BIRTHDAYS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHUA!!

DEEP Breath...

OKay... so took my finals today, and I am so thankful that I have so many people that support me. Thank you for all my prayers, I am so happy to have those classes done with, but following today I start working tomorrow, and then Wednesday I start my second summer session classes. So I was able to take one deep breath and that was about it.

Tomorrow morning I start working on base at one of the childcare centers. I am really excited because I love working with kids...I mean I get paid to play ALL day long! I will be taking night classes as well as online. So I will still be extremely busy for the next five weeks, but for tonight I am going to be a bum with Kingston on the couch!

SAVE THE DATE...I will be flying into Tampa airport on Oct 27 at 8am!

elephants can run after all

So as of Saturday afternoon I am a runner...

Never in my life have I run in a race, or more than a mile at a time, it is a sad thing to admit but it is true. I just never was blessed with being a natural runner.

Well all that changed come Saturday when an opportunity came about to be a part of my new community. The women's 5 mile run took place downtown anchorage with over 7,000 women running to raise money for breast cancer.

There were brief moments when I was able to enjoy myself while we were running along the coastline and look up and take in the beautiful mountains that ran along with us. Those moments were only possible because my good friend Carrie was dragging me along through the race. And it is only because of her that I was able to run the 5 miles in an hour. She was the perfect cheerleader, and several other women ran behind me to get the motivate from Carrie as well.

After we reached the end I felt so good...was sore for the rest of the weekend, and I am sure Josh is tried of me walking around like a frail old grandmother, but I am so happy that I did it, and am so thankful for Carrie!

Blog...what's that?

So I am super busy in school with a sickness on top. I haven't been able to blog or put photos up, and I am sorry. I will get around to it this week because I want to share how pretty it is now. I remember before we moved up here I would try to google stuff about anchorage's summers and what they are really like but always came up short, I couldn't understand.

Well now I know why, the summers are amazing and after being inside for more than 7 months, everybody is outside enjoying themselves. Summer in Alaska is true paradise, and it is America's hidden secret. With weather in the mid 50's-60's (except for last weekend it was 70's) and the sun shinning all day ( and by all day I mean it never sets), there are endless things to do.

Alaskans really make up for lost time from the winter during the summer. Your neighbor is mowing the lawn at 9pm at night with the sun high in the sky, seasonal depression is out the window and everybody has taken the stick out of there you know what, and is using them for bonfires.

I would say the perfect time to come visit Alaska is in June. All the snow is dried up and the trees and plants take their place.

Check back and hopefully I will have some photos uploaded! :)

Flip of a switch

So summer is here and it doesn't even seem like anchorage to me anymore. We have gone from shoveling snow and scraping ice, to mowing the lawn and picking weeds. Well really when I say our lawn I mean weeds.

At first I was so excited, all these little yellow flowers were popping up all over Alaska, and we personally had a ton growing in our yard...the most in the neighborhood. We had finally succeeded at something, having the most and prettiest yard full of flowers. Well soon to find out nobody else had these in their yard besides us.

The flowers knew that I had a soft spot in my heart for color and they took advantage of me, and told all their other little flower friends to come to our yard because I wasn't killing them. Well I am on to the little flowers now, who's true colors came out to me...that the little yellow flowers were a victim of identity theft...they weren't really flowers but WEEDS!

So we no longer have weeds...and come to think of it we don't really have grass either.