Here is a local news story from this week that involves the company that Sherri works for!
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11411984
You can just read the text of the story or you can actually watch the video of the story on that page ( I recommend the video)
Good job TecPro!!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
It's almost November already?!?
Hello Internet Friends and Family!!
We hope that you are having a great Fall and that October has treated you well!!
We are doing great! Our house is all decorated for the season, we have our pumpkins carved and our Halloween costumes all picked out (pictures to be posted later).
Sherri has been doing well, she battled a cold last week but he is feeling better now! Work is going good for her and she is still really enjoying her job! We recently came across some papers of companies that she sent applications in to when she was looking for a job last time, and just looking over them made us SO much more thankful that she ended up where she did. Work can be a little slow for her at times but being with a company where she feels respected and is often encouraged and praised by the people around her makes all of the difference.
Work for me is going good as well, we actually had a strong summer season despite a drop in tourism thanks to the national economy. Our hotels stayed mostly full and I am very thankful that we didn't see the decline that many hotels did. Lately I have been busy volunteering time at ChangePoint, our church, heading up our Social Networking ventures. This includes Facebook, Twitter and an amazing new program that we are still beta-testing that allows people to access virtual bulletins via iPhone, Blackberry or computer from anywhere. It is pretty awesome to be able to have all of the sermon slides, verses, notes and calendar info right there with you. We recently launched a new Facebook page for the church and after less than a week we have over 400 "fans" and we have a campaign in place to get to 1,000 (look at the fun new gadget here on the right side of our blog that follows along with the Facebook page)!! I really enjoy social networking and social media so this has been a perfect fit for me!!
We are still enjoying working with the 4 year old's at church, each week that we serve we have so much fun and really learn to love how trusting and honest they are at that age.
We booked our trip to Indiana in December and we are both looking forward to it! We will be there from December 7 - 15!! We are looking forward to seeing as many people as we can and enjoying time with family!
This weekend we are doing our annual Halloween Party with our friends. The theme each year is "things that go together", so you could be a famous couple, or a pair. In years past we went as a plug and an outlet and Gilligan and the skipper. We can't reveal our costumes, however we think that this will be our best one yet. We will post pictures after the party!!
We still don't have any snow! Watching the news reports of snow in places like Minnesota, Denver and the East Coast has left me feeling a little bit left out!! There was a chance of snow last night, but it never happened, SO, it appears that we may be into November before we get our first snow because they are forecasting several days of clearing and sunshine now.
That's all for now, we hope that you have a great Halloween and enjoy what is left of the Fall season!!
We hope that you are having a great Fall and that October has treated you well!!
We are doing great! Our house is all decorated for the season, we have our pumpkins carved and our Halloween costumes all picked out (pictures to be posted later).
Sherri has been doing well, she battled a cold last week but he is feeling better now! Work is going good for her and she is still really enjoying her job! We recently came across some papers of companies that she sent applications in to when she was looking for a job last time, and just looking over them made us SO much more thankful that she ended up where she did. Work can be a little slow for her at times but being with a company where she feels respected and is often encouraged and praised by the people around her makes all of the difference.
Work for me is going good as well, we actually had a strong summer season despite a drop in tourism thanks to the national economy. Our hotels stayed mostly full and I am very thankful that we didn't see the decline that many hotels did. Lately I have been busy volunteering time at ChangePoint, our church, heading up our Social Networking ventures. This includes Facebook, Twitter and an amazing new program that we are still beta-testing that allows people to access virtual bulletins via iPhone, Blackberry or computer from anywhere. It is pretty awesome to be able to have all of the sermon slides, verses, notes and calendar info right there with you. We recently launched a new Facebook page for the church and after less than a week we have over 400 "fans" and we have a campaign in place to get to 1,000 (look at the fun new gadget here on the right side of our blog that follows along with the Facebook page)!! I really enjoy social networking and social media so this has been a perfect fit for me!!
We are still enjoying working with the 4 year old's at church, each week that we serve we have so much fun and really learn to love how trusting and honest they are at that age.
We booked our trip to Indiana in December and we are both looking forward to it! We will be there from December 7 - 15!! We are looking forward to seeing as many people as we can and enjoying time with family!
This weekend we are doing our annual Halloween Party with our friends. The theme each year is "things that go together", so you could be a famous couple, or a pair. In years past we went as a plug and an outlet and Gilligan and the skipper. We can't reveal our costumes, however we think that this will be our best one yet. We will post pictures after the party!!
We still don't have any snow! Watching the news reports of snow in places like Minnesota, Denver and the East Coast has left me feeling a little bit left out!! There was a chance of snow last night, but it never happened, SO, it appears that we may be into November before we get our first snow because they are forecasting several days of clearing and sunshine now.
That's all for now, we hope that you have a great Halloween and enjoy what is left of the Fall season!!
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Moose in our back yard!!
Today we had 3 moose in our back yard and I got a short video of them that I thought you would enjoy!! Ahh, life in Alaska!
4 Years Already?!?!?
I know that this post is a couple of weeks late, but better late then never, right?
So late last month we celebrated our 4th wedding Anniversary. It is hard to believe that it has already been 4 years! The time has flown by. Our anniversary celebration kind of stretched over several days, so here is what we did.
On our actual anniversary we made a great dinner at home. It included filet's, Alaskan King Crab, fingerling potatoes with onions and an awesome anniversary cake that Sherri made.
Here is a photo of the King Crab for dinner.
For anniversary gifts this year we decided that since we already have a lot of "stuff" and that we really feel fortunate that we have good paying jobs that we love and have been blessed financially, that instead of just buying things and adding to our ever growing collection of stuff, we wanted to find a creative way to leverage the resources that we would have spent on gifts for ourselves, and give that away to someone who needed it. So, we had the idea, that since the traditional 4th anniversary gifts are fruit and flowers, that we would go onto Kiva.org, a micro-finance website that we use and love, and see if we could find someone around the world who was trying to start a business that related to fruit or flowers that we could assist and give the money to them. Well, we found the perfect people to donate to! One of them is a single mother of 5 in Peru who runs a fruit stand in her village and the other group is from Uganda and they grow and sell fruit to several merchants around their area. It worked out awesome! The feeling that we got and the memory that we made giving rather than hoarding is such a powerful thing. It truly is better to give than to receive.
The weekend after our anniversary we found an amazing deal at the Marriott downtown and we stayed there for 2 nights. It worked out perfect because we actually had a concert and wine tasting downtown Friday night and then Saturday night we had dinner downtown and then went and saw The Lion King. Staying downtown let us be close to our activities and it gave us a great couple days "away" and we were able to read, relax and just enjoy being together.
A quick Lion King review. It is amazing. If it is ever near you, GO SEE IT!! We have been fortunate to see quite a few shows over the past few years and we both agree that this was the most amazing production that we have ever seen, BY FAR!!
So late last month we celebrated our 4th wedding Anniversary. It is hard to believe that it has already been 4 years! The time has flown by. Our anniversary celebration kind of stretched over several days, so here is what we did.
On our actual anniversary we made a great dinner at home. It included filet's, Alaskan King Crab, fingerling potatoes with onions and an awesome anniversary cake that Sherri made.
Here is a photo of the King Crab for dinner.
For anniversary gifts this year we decided that since we already have a lot of "stuff" and that we really feel fortunate that we have good paying jobs that we love and have been blessed financially, that instead of just buying things and adding to our ever growing collection of stuff, we wanted to find a creative way to leverage the resources that we would have spent on gifts for ourselves, and give that away to someone who needed it. So, we had the idea, that since the traditional 4th anniversary gifts are fruit and flowers, that we would go onto Kiva.org, a micro-finance website that we use and love, and see if we could find someone around the world who was trying to start a business that related to fruit or flowers that we could assist and give the money to them. Well, we found the perfect people to donate to! One of them is a single mother of 5 in Peru who runs a fruit stand in her village and the other group is from Uganda and they grow and sell fruit to several merchants around their area. It worked out awesome! The feeling that we got and the memory that we made giving rather than hoarding is such a powerful thing. It truly is better to give than to receive.
The weekend after our anniversary we found an amazing deal at the Marriott downtown and we stayed there for 2 nights. It worked out perfect because we actually had a concert and wine tasting downtown Friday night and then Saturday night we had dinner downtown and then went and saw The Lion King. Staying downtown let us be close to our activities and it gave us a great couple days "away" and we were able to read, relax and just enjoy being together.
A quick Lion King review. It is amazing. If it is ever near you, GO SEE IT!! We have been fortunate to see quite a few shows over the past few years and we both agree that this was the most amazing production that we have ever seen, BY FAR!!
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