Portage ski

Portage

Aaron wanted me to drive the truck around to get a feel for it so we drove out to Portage and he let me practice with it in the snow and ice where there weren't many cars around. Good call Aaron. We made a day of it and cross country skiied out to Byron Glacier.

Kodi wasn't really sure of the ice

Aaron out on the ice pulling some Michael Jackson moves

Cross Country skiing

Cross country skiing

We got another eight inches so we decided to see how Kodi liked skiing.

The sun is huge! It doesn't visit much anymore but between two and three on the horizon it looks like the crazy fireball its supposed to be.

Kodi does in fact love it!

Can you find the Lab?

So if you can't tell we still need some more snow to smooth out the bumps. My first crash of the season was hilarious. I ate snow. Good thing it was not yellow snow! Aaron crashed the first time down and saved the last time which we got on video. If you have eight seconds, check out my instagram for it. It's hilarious! I can watch it over and over and over.

Taking a breather.

Holiday fun

Holiday Fun

I've really been trying to make holidays a bigger deal in our house. Last year we did absolutely nothing for any of the holidays but Christmas. Both of us have to work all holidays, but we managed to buy a couple of bags of candy and carved pumpkins. Our carved pumpkins never ended up rotting even though we had them out for two weeks. I guess the cold deserves some credit for being occasionally awesome.

If you can't tell Aaron and I had a blast!

Ford Mustang

Pumpkin pirate

We didn't even have to feel guilty about eating all the candy because we don't have trick or treaters. Ok, a little guilty because I can practically see the candy transform into thigh fat. I watched a scary movie by myself while Aaron was at work. He is still 3-Midnight. I have become the biggest wuss! The movie wasn't even scary, and I had to keep the light on until he came home. It's like my mind decides right before I go to sleep, "Hmmm...you know what you haven't thought about in a while? Monsters! Spiders. Aliens. Scary people with knives." You get the idea. I'm just proud we did something to celebrate.

Thanksgiving

I realize its a horrible picture but I didn't take any other pictures. My bad. We celebrated Thanksgiving on Monday when we were both off. I had put the ham in the oven and about an hour before I thought I could get everything done, Aaron said we should invite Jamie and Chuck from downstairs to dinner with us. I thought it was a great idea. We had Ham (I rocked it, it was perfect unlike my Easter Ham of 2011 when we had to cut off the first three inches of blackness.), green beans, potatoes, rolls, stuffing, candied yams (courtesy of Aaron), fruit salad, sparkling cider, and delicious Hibiscus tea that Jamie brought. Jamie works with me at the spa, so it was fun to talk with them for a couple of hours.

For dessert we had pumpkin pie from Costco with the real whip cream (we splurged). I also made some mini pumpkin pies for me with gluten free pie crust. Funny story. I baked the crust in cupcake tins and put in my homemade pumpkin pie mix and put them in the fridge while I was dealing with everything else. My mom is a master in the kitchen. I get stressed trying to cook three things at the same time and rewashing bowls and pans to use because we only have three pans. Anyway at the end of a delicious meal I get out the pies and am completely frustrated my gluten free ones have not set. Not usual to have to try several times to make gluten free things work, so I blew it off and ate one of my pumpkin pies, absolutely disgusted with how they tasted. Not til the next day did I remember I hadn't baked them with mix in them! So I had eaten raw pumpkin pie the day before. ha ha. After they were baked it was super yummy and I'm really happy they turned out good!

After they were baked.

I set up the tree the next day. It's so beautiful and I love listening to Christmas music and decorating our tree. It makes it really special that we bought one bigger than us this year. :)

New place

New Place

Moving day again. This every six months thing is getting old. To add to the frustration, every single time we've moved its been a blizzard outside. We got no less then six inches.

To make matters worse, the only place we could find that would allow dogs and was under $2000 in rent was up a huge hill halfway up the mountain. We are overlooking Girdwood and the highest up on the mountain that you can get. It's a beautiful view, but when we loaded our car with our first load of our useless junk we can't live without, we only made it up ten feet. Maybe I'm being generous. Three feet up. Not a good omen when first moving in. So we borrowed a Suburban to the get the job done and decided it was mandatory to get a truck. Aaron thought this was a very very good idea. He's only been looking at them for the past two years. So far my car can make it up as long as they have plowed and graveled. I've only slid down once when it was all ice. My bad-A winter driving skills have come a long way! The truck now has chains and has made it everytime.

Our apartment is on the top floor and we have to trudge through two flights of stairs and the snow to get to the basement but we are ecstatic to have a washer/dryer in the house! Our laundry mat costs five dollars a load! Our bed is on the ground, we have a total of four dishes, and our closet is made of plastic cubes-but we love it! We have a deck and our whole apartment is windows. It's gorgeous!

Bedroom

Pretty ghetto, but it works!

Kitchen Table and our dishes stacked on wire shelves

Living room

Bathroom with hot water. Score!

Part of the ceiling is windows too. Kodi and Sadie hate it when the snow falls off the house. Scares them pretty bad.

Our awesome truck. Or should I say Aaron's awesome truck. He let me drive it once. We keep it in 4 wheel drive all the time and the only time its let us down was after filling the tank. 8.4 miles to the gallon. Ouch!