Thursday, December 24, 2009

White Christmas

There's no dreaming of a White Christmas up here. It's a reality! We love all the beautiful white stuff. This little plane off Lake Hood is taking a long winter's nap.
Have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!


Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Polished Painter


My son is a going to be a great painter someday...will probably run with the avant garde set. Based on his skills with my nail polish, I'd say he's got a great future with the Blue Man Group too, if he so chooses.  But they'll have to adapt to him being covered in sparkly red rather than their trademark blue...

He got a hold of the polish and painted his arms, fingers, legs, hair and somehow missed his face...but he didn't miss the comforter he was sitting on.  The new comforter, to be exact.  The one on our bed that I fondly glanced at for the last couple weeks as I was passing the bedroom. I guess we'll just flip it over.  Good thing Caleb got most of the polish completely covering his legs so that there were only a few drops and drizzles on the comforter.

Yep, he's an artist!

p.s. Our batteries died in the camera so no pics were recorded.  I'm just not destined to be a great blogger.  Either my camera is on the fritz or the blog is on the fritz or I'm on the fritz. I'll leave the phenomenal blogging to all of you lovely people out there.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

We have a picture to post!


Caleb putting the star on ye olde tree!

I'm so excited, I can hardly believe what I'm seeing. After more than 60 days of not being able to post pics I've finally had success.  I'm just posting one for today.  When I have more time I'll post some more.
We are still having people here everyday to work on the restoration of our crawl space.  We are working around them.  I made a nice batch of cinnamon rolls to take to neighbors and friends yesterday. Tonight we are going to see gingerbread town.  The entire town is edible!  A pastry chef in town does it every year.  We'll try and snap some good pics.

I'm so happy to be blogging!!...

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

We're back in Anchorage


We enjoyed a sunny Thanksgiving holiday in Phoenix and the surrounding cities, including Tucson, Williams, Flagstaff, and Maricopa. We were so happy to see family and friends.


We came home to busted pipes and a dank, humid house. A reeking-of-mold type aroma has filled the house and the crawl space is covered in mold and water. We've been on the phone, running errands to buy tools/supplies and sweating up a storm. So we don't have time to post pics and we are extending our vacation by staying in another hotel tonight. When the going gets tough, the Mix's go swimming at a hotel....