! We're really glad to be hosting Karl again.

Did you get any snow for Christmas?