Christmas Treeing

Our new dog friends: Cameron and Kenyan

Mariah demonstrating how to use their ball throwing wand.  haha.

Mt. Edgecombe

Kenyan

Cameron

 

Chris and Mariah's Christmas tree is somewhere in there.  ha!

 Our Christmas tree is one of the trees blurred in the background.  :)

Our tree is on the left

 

This is not our tree.  Ours is in the back of the truck.  

 

our tree. blocked by us.

Our new kitchen curtains!  Bought them from Etsy.  Made out of coffee burlap bags.  Looove them!

I like that they conveniently cut out most of the apt. complex next door yet leaves the lovely mountain peak.

Homemade salmon burgers.  I will shamelessly toot my own horn here.  They were AMAZING!  And a side of roasted brussel sprouts...my new favorite vegetable. 

Babysitting our new friend, Charlie.

Catch-uP

yummy. beautiful...yet practical!   Thanks Bill!

Our First Thanksgiving* 

              *on our own (without family)

           *where the fate of Thanksgiving lied in our hands

Trevor's battle wound to commemorate.  Hot gravy.  :(

Butter...herbs....butter....more butter.

weird....but oh, so right at the same time.  :) 

26 lb.!  Ended up being a bit of a bust....but it sure looked pretty!

my pecan pie.  which nobody ate but Trevor and I.  por que?!

Sir Trevor and Jack, his boss.  :)

Our peeps...Mariah and Chris.

A serious game of Thanksgiving Sorry going on between Chris, Mariah, Keet, and Jan Woo (Jack's kids).

 

Random.

Probably about a month ago we had a wind storm so bad that we woke up to this.  I took this picture from our deck that looks out onto the lake across the street.  :)  !!!

My rugged, handsome, mountain man ready for his walk to work. 

Our new friend, Charlie.  :)  We like his parents too; Nate and Genelle.

Nate, Charlie, and Mariah.

Your suspicions are true.  I'm not afraid to admit it.  :)

Redoubt Trip!

Two weeks ago I went on a work trip to Redoubt Lake to help out with some water sampling and to chop some fire wood.  The lake is about 8 miles south of Sitka and is another spectacular area.  The boat ride down was a little bumpy, but we did see four whales just outside of town.  On our down time, I finally had a chance to do a little fishing!  We had a limited fishing time, but Joe (the guy I went down with) and I each caught two coho salmon.  Ever since I returned to town, most of our dinners have consisted of salmon... tasty, tasty, salmon!