12.20.06

The kids and Chris had fun with our bus driver Holly's go cart. They liked driving and Lizzy liked trying to spin circles.



























Well I'm finally putting up some text with these photos I like the before snow and after. Since it has been almost 10 days since I last put up some the fire hydrant is pretty much under snow. It snowed for almost 36 hours so for our first day of Jan 2007 there was atleast 12 inches not including the drifts. I will try to post some newer pictures today. We are loving the snow except for Chris when he has to work out in it.

Playing in the snow at the park. 12.20.06

So here are some photos of our park under snow. The blue sky didn't last very long we got more snow showers as we were playing.

Russian Church Snow 12.21.06

Here are some photos of the Russian Church here in Unalaska. It looks very pretty with all the snow and there are always eagles perched ontop of it.

The photo of the dumptruck is at Lizzy's school they were clearing the snow they had piled up. I have no idea where they are taking it to. City tax dollars at work.

More Snow 12.10.06

Well we finally got some snow that stayed for awhile. It started to snow early in the week and kept it up for most of the week. Well until last night that is. Last night it started to warm up and this morning it is turning to slush in a hurry. But were hoping there is more on the way for Christmas break. The kids have a lot of fun playing at the park even with snow on the ground. Chris went down with them and they made a snowman or snow dinosaur I think it was. But as you can see they had just as much fun destroying it as building it.

Sunday walk at Puffin Beach

This is a beach we named "Puffin Beach" because the first time we came here there were a whole bunch of Puffins on the cliffs. But they were all gone today.

Well Tommy is known for bringing home wood from the beach. Today was no different he needed a piece of that pallet. When we found out we were moving to Dutch he started bringing home drift wood from the beach every time we went. So needless to say he had a box full in the container when it left.

Was trying here to capture the color of the water. It is a very pretty aqua blue.

Putting up the (fake) tree

Well our first fake Christmas tree. We heard that they bring in containers of real ones but we decided since we have 3 Christmas' here that a fake one will do. It did seem a bit strange to be able to move the branches however you want them. Then we can leave it up longer too. The kids didn't seem to mind, they still had fun decorating it and then as you can see we all took turns taking some family pictures in front of it.

Grandma & Grandpa Riley always get the grandkids a new ornament each year. So I thought I would take a picture of them putting their ornaments on the tree first. Usually they don't get them until Christmas day but since we are here we get to put them on for this holiday.