Currier & Ives and Masters Degree Finished

Before leaving Kodiak for Christmas in Nebraska we enjoyed our annual Currier & Ives Old Fashioned Christmas Celebration. It was a cold night, but wonderful as usual. Stephen was George Bailey, I was Mary and Greyson played Zu Zu for It's a Wonderful Life. Stephen was also the shepherd who announced the birth of Jesus. It was a cold snowy night, but a wonderful time.

There is another picture in the mix here of Stephen making a snow angle on our deck. This was at the completion of his masters degree. Yes, he is finished!!! Praise the Lord for his faithfulness throughout the past three years!

Happy 28th Birthday Stephen!

During our great Thanksgiving weekend Stephen celebrated his 28th birthday. We wondered for a while if his annual cake was going to get made, but we enjoyed it around 10:30 pm the night of his birthday. It's amazing how different (but wonderful) our life is with Greyson.
Here are a couple more pictures too from our time with Lance and Charolette.

The Annual Ugly Sweater Christmas Party

A couple of years ago our friends decided to start the tradition of an ugly sweater party. This year Stephen and I kept it going. We had a great time with many of our good friends in Kodiak. We set up a place for portraits to be taken and there were so many great ones. Stephen really loves things like this and yes, those are tight (woman) red pants. He always steals the show!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Lance and Charolette, (Lance is my first cousin on my mom's side) came down from Kotzebue and enjoyed some warm weather and longer days. Thankgiving morning they ran in the Turkey trot, then we all went for a nice walk at Ft. Abercrombie and then off to Thanksgiving with the Davidson family. It was a great day with lots of food fun and laughter. We have so much to be thankful for!

A Great Heitman Hike!

We had an incredible time with my cousin Lance and his wife Charolette! They are wonderful people that we just don't get to see enough. On Saturday we had a great time hiking together. Of course Lance spotted some bears and we enjoyed watching them throughout our day. We hiked up to the peak, stopped for some lunch, came back down did a little fishing and then headed home. It was a perfect day! The picture with Greyson sideways is him sleeping. He's a great little hiker:)

Family Fun

We had a nice cold spell of weather which means ICE! I had no idea how we were going to go ice skating with Greyson and then a friend told me to just use our stroller. So we loaded up and headed straight down from our house to Mission Lake. It was a great way to spend our morning.
Greyson doesn't have a lot of down time and as of November 21st he has been crawling all over the place. He's quite the little mover. He is also so much fun and while he keeps Stephen and me moving we sure do love it.

Huge Rope Swing!

So while fall has been extremely busy for our family we of course have found some time to have fun. One of the construction workers from this past summer at the Mission decided to build a huge rope swing behind our house. It is so incredible I cannot even begin to explain it. Stephen has had a great time swinging on it again and again. He got so into it he even made a video. So enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfYiyWofQ98