April is still snowy.

It feels like summer will never come up here!! As soon as the snow starts to melt, everyone wakes up with fresh snow on their porch. Winter is taking too long this year. We were planning for a while to go see everyone for Shea's birthday and stay until May 2nd, but we decided with our very hectic schedules that we just can't make it. Which is a bummer, because I'm dying to meet everyone!!


Our dog, Remi :) He's a sweetheart.

My dad forced Shea to hold the Easter flowers. haha.
Jack laying on Bow :) Cutiest.

The boat Shea is working on. The Helenka B.

Aiden playing on his snow machine. toughie in his diaper!

Cade and David. Brotherly love, playing in Grandma's kitchen.

The surprise party I threw for my mom, Anna, and sister, Allison.

Even more pictures of the storm.

Shea just took off up the Inlet again for 5 days. They expect the weather to be alright, put pray for them. The Inlet is notorious for terrible weather.
Here are some pictures of him at his parents house enjoying the snow.

God is so unpredictable! A snow storm in March? Really?

So on Thursday, everyone woke up to three feet of snow at their front door and a blizzard, and Homer saw its first snow day!!! No one could believe it, but I was snowed in for three days because Shea just started working on my dad's freight barge again, so they were up Cook Inlet for 3 days.. So i stayed home scrapbooking, hanging out with my dogs and watching movies until he came home to bail me out. He's leaving again tomorrow (Wednesday) for 5 days! And the snow storm will not stop! This morning Toby (our basset hound) had his dog house 4 feet covered with snow. Needless to say, we're praying it stops so we can see spring sometime soon. Here are pictures!

Didn't buy the house, but went on vacation.

Shea and I decided not to buy the house. We want to wait until we fall in love with a house and everything works out without any problems. So we're staying in our rental until we can build or buy.
We went to Ojai, California in the middle of February for my grandpa's funeral. It was a lot of fun! Shea wet with us two years ago for Spring Break, and met a lot of my big family, but this time he met even more. We took 15 people from Alaska to Cali. My mom had no idea so it was really fun to surprise her!!
We also have a new dog, Remi, who I will post pictures of. He's 2 1/2 and really loving and hopefully by the summer I will have more time to spend with him.

House Update :)

So our offer on the house was ACCEPTED! and we should be closing by the end of Feb/ beginning of March.
We are very very excited!
We also got another dog :) His name is Remi and he is absolutely adorable!

College and a House

So lately we've been extremely busy. I've been working two jobs and taking classes, working on my Elementary teaching degree, while Shea is working on getting the Assistant Manager position at the tire shop. And we've both been making house plans! At first we wanted to build a house, but we just checked out a remodeled house that we really liked, so we're making an offer on it next week! We are both extremely excited. As are Carol and Lynn.
We don't have pictures or anything, but if we get the house I will post pictures asap :)

New Years and New Goals.

So our New Years was extremely fun! We have a tradition; every year we go to Caribou Lake on our snow machines with my cousins and hundreds of other people, and we set off 4 hours of fireworks!! It was fabulous!
2010 also means a lot of work for us to do. I start classes on Monday to start on my Elementary Ed. degree, (it was really great to take a Semester off and get grounded first), and Shea has decided he wants to go back to work for my dad asap so we can get in to a house this summer. Our 2010 goals: *get a house, *get Shea a new car, *get another dog so Toby (our adorable basset hound) has a friend to play with. and *make tons of money by winning the lottery :)
here are pictures!