A snowy Alaskan night. . .

Christmas, 2 below zero weather, parades and fireworks!  Yep!  You read right!  We do fireworks at Christmas in Alaska.  Ashley went to her first parade ever.  No, she didn't go out in the below zero weather.  Ashley, Nick, Amy and I sat in the truck to watch the annual Christmas parade while Warren, Cameron and Clayton braved the cold to gather the candy.  There were some neat floats this year.  One was a hot tub that they had on a trailer and hooked up so that it worked.  Santa seemed to be enjoying it.  After going home to eat some supper we went back for the fireworks.  It's rather fun to watch fireworks in the snow and with Christmas carols playing. Every time a firework would go off Nick and Amy would say, "Splat!  Splat!"  It was fun listening to them.