More sunrise/sunset

Here is a time lapse video from today. The first picture was taken at 11:13 a.m. and the last at 1:31 p.m.

It's up, It's up!!!

Liam had a pretty good 5th birthday. Today was a bit busy, making and decorating cupcakes for school that isn't apparently until tomorrow... making and decorating birthday cake... going to (and coming back from) school that isn't apparently until tomorrow... supper with neighbours... presents... and playing!

Mail!	Happy Birthday 5-year-old boy!
Helping make the birthday cake.
Finally...	I'm not about to open my brother's present!
What's in here?
Blowing those candles out like a pro!
A pteranodon cake.	Mmmm.... chocolate with creamy orange filling.
Two cuties.

What's been happening...

Some random pictures.

The bunk beds we ordered in July finally arrived! The boys are no longer "camping!"	Liam drew a picture of a planet - with a heart island. If you look closely you can see (at the top) a sun, moon, and comet, and at the bottom there is a red planet, a blue planet, and a purple planet (showing what happened when red and blue collided).
Story time.	Miniature bananas! How cute!
The sun was supposed to come up on the 18th, but it was too foggy to tell. This was taken today. I think the sun is still below those mountains over there. It is definitely getting lighter out. Today I didn't even turn on any lights downstairs until after lunch! And it was light out when we went to school and when we came back. Oh, wait - I had the wrong day and there's no school until tomorrow, so I suppose that doesn't count. We'll check tomorrow and see if it's dark out. If we have time. It's -52 with the wind chill, so we're not exactly hanging around out there!

Happy New Year!

We celebrated the New Year by NOT going to bed before midnight! In fact, we had a storm with really big wind gusts. And we managed to stay up late enough to see the fireworks and snowmobile parade that were supposed to be at midnight, but took place when the storm died down, around 1:15.

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Today was such a nice day that we went outside to explore the snow dunes.