Winter Wonderland

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Well, forget fall...winter has arrived with lows of -15 this week! The girls are excited because they love for Brent to pull us in the sled with the 4 wheeler. Abby made beautiful snow angels and ate the freshly fallen snow. We have had snow for the last 3 weeks but it melted for 1 day and this is the newest batch.

Tiny Dancers

Avery and Abby are in the same class this year. It is so much fun to watch them! Avery is only 2 but Miss. Mo was sick of Avery crying in the door every week "I wanna dance too!' So she let her join early.... Thank you! Avery loves dancing. She is so proud of herself. I'm actually a little surprised at how well she is doing. Abby is such a sweet big sister. She is always saying "I'll help ya sissy." They are such good friends. Im so glad they are so close in age.

Avery, Abby and our friends Eliza and Lucy. This is they're last session before they move. We will miss you!

Our newest addition!

Okay, I'm officially crazy! We got a puppy... but how could we resist? I mean look at him, just look! He is so cute! He is such a good little guy too. Other than a few accidents, he's been so good. He doesn't chew, (so far anyway) although waking up to take him potty stinks cause it's so cold at night. Needless to say, the girls LOVE him. The poor guy doesn't get a break all day. Let's see, what else? Oh yes, his name you might ask? Brent likes Pepper yet Abby is still insisting on Petri or Perrito? Who knows where she comes up with these ideas.

Daddy got Avery her own "hunting shirt." She loves it, she asks to wear it everyday. It's not exactly my favorite but oh well. She tells everyone her Daddy is taking her to hunt "caiboo." (caribou) I bought a bunch of brown ribbon so atleast she'd look like a girl hunter but she won't leave them in. Every other shirt, she leaves her bows in but not with this one and it drives me crazy. I know, I know, I'm sweating the small things here but, it really annoys me, even though she's as cute as she can be.

dentist

Well, Abby and Avery both went to their 1st dentist appointment. They have been looking forward to it for weeks. After the foam flouride though, Abby wasn't so impressed and we left in tears. She came home and told Daddy how much fun it is at the dentist and how they get to wear sunglasses and look for "sugar bugs." It's so funny to hear what stands out to them.

Are you kidding me?!?

No!! Not already... Frost on Sept. 2nd. We were driving into town the other day and Abby says "Ooh mom, the trees are so beautiful!" Yes, they are but not really because that means winter is on it's way and I'm absolutely NOT ready for it! I'm still waiting for summer to show up. I think there were 2 days where it actually hit 80 degrees. We wore jackets all of August. Well, I guess that's enough of my wallowing in my own sorrow. Thanks for listening.

Alaska Pipeline

El Dorado

We all went and panned gold at El Dorado. It's a very Alaskan thing to do. We panned $70 worth of gold all together. Holy smokes, look how big my little brother is! I can't believe it, he's passed up Brent.