Christmas 2006

Unfortunately we did not have a new baby to share Christmas with but we had a great holiday just the same. Christmas Eve we stayed in Delta and went for a nice ski during the day and had a quiet dinner at home.





Christmas morning we opened a few gifts from friends and family- the dogs were excited to get their presents too!

Later in the afternoon we made the trip to Fairbanks to have dinner with friends. We had an amazing feast complete with King Crab, tamales, stuffed eggplant, salmon cakes, cranberry sauce, salad and homemade truffles. Julie also fired up the hot tub and Stacia mixed up some of her famous margaritas. This baby better hurry up so I can join in the fun again!

Cookies

It just wouldn't have seemed like Christmas without decorating sugar cookies. Jeff doesn't get too excited about colored sprinkles so Ellen and Rachelle came over to help out.

Great News!!!

Jeff's sister, Liz, had her baby on Sunday!! Little Ana Kathryn Mellone weighed in at 6lbs 9oz and we are happy to report Mom, Dad and Baby are all healthy and happy!!!! We can't wait to meet her.

Tick tock, tick tock.....

Less than a week to my due date! I have taken time off work to get ready for the baby, I think we are pretty much set so now we are just waiting and practicing :)

Proud Papa

Big mama

Adrian and Dan came for a visit a couple weeks ago and Jeff and Adrian made a bet on the baby's gender. Adrian says girl, Jeff says boy. If its a boy Adrian will deliver us chocolate baked goods every month for 3 months, if its a girl Jeff owes Adrian several pounds of wild Alaska game meat. I hope its a Boy!!!

Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree

We went out on Saturday and got our Christmas tree off the back 30. Luckily it was only 10 below zero, heat wave!

It's a good thing I went along to supervise, birch trees do not make very good Christmas trees!

That's looking a little better...

The final choice- it turned out pretty nice.

Big weekend

When you live in Delta Junction you gotta do what you can. So, on Friday night Jeff and I went to watch the Delta Huskies hockey game. We are proud to report our little Huskies stomped the opposition 8-1! On Saturday we went out to Quartz lake for some ice fishing...my dad will be proud he raised a daughter that will go ice fishing when 9 months pregnant :) he would be even prouder to know that it was actually my idea! But we did rent out a fishing hut which has a wood stove in it- if only it had a window and some fish below it.

The Hut- nothing fancy but it was warmer than sitting out on the ice.

I am not quite as big as this jacket makes me look!

Mancha- patiently waiting for her fish.. or at least a chance at some of the bait.

The Sweeties!