ok, well maybe not home home, but I will be with family!! I am going to be at my sister's house, which I am excited. I fly to Denver a week from today, and then Mitch flies from Las Vegas to Denver two weeks from today. So we only have two weeks left of being apart. Man, it has been long and hard but we are so close to seeing eachother. One of my ( Read more... )

yeah, the packing has began, and i remember how much i hate packing. some of you might be wondering why i am packing?? well, my hubby has been offered a job at lake mead national recreation area in the vegas area, so we are moving down there so he can have a job he loves. we found out october 15, and have been planning the move since then.. mitch ( Read more... )

well, its been 2 weeks since the big day!! it was so much fun having everyone here for a little over 2 weeks... there were some stressful times when it was just stressful because i didn't have enough sleep. we threw out everyone the thursday night before the wedding, and got to sleep about 10 hours, which made a world of difference. I just had so ( Read more... )

so the summer has been flying by... Workign with kids has made me so happy and tired at the same time. i love my job! i have been seeing bears, moose, salmon.. to name a few! the thesis stuff has been going well. i realized i have spent about 5-10 hours a week on the thesis so that makes me feel good ( Read more... )

So i had a very relaxed weekend, did a lot of outdoorsy stuff. On Friday night I went camping with my work people, it was the last day of staff training. I am working for a Day Camp in Anchorage, which will be fun. I am also working on my thesis this summer, doing the data collection. My study is to see it campers show an increase of ( Read more... )

So I have finished my first year of grad school today!! This was a busy week, I was also battling a head cold for the week. I had a curriculum book due on Monday (20 lessons), then 8 more lessons due on Wednesday. I had a quiz today in Conservation Biology, a group project due and then a lab!! That professor likes to make us work to the last hour ( Read more... )

Spring time has arrived, but not here. It snowed yesterday, thankfully only 1-2 inches but still, SNOW!! we still have 2 and a half feet of snow in our backyard, i am just hoping its gone by august!! hehehe, i know it will be but still!! spring needs to arrive here ( Read more... )

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and you can probably guess what i said!! YES!!!!! we have been talking about it for a while so i knew he was going to ask but i didn't know when. we were driving up to the artic ski valley to see if we wanted to rent the lodge for the possible wedding. we pulled over for a photo oppertunity, and he got down onto one knee and asked me to marry him. ( Read more... )

my moose count has just been increased to 11, and mitch's has gone from 8 to 13. He saw 5 moose TODAY!! and the last two were outside our house, two houses down the road. The momma moose hopped over a 4 foot like it was an inch high. we could also see her ears above the truck's roof!! i knew that we would see moose behind out house but two infront ( Read more... )