January

In January, we decided Caleb had finally outgrown the 30-year-old port-a-crib he had been sleeping in, so it was time for him to graduate into a real crib. Which meant Sabrina needed a new bed, because our crib doubles as a toddler-size bed that Sabrina was sleeping in. So we moved that into Caleb's room and put the rails on, then built a new bed for Sabrina that fit under Celia's bed, and adorned it with a Welsh flag duvet cover (since her middle name Carys is Welsh).

One day Caleb built a train track around the Buddha statue. We captioned this photo "Derailed on the track to enlightenment."

Marel and I got to go to our first Alaska Aces hockey game, thanks to some friends who gave us tickets.

One of the fun things we do a couple times a year is our informal dutch oven cook-off. We go up to our friends' house way up on the hillside overlooking the inlet and we all cook something new in our dutch ovens, then we have a big feast with everything we've cooked. It's sort of like a rustic, backwoods Thanksgiving. We always make a dessert, because you can't have a feast without a good dessert, and most people make ribs or meaty stews or salmon and halibut. I don't remember what we made this time, but it was good.