Our week: We’ll start with Christmas. Mundane, and good. But woke up with a sinus infection starting. Blech. Blizzard warning out since Friday through Monday afternoon. Sustained winds all weekend of 50 mph. Gusting up to 60. North wind, blowing sea spray onto the village, at or below 0 temps. Sunday: Skip church, don’t feel…

We’ve started a tradition with Levi that the night before Christmas, he can open two presents: one containing PJ’s and the other a book, so he can be all snuggled into bed. This year, thanks to Grandpa Doug and Grandma Deb, we let him open a third that seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Enter…

Outside our kitchen window today, there was a pod of belugas, about 75 feet offshore, just swirling in circles. There must have been about 20-30 of them, just swirling. It was a pretty awesome sight. Keith shot some footage of it; you can see it here.

Introducing the first pictures of baby girl Crawford. We were glad we got pictures. The printer was being tempermental, so we weren’t sure that we would be able to get any pictures before we left Nome. However, the next day we went into Radiology and they were there waiting for us. We still don’t know…