Our New Year

Space man Mylan



OOps I got 2 of this picture posted - it's cute

Beana in her monkey pajamas and her Christmas jewelry.
Justin on Christmas eve - smile on face, pain pills kicking in.
metal work Brian is doing to repair blown up boat.
more blown up boat repairs
Mylan in snow mobile hat.

We finally have snow and snow and snow. Poor Justin is still laid up with his bum ankle. They still say it is just a sprain, but it has been 2 weeks and he can still not put any weight on it.

Brian has been working on the big boat project - you can tell from the pictues, it is a very complicated project. He had 17 days off from the school and has worked most of them on the boat. He still has a ways to go to finish it. In case you missed it, the boat belongs to a charter fisherman and another welding company was doing some work on it and blew it up. The insurance company totalled it and the owner bought it back from them and Brian is working to rebuild it. The money has been a great blessing to help us get thru the winter months, especially with the cut in Alicia's hours and with Justin being home in bed with the bad ankle.

For New Years Day, Autumn called to see if they could come over for dinner - she was cooking an asian dish and wanted to share it and I said we were planning a Chinese feast as we usually have on New Years, so we combined meals and had a great evening. Mylan kept wanting to wear the snow mobile helmet. It was really funny because it is so big on him. We took a few pictures, but you really can't get the spirit of the thing. We were all laughing ourselves silly. Then Beena tried it on and it was so heavy, it kept tipping her over so we didn't get any pictures of that - just of her helmet head and the look on her face when she got up from being tipped over. They are going tomorrow to buy their house in Kenai, so in a month or so they will be moved up there. We'll have to go up there to go shopping more, since they will be living there and we will want to go see them. It's not that much difference - we drive 30 miles to see them now and will drive about 50 miles to see them after they move. but we will really miss them, especially for church and for scrap booking.

I haven't taken any pictures of the snow yet this year - maybe I'll send the dog out to play and get some pictures for you this week.

Love, Charlotte