This past week

This past week has been very busy for us with our two year anniversary and thanksgiving. To start with, the Saturday before our anniversary, the 22nd, we went into Fairbanks and bought a new vehicle. It's a Toyota Highlander, 2008. We're planning for a few years down the road when we have a couple carseats in the back. (No news on THAT yet, though.) Even though it looks gray in the picture, it's actually a greenish color. It's really cool with a moonroof, heated seats, a backup camera so you can see what's behind you, and it drives really well on the snow and ice. We figured the Highlander can be our anniversary gift for the next several years. :)

We had a wonderful anniversary. Michael surprised me by having roses sent to my work. They are gorgeous and smell beautiful. Michael is so sweet.

After work, we went to eat out at a local Fairbanks restraunt. I had almond breaded chicken and Michael had a seafood pasta. The restraunt treated us to a dessert of Baked Alaska since it was our anniversary. Baked Alaska is a piece of dense chocolate cake, covered in vanilla ice cream and whipcream and then baked for a few seconds and drizzled with raspberry syrup. It was very delicious.For thanksgiving, we went over to the house of one of the families in the church. Two other families were there as well, so we had eight adults and eight kids. Here's one of the little girls. She's slightly autistic, but she is so fun and cheerful.

After the turkey was eaten, the kids wandered upstairs to watch movies and the adults sat around the table and played a card game; Dutch Blitz. We played that game for at least three hours, probably more like four. I think the adults were louder than the kids. Since it was Michael and my game, we were boasting that we were going to win. It ended up that we didn't, but we came in second place. Everyone had fun. We didn't leave there until after midnight.
This is just a picture of a sunrise on the way to church last Sunday. It's ten o'clock and the sun isn't even above the horizon. It sets at three. That gives us a total of five hours of daylight. We're less than a month away from the shortest day of the year.