Sparkle the Elf

This is our elf from Santa for the season!  His name is Sparkle!

 

Reindeer Baby!

They are only little for such a short time!  You have to get all the cute pictures you can before they get old enough to protest!

 

I tried to get pictures of all of the boys, but they ALL turned out looking like hilarious outtakes!

 

Sam's First Thanksgiving

Look at that cuteness!  He slept through most of his first Thanksgiving dinner.  We have officially left Alaska and are back in our hometown of San Antonio, Texas.  Sam and his brothers got to spend this Thanksgiving with both sets of grandparents.

 

Last Sledding Adventure in Alaska

We are preparing to leave Alaska.  I have loved all of the amazing adventures and activities we have been able to experience here!  I am a little sad to leave it and leave a couple of families who have been amazing friends to us (even before we got to Alaska!  We were so blessed that their assignments from the Air Force brought them to the same base as us again!).  On this day all of our stuff was packed up and taken away by the movers, but we ventured out to the sledding hill at the elementary school for one more day of sledding.

 

So glad Nate could come out and sled with us!  Can't believe we have known this great kid since he was two years old!

In the background is the Mt. Spurr Elementary, where Ben and Will went to school.