Merry Christmas!

We started our day out opening stockings. Payton was so excited that it was FINALLY Jesus' birthday!


Madelyn loved her new klean kanteen bottle.

She was also happy to get a baby doll...this picture just doesn't portray it!

Ethan B

This is from the Juneau Empire. It's great shot of Erik's tug, Ethan B, on their way to Hawk Inlet on Wednesday. It was blowing about 50mph and seas were 6-8 feet. Surprisingly no one got seasick!!

Santa Clause is coming to town...

...well to Home Depot actually...via helicopter! Payton couldn't care less about Santa, however he was thrilled to be able to watch the helicopter!!

Before watching Santa Payton and Erik built a wooden helicopter at the kids workshop. Madelyn was SO happy to have gotten a hold of the instructions. She likes to eat paper.

Erik, being Erik, had to make sure everything was just right before he'd let Payton pound the nails in.


Voila! Finished product!!

SNOW!!

We finally got a bit of snow that stuck. While it's not much (maybe 4-5 inches total so far), it's still fun to play in! We all got our gear on and played in the snow while Erik cleared the driveway and sidewalk with the snow-blower.

Payton wanted to make (and throw!) snowballs.

I convinced him to help shovel snow instead. Thanks for the new shovel Baba!

Madelyn was content to watch from the backpack. She was a little under the weather due to teething.