Sadly, Christmas 1999 was Grandma Alice's last. I have many fond memories of her including those early Christmases I spent with her and Grandpa Louie up in Two Harbors.
Dale and I moved into our house in November of 1997. Sophie came to us in February of 2000. She was with us for 11 of the 14 Christmases that we've celebrated in this house. She will be greatly missed. The above picture is not actually Sophie. It is taken from a Christmas card I sent out a just a couple years after Sophie came into our lives. I thought it was appropriate since the dog in the picture looks almost exactly like her.