HAHA!

I just want to let you all know that you have more snow than we do.

Man that felt good :)

Leaving for Hawaii tonight......Happy New Year everyone!

Chopping Down Our First Tree! And New Apt Pics

We went to pick out and cut down our first Christmas tree!

Found one!

Unfortunately, it looked MUCH fuller when it was covered in snow. Now that it's cleared off and in our apartment, it looks like an elongated Charlie Brown tree. Woops! We learned our lesson for next year.

Here are the "after" pictures of the apartment that only took 4 months to put up!

The recliner is usually in the corner where the tree is. It looks much better there, but has a new home for a few weeks.

Our living room table lol

The second bedroom has been my dumping grounds for school work this semester - y0u don't want to see that right now. One of my projects over winter break is to get that room in order.

:)

let me know if you want to see this and I'll email it to you....I'll explain then :)

Poor Guy

I can't see!!!!

Glaciers & Moose!

Driving south on the highway

The cave inside!

Glacier icicle..yum!

haha

Blue ice!

Inside the glacier looking out

Drinking the glacier water

The other side of the cave

And these moose (a mom and her calf) were just chillin outside our building one night when I got home from class. I took the pictures on my cell phone so they didn't come out so good, but the mom was HUGE!

The mom is to the right; that fence is over 6 feet tall and she's leaning over it like it's nothing. The calf is over to the left of the picture.

Here's a closer picture of the "baby." Once it made eye contact and the flash went off I got paranoid that the mom was going to charge the car and kill me (it really happens) so I stopped. Again, that's our building they're standing right outside of. Needless to say, poor Rudy did not get walked that night.

Cory's 25th

Cory's 25th birthday was last week and while I didn't get any pictures of us (woops....) I did take pictures of the cake and sushi cupcakes I made!

He wouldn't let us sing to him but I insisted on at least blowing out candles.

Old man ;)

Random Pictures

I had such an amazing weekend in California for Trisha & Josh's wedding! Everything was beautiful, and it was so nice to see (almost) everyone!

Now back to the cold reality of Alaska! It is currently about 34 degrees with a chance of snow later on. The leaves are pretty much all gone from the trees now, but they were beautiful when they turned! Here are some pictures from about a month ago when we went to Eklutna Lake:

Rudy clearly enjoyed himself

I'm starting to notice a trend with all of our pictures together. We thought about actually asking someone to take the picture for us, but that seemed too easy.

A few weeks ago I got to go on a field trip with one of the classes I'm observing to see Byron Glacier down in Girdwood. It was so cool! Although it made me very sad to learn that the glacier has retreated (aka shrunk) about 3 and a half miles in only 90 years. :( And apparently not too long ago it used to touch the edge of the parking lot near the visitor's center and now you have to hike about a mile and a half into the woods to reach it. Still, it was an awesome experience!

Chunks of ice floating in the water!!