It's been quite a long time since last I posted, so here's our Christmas update! Festivities started with the tree hunt. We dawned the snow shoes and headlamps and tromped into the woods just outside of town. We called and whooshed, imitating the sounds of wild trees, hoping the perfect tree would show itself through the snowy moonlight. Sure enough, it did. The spruce tree shined in a beacon of moon glow, so Tyler commenced the cutting. After a few scrapes and vocal 'ouchies' from the poky nature of the spruce needles, the tree was ours! We dragged our conquered stick of wood home.
Once home, we decorated it like a true Barenjager tree, complete with chili pepper lights on the top, and new LED lights below. The LEDs are pretty intense. Don't stare directly at the light.
A few days later, I decided it was time for a festive cookies. These are holly cookies that some old biddy of Tyler's from back in Iowa used to make for him. I don't know who she is, I just know she's old, and still tries to send him these things every year. They didn't come this year, so to prevent saddness, I created! Shazam! They're pretty tasty.
We made it to Colorado and back for Christmas, but sadly no digital pictures to share of the fun. We did manage to get stuck at the Seattle airport for the solstice. Damn Washington snow in December. I grew up wishing for a white christmas, hoping for snow, and the one year it comes it completely gets in the way. We spent a day and a half waiting on stand-by lists to get out of Seattle and actually see the family. Thank goodness we made it, after the most uncomfortable night's sleep we've ever had.
These are some post-solstice photos I took from the deck of the SeaLife Center a couple days after we got back. It's actually very windy and cold while I took these pictures, but the water's all steamy and weird, so you can't tell. It was a beautiful moment of sun for the day! And each day we're getting more of it! That's about as high as the sun gets right now, it rises over the mountains on the left, gets that high, then sets over mountains that are on the right. It makes for some beautiful bright pink colors on the snow. But it means you can't actually feel the heat from the sun's rays if you're standing in it. We have about a 1 degree difference in temperature from the middle of the night to the middle of the day. And we've had winds above 70 mph this week, so with the windchill factor, we're reaching the negative double digits in freezing temps. Adventure!
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