Family Photo Shoot

Family Photo Shoot Time

I took these from a make shift tripod in our backyard for our Christmas Cards

turned out pretty good considering, in my opinion :)

Megan being bossy :)

Home Again

We made it back home and are happy to be with our daddy again! This week has been eventful and relaxing all at the same time. Casey has been home all day everyday and the girls are in heaven....I got a job and had my first day yesterday! It's a bookkeeping position for a local builder, only two days a week with some stuff to do from home as well, I am totally excited because Casey will be home to watch the girls for one of those days and then they will go to a friends house for the other day. I think it will work out great and be really good for all of us.
With the extra time I've had this week I finally got around to finishing the inside of the kitchen cabinets. I decided on a dark blue/grey and white contact paper on the shelves. I love how it turned out :)

the paint was still a little wet so it dried with a satin finish instead of glossy.

Now I have to decide what color to paint my blank wall........so many decisions!

Change

It seems as if the world is always changing. It happens all around us, seasons come and go, children grow up, people come into our lives and leave yet; here I am, still me. I'm still struggling with my own weaknesses, arguing about the same things, and wishing the same wishes. Is is possible to really change? To honestly not want the things you always have or stumble over the same rock on the same corner? The world tells us to be happy with who you are, to never think you're not perfect, you were born this way. All good advice, maybe. But I want more. I want to change what I don't like about myself, I want to strive for perfection, I want to have more and be better than what I was born with. Is that too much to ask? To hard to achieve? I don't think so and hopefully this year I can come a little closer, and bring my family with me.

Embarking

The house is quiet.....something it hasn't been for quite some time. This morning I shipped Casey off to Kotzebue, my family back to Washington, and the girls have finally fallen asleep.

Casey is scheduled to be gone until the 27th of this month and the girls and I are leaving for Washington until the 24th. Our little house will be so lonely in the cold dark of winter and how ironic is it that I'm headed to South West Washington for some sun and warmer temps?

The crazy traveling and not planning ahead farther than a month has officially begun and I'm already tired. Maybe that's just my huge lack of Vitamin D..... either way I'm looking forward to when my little family will be back together again. And I am going to miss the snow and my mountains, not so much the negative 3 temperature.

Embarking on yet another adventure, whoever said family life would be boring and monotonous??

Snow Again

These are the days that I am so grateful we live in such a beautiful place. I'm also in love with cross country skiing. I've only done it twice but I would be ready to make it my lifetime passion, the quiet, the snow, the cold, the scenery.

Mt. Susitna

Reindeer Farm

There is a great place to go see Santa, feed some reindeer and a moose, and do some sledding... The Reindeer Farm. It was a ton of fun!

Turnagain Arm

We drove south of Anchorage along the Turnagain Arm to see what we could see. And we found these guys.

And of course beautiful scenery

The Anchorage Temple, you can learn more about it and other LDS Temples HERE