frostbite, Sienna, new famiy Dias member

February is the coldest month of the year for the Yukon. No one knows this better than those who came in last night finishing of the legendary dog sled race called Yukon Quest. When sledders had started in Fairbanks Alaska it was close to -70 with wind chill, forcing a record amount of participants to fall out of the race. For those of you who don't know about Frostbite, it's a big festival that happens in February. One of the big events just happened to be held at the college where I work security. It was interesting for me seeing as I was all by myself for college staff and there so few frostbit staff that where watching the door ways. One staff member backed me up on one occurrence but that was the extent of it. I'm thankful that most of the students in the dorms where away for the weekend, other wise I really would be running around like a chicken with my head cut off. So now that Frostbite and Yukon Quest has come to a close we now have the Rendezvous festival to look forward to. Rendezvous is part of the Yukon`s character just like the other 2, and with contests like chain saw throwing, flour packing, and of course the Rendezvous queens one can't help but find the humour in what us Yukoners do for fun, especially when it's -40 like it was last year.

Sienna now has 6 teeth, the top 2 are growing in now. Sienna started off getting incredibly excited about a sucker. Out of fun I said say please first, and low and behold the little monkey made a fierce attempt at saying it. We only have her do it for now when she has anything that would constitute as a treat, and when we do we would get a little eeez!

Our friends Tara and Donovan`s baby Asher Thomas Dias has blessed the world on Monday February 18th. At a healthy 7 lbs 4 oz Asher is such a little cutie, we have yet to see him except in pictures on facebook. We where going to see them on the evening Asher was born, but later thought it might be a little too invasive. We`ll just wait till they get home with little Asher to harass the family. When Bryan told me he was born I was almost in tears, thinking back to when I had Sanora and Sienna. Bringing a new life into the world is an amazing thing, and the smile on Tara`s face says it all.