wow it's December already, can you believe it???? Time passes faster and faster every year. Thanksgiving went off without a hitch. I worked until 3:30 came home and Lee and I threw everything into the oven and Bret arrived from the slope at about 7pm. Couldn't have planned it better if we tried. lol

It was actually the first year I cooked for holidays, because we have always been with family. Glad to say it was deeeelicious. We've had more snow since last I wrote, we have at least a foot on the ground right now. It's even been in the 20's most days, and this week they are talking about temps in the 30's which is around 0'C. It's funny cuz the weather here is warmer in the winter than it was in Kansas, because 1. we don't have any wind and 2.it's nowhere near as humid here as in Manhattan. Anchorage is it's own unique ecosystem we stay moderate all year long instead of 110' summer and -60' winter in somewhere like Fairbanks.

The moose are starting to appear, almost daily now which I think is a little later than last year. We still haven't seen the Northern Lights, we tried last weekend but it didn't work out. We'll keep you posted though, and hopefully have pics!

Bret's home until Thursday and then back up on the slope until Dec.22, back right in time for Xmas. We picked up a little norfollk pine tonight and some lights and decorations. Of course we had to get K-state purple beads to decorate the tree. You can take the kansan out of KS but not the KS out of the kansas....ha ha ha....if that makes any sense. So tonight is "Funniest home Videos", "Extreme home Make over" and tree decorating night. Quite a family night if I do say so myself.

Bret just got over a cold, he scheduled right on target for getting sick the day after he got home, Lee has managed so far to avoid it....yea lee! I didn't catch the cold but had a toothache, so I went into the dentist to get a simple filling and came out 2.5hours later with a root canal, stitches in my gums, and two temperary crowns. If anyone knows my dislike of dentists you'll understand that I was in abject terror the entire time....ick.

I'll try to get some pics this week and have Lee write a quick note to all.

Please, keep those comments coming it's nice to know who's checking out our site.

love you all, and miss you terribly

Jan, Bret, and Lee