Christmas eve !

Christmas Season 09

This year I tried to do some different I implemented the 25 days of Christmas with material that Teresa was kind to send me! I have to admit I was not able to do it every single night, but most nights we had fun activities with the girls! Our very first one was the ginger bread house! Danielle loved it Sophia was more interesting in eating the the candies than anything else.

Another night we went to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus. It was not what I expected, but we still had fun! Danielle told Santa what she wanted for Christmas and he was such a kind Santa. She told Danielle, who was wearing a top that says "Princess", you did not have to wear that top I already now you are a princess! Sophia was not very fond of Santa so daddy had to hold her.

Gram sent the girls their Christmas dresses at the beginning of december, so they have to wear them in different events and Christmas parties! We went to a few of them and it was so much fun! I love this pictures of them sitting on the bottom of our stairs

Another of our Christmas Season outti was the pioneer park! it was minus ridiculous outside, but we wanted to go and enjoy the fireworks, so we did and had fun!

We also got to decorate our Christmas tree! Sophia was so excited about the lights every time we went out and we drove by our neighborhood she would pointed all the decorations and Christmas lights. It was our own trail of lights. Not sure if you know but it is dark here almost all day long so it is so much fun to have all the Christmas lights on all day long as well

Danielle Dancing

More museum pictures !

Bonus picture. This is the way Charles bundle up to walk to work every morning. Yesterday he added an outer layer.

A Polar bear and some seals

Sophia lloking a piece of stone took from the tectonic plates. Not sure if you know but Alaska covers pretty much all the natural disaster from Tsunami to earthquake.

Danielle and her totem again!

At UAF museum

LAst Saturday we went to The University of Alaska at Fairbanks Museum! It was a very fun experience specially because it was -15 outside, so it was nice to entertain ourself with some indoor activity.

The very 1st thing Danielle noticed was this huge totem pole which is right outside the museum. She was fascinated by it and she wanted a picture of her with it , so her daddy took her outside and did as she aske, while a very unhappy Sophia ( because she wanted to go too) and I waited in the car.

Sophia was fascinated by this huge black bear which is standing tall right by the entrance. Initially she was afraid of it ,but then she kept on going back to see it and she will say "puppy". Unfortunately our camera acted up and half of the pictures we took were completely dark , but Charles fixed it and here are some of the good ones.

Danielle and her to tem pole . It amaze me the words that she know . I did not realize she know what a totem pole is.

Here is another picture

This is a smal totem ole inside the museum and she wanted a picture of it.

Sophia was mesmerized by this artic fox. She wanted to touch it so she tried to "remove" the glass.

This is a huge whale's skull.

Playing in the Snow!

Charles decided he wanted to build a snow man in our backyard! but the snow is like dust up here because of the lack of humitity in the air, so he decided to water the snow, but it still a project in progress

Saturday afternoon we headed to Birch Hill ( The ski place) to get some pictures taken on a real dog sled. While we waited for our turn our friend took some pictures of us here is one!

After the pciturs Charles and Danielle played on the sled. Originally, Sophia did not want to , but when she saw Danielle having so much fun she joined them

having fun in the snow

Specialist Flynn!

Yesterday, my dear husband was promoted from E4 ( PFC) to E5 ( Specialist). We had the opportunity to participate in this ceremony where his NCO said very nice things about Charles and his progress and how proud he was to be able to submit his name for promotion before his actual time and get it approved. Sophia and Danielle were so happy for their daddy and so was I. I can't express with words how much it meant for me to be part of this small ceremony, but very significant for our little family. Danielle asked Charles all sort of questions about his new batch. I would like to share my joy and happiness with you all.