This year for New Year's Eve we rented a cabin at a lake about 35 miles south of the base. It is kind of in the middle of nowhere. The cabin had electricity but no heating. We thought it sounded like a fun little adventure. There were some festivities at the main lodge. Sorry it was dark most of the time that we were there(it is Alaska in the winter!) so the pictures aren't great.

While playing around outside with a bunch of kids, Nick got kicked and lost his very loose tooth. I am glad for the kid that kicked him so that I didn't have to pull it out!

We set off lots of fireworks. The Northern Lights were absolutely amazing that night. I tried and tried to get pictures of them, but I couldn't. It was too dark to see any of the buttons on my camera and too cold to take my gloves off to try to move things around.

Here is our cabin in the daylight. It was a one room place. Curtis and the boys brought in stacks of wood to keep loading into the woodstove. We stayed toasty warm. It was also unseasonably warm outside as well. It was 11 degrees(ABOVE!!!!) at midnight.

Curtis has a stack of sparklers for all of the kids. And adults.

Caleb writing his name.

The boys playing outside. It felt so good out there compared to what it has been lately.

Megan played outside but when the fireworks started she took off to the lodge to get away from the noise.

Our friends brought up some snowmobiles. We had tons of fun riding around on those. There was a lake that we could drive across. The next day Caleb saw that the ground that we had been on was a lake, and he was a bit freaked out that he had been on top of the water. Our weekend was great. It was definitely our favorite Alaskan New Year's Eve.