Perfect Alaskan Evening...

The pictures from Top to bottom: Sherri and I, Me exploring, Sherri of the Valley, The view of Downtown Anchorage from where we were hiking, wild blueberries that we were eating.

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Last night Sherri and I decided to spend some time outside. We went to Flattop Mountain and hiked around on some of the trails. It was a beautiful evening and we had such a great time being outside in the "wild". We also bought a new camera recently and wanted to try it out. Here are a bunch of pictures from our adventure last night.

Enjoy!!!

Thoughts from a hotel room...

Howdy -

I'm writing this from Fairbanks, Alaska. I have been traveling lot lately, only been home for 2 nights in the past week. I go home tomorrow and I will be home for a few weeks! I'm very excited about that!!

I wanted to write this and give you a few updates on us...

First, and most importantly...as of late last week we are totally credit card debt free! We paid off my car, and all of our credit cards!! It feels SO nice!! I received a great unexpected bonus from work and we decided to use that to get out of debt! Between the car payment and credit card payments we are able to save about $600 more a month!! What a huge blessing that is!! It is so nice to be able to move forward without the "chains of debt" that so many people are tied to.

We have both been staying busy with work. We are really looking forward to a 3 day holiday weekend to just relax! Last weekend we went to the Alaska State Fair with friends and had a really great time!! It was perfect weather, 70's and sunny, and combine that with friends and great fair food, how can you go wrong?

We have our anniversary coming up in under a month and we have a pretty awesome weekend planned for that! I will post more as the day gets closer.

A few random things....

our church launched a new webpage, check it out at www.changepointalaska.com

I have been doing a lot of research into the upcoming presidential election and have been VERY impressed with Mike Huckabee. I don't know if I have ever seen a politician that I am as impressed with as him. http://youtube.com/watch?v=3sdZY3oSupU
check out that video clip of him. I think you will be impressed!!

What A Day!!!

Today was the Annual "Fantasy Football Draft Day" for Tim, Jason and I, and the Annual "Spend our husband's money day" for the wives. The day started for Sherri and I at about 7:30am when we woke up to put the buffalo wings in the oven. We arrived at Tim & Jana's at 9:15, had breakfast and the ladies left to start their day. Our draft started at 10am and lasted till about 4pm. It was 6 hours of uninterupted football, buffalo wings, snacks and all around "guy stuff". The ladies got manicures and pedicures, went shopping at Pier 1 and Michael's to get craft projects, they had lunch and went and saw the new movie "Becoming Jane". The ladies had a great day, and us guys had an awesome time at the draft! I feel very good about my team this year!!

So, just how good was my day you ask? Well..I had my first buffalo wing at 8:30 this morning, and it is now just after midnight and I have just had the last of the wings. So, yeah, it was pretty awesome!

Oh How We Love CAKE!!

Last weekend Sherri, Me, Jason, Jana, John and Ashley went and saw the band Cake in concert. Cake was pretty big in the 90's and early 2000's with songs "The Distance", "Love You Madly" and "Short Skirt, Long Jacket". This was an event for the 11th Anniversary of Mooses Tooth, the most amazing pizza joint in Anchorage. There were 3,000 people there for the event and it was AWESOME!! Cake was amazing, such a good live band! It was a beautiful sunny day and I just dont know how it could have been any better!!!

We love it, it's perfect, don't change...

Last night Sherri and I went with Jason and Jana and saw a production of "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change". It was the first time that Sherri and I had seen it. It was SO great and we highly recommend it!! It is currently the longest running off-broadway musical. It documents the different stages of relationships, from dating, to marriage, children and empty nesters. It was so funny and the cast was awesome!! There are only 4 cast members but they play a total of over 60 roles!! It is very creative and anyone who has ever been in a relationship can certianly relate to several of the situations!! You can check out more info on this play at www.loveperfectchange.com