Downtown Anchorage by the iceskating ring!
BEAUTIFUL!! Snow+ice fog+twinkle lights=WINTER WONDERLAND!
A gingerbread village....amazing!
The ice fog on a tree. In Anchorage, we get a "winter" fog for 1 day to a few days at a time which
COVERS EVERYTHING in beautiful ice crystals!
The ice fog hit the park across the street!
Out our front door.... pretty eh??
the most gorgeous sunset ever!
Adam's first time iceskating....in a light wintry snow!
First time skating....hitting a hockey puck w/in 5 minutes!
Oh-boy! Big man on skates!
The scenery of the trail we were on!
HEHE! First time firing up the snowblower!
Oh-Boy!! Big man got stuck!
Goofball!
Getting down the challenging hill!
OOPS!
Mama wanted to play in the snow!
It's a BEAR, it's a LYNX, it's a WOLF.....nah it's just Angel mama!
Snickers cuddling in with me while I worked!
Yes he is a cat....but he's from a HAWKEYE family!! :)don't worry it was just water!
Alrighty peeps...... here is life in a nutshell!
-Snickers passed away :( He was 15 years old and lived a happy life! We all miss him, Angel is still pretty mopey. The vet's office made a really cool paw print with his name in clay-like material, hung by red ribbon. (red was his favorite color, he humped Adam's red Santa pants and pulled THE SAME red shirt out of my closet time after time ---Jackson Elem.tshirt!---
--We have been ENJOYING the Alaskan winter. If you have checked the weather....most days are warmer and milder here than in Iowa. I FROZE while in Iowa for Christmas...the mixture of cold and wind made Anchorage seem "tropical"! Reason being that we are on the edge of the bay. We have started cross-country skiing and are snowboarding at any chance! You saw some pictures of the ice fog....just a really foggy winter day that leaves everything "frosted" and beautiful!
---YES we have daylight! That was teh number-one question when we were home. On December 19th when we came back to Iowa...sunrise was around 10:30a.m. and sunset around 3:30p.m. December 21st is the shortest day in Anchorage....so we are gaining daylight again. Around 5-10 minutes a day! Don't forget that Alaska is a HUGE state....so there is quite a difference in weather and daylight, depending where you are in the state.
----Adam was back in Iowa for 1 week and I was back for 2. 2 weeks seems like a long time, but I didn't get to see/spend as much time with everyone I had wanted to or do a few things I had hoped to do.....BUT it was a fabulous time! The nieces/nephew have really grown-up, it's truly amazing how much they have changed in 6 months! MISS YOU ALL!
SeAsOnS GrEeTiNgS!!!! (a little late!)
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