Merry Christmas from a beautiful and cold Alaska day :)

Merry Christmas everyone!! I hope my family has a wonderful day as they are in Florida and Wisconsin :) Miss you all! I hope everyone has a wonderful day with friends and family. For those of you serving our country and alone on the holidays, thank you so much for your sacrifice!

It has been a crazy busy month for us.  We have had a lot of ups and downs.  I guess as it got cold in WI it got warm here we had a few days of freezing rain, lost a lot of snow and had so much ice we couldn't run dogs.  We've had a few injured dogs so the medicine list has been getting bigger, but I love that Deedee has taught me about all the meds and when to give them.  I've learned a lot about how their feet can break down in different types of snow and how to apply the ointment for that.  After all the rain we had a huge snow storm probably 15 inches.  Thankfully we had some help come out that day to clean off house and shovel all the snow. I got to learn some new trails as we went out to pioneer the river. It was still not frozen enough so we had to take a different trail home on the snowmobiles (snow machines as they call them up here). We continued to get more snow and after all the ice we had it broke down a lot of trees.  This past weekend we had a power outage for 14+ hours.  Sleeping with no heat in AK is no fun....  The next day we had to spend it clearing up trees around the kennel and some went out to clear trails. Had 6 tons of meat to unload as well. All said and done its been an interesting month!

Puppies!!!

I also got to take out a 5 dog team with Chase! He did not do so well though. I have also taken out a few 6 dog teams and took a few new trails.

I am going to leave the writing short this time and just show some of the pictures I have gotten over the month! Enjoy!

Chase running in the team :)

Python finally came inside by us to hang out with Dratini... Spoiled old dogs

Meet Viking big fat puppy... he got scared when we brought him inside and tried to hide but he got stuck 

This is about where he fell out of line poor guy

6 Dog Team :)

Glad I wasn't here when this guy showed up

Dog wheel frozen... had to have some fun :)

So much fun!

All the warm weather caused the snow to fall off all the roofs

Taku enjoying her new hay

Sunrise

Lucy enjoying some freedom around the kennel

Love these dogs

looking one way ... sunset

look the other way... moon and stars

Just some of Deedee's Iditarod trophies!

Moose steaks!

Silly volt

Our little Christmas tree decorated with booties :)

Full Moon

Sunrise

Mt. McKinley just below the redish colors in the sunrise

Solstice party bonfire!

Christmas Party, 11 dogs 10 people.  Chase made a new friend