Hi!
So we have been terrible about updating this blog. We kind of assume that most of our "readers" are on Facebook and are already aware of the happenings of our life. But we will try and be better about updating this, at least monthly.
The BIG news for us is that we are celebrating our 5 year anniversary in a couple of weeks!
Can you believe it? 5 years already! Amazing!
Time has really gone by quickly!
For our anniversary we are taking a few days and heading down to Seward, Alaska. It is a beautiful little town, somewhat of a seaside oasis and a really perfect place to get away and relax.
We found a GREAT B&B that we are going to stay in: The Alaska Paddle Inn
It is one of the highest reviewed B&B's in the state on Trip Advisor and we are looking forward to our time there!
Work continues to go great for both of us. I am really enjoying my new position at ChangePoint and have had no regrets about making the switch. Everyone that I work with is amazing and I really look forward to going to work each day! What a blessing! Work for Sherri is good, they have had a slower summer than expected, but it has allowed them to get work done around the office, so that has been nice. She continues to work 5 days a week, but will probably go back to get 3 day a week winter schedule before too long.
We are also enjoying a great streak of weather! We had a beautiful start to our summer and are having a beautiful end, but most of the middle was full of rain and clouds, so the current sunshine is much appreciated!
That's all for now! More later!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Job Change!!
Hi Everyone -
I (adam) am changing jobs!! This is a BIG change for us and I blogged about it over on my other site.
Read all about the change: HERE
I (adam) am changing jobs!! This is a BIG change for us and I blogged about it over on my other site.
Read all about the change: HERE
Friday, June 18, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Summer is here!
Hi!!
I am SO sorry that I have done such a poor job over the last couple of months keeping up with this blog!
Summer is upon us and we have been staying quite busy!
We have already had several days in the 70's and a lot of sun over the past month! It really feels like summer is upon us! We have all of our flowers planted and everything is green and blooming!
We spent Memorial Day weekend at a cabin on Nancy Lake and enjoyed a couple of days away with 7 other friends! We swam in the lake, enjoyed camp food and laughed a TON!
Sherri has been getting busy at work and is now working 5 days a week. Work for me has been going great! My hotels have been full since early May and the busy summer tourist season is really upon us. I was in Fairbanks last week for 3 days on a work trip and I will probably be heading to Juneau in the next couple of weeks as well.
Next weekend (Summer Solstice) we are staying in town and will be enjoying all of the summer solstice festivals and concerts that are happening around town. Summer Solstice is a BIG deal here in Alaska and there are always a lot of things going on that weekend.
The following weekend we are borrowing a friends motor home and driving to Homer for the weekend with 2 other couples! We sill be going out fishing and enjoying the ocean and scenery in Homer! It will be another nice 2 day getaway!
We are really trying to get out and enjoy as much of Alaska as possible this summer. Most weekends we are busy with trips or events and I will try and keep this blog updated as we travel around and enjoy summer!
Here is a photo of one of our flower beds this summer:
I am SO sorry that I have done such a poor job over the last couple of months keeping up with this blog!
Summer is upon us and we have been staying quite busy!
We have already had several days in the 70's and a lot of sun over the past month! It really feels like summer is upon us! We have all of our flowers planted and everything is green and blooming!
We spent Memorial Day weekend at a cabin on Nancy Lake and enjoyed a couple of days away with 7 other friends! We swam in the lake, enjoyed camp food and laughed a TON!
Sherri has been getting busy at work and is now working 5 days a week. Work for me has been going great! My hotels have been full since early May and the busy summer tourist season is really upon us. I was in Fairbanks last week for 3 days on a work trip and I will probably be heading to Juneau in the next couple of weeks as well.
Next weekend (Summer Solstice) we are staying in town and will be enjoying all of the summer solstice festivals and concerts that are happening around town. Summer Solstice is a BIG deal here in Alaska and there are always a lot of things going on that weekend.
The following weekend we are borrowing a friends motor home and driving to Homer for the weekend with 2 other couples! We sill be going out fishing and enjoying the ocean and scenery in Homer! It will be another nice 2 day getaway!
We are really trying to get out and enjoy as much of Alaska as possible this summer. Most weekends we are busy with trips or events and I will try and keep this blog updated as we travel around and enjoy summer!
Here is a photo of one of our flower beds this summer:
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
1/2 through April?!
Wow, I can not believe how fast time is flying! Can you believe that we are almost 1/3 of the way through 2010?
A lot has happened since our last blog, so here are the highlights!
I will try and update this more often!
A lot has happened since our last blog, so here are the highlights!
- I turned 30! Sherri, Mom and Susan surprised me with an AMAZING birthday party on April 3rd at Mom's house! I was shocked! I couldn't believe the number of people who came, people from every era of my life, it was so perfect!
- We also had our annual "co-birthday celebration" for Jason and I. We rented a limo and it took us to the Double Musky in Girdwood, it is one of the best restaurants in Alaska and has a pepper steak that the Food Network called the Best in America. What a fun night!
- The Easter Art show that Sherri and I participated in went GREAT! On Friday night (actual night of the show) we had about 500 people come through and then the pieces stayed up all weekend during the church services, so an additional 5,500 people got to see them! A few of our pieces actually sold and the response that we got was wonderful! We are already planning the next 2 art shows!
- I launched a new blog! It is called Faith.Life.Media. and you can check it out HERE .
- For the past couple months we have been taking a course at church called "Maximum Marriage" and it just ended this week. It has been awesome and we are very glad that we took it!
I will try and update this more often!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
World Ice Art Championships - 2010
I was recently in Fairbanks for work and while I was there I went to the World Ice Art Championships! This was my first time going to them and they were AMAZING! Enjoy this video of my time there. The video doesn't even come close to doing these carvings justice. Just amazing. And cold.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Has it really been 3 weeks since our last post?!
Hello Faithful Readers!
I apologize for our lack of posting the past few weeks but here is an update on what we have been up to.
We had a great Valentines Day! We continued our tradition of staying in and making a great dinner for just the two of us. This year we had filet's and lobster! This was our first attempt at cooking live lobster and it went great! Everything turned out good and we had a nice evening together!
Our weight loss goal is continuing to move forward, together we have lost 13.4 pounds this year! Also, we think that number will grow over the next 40 days because we decided, along with our best friends, to give up eating out at restaurants for Lent! This actually will be tougher than it seems, I bet we eat out 4 or 5 times a week on average. Most of our friends are young couples with no kids so it is easy to get together and go out for dinners. So far it has been going really well! We are doing dinners with friends at our homes on Friday and Saturday nights and Sherri and I are doing our dinners together at home the rest of the week. It is allowing us to test new recipes and eat healthier than we have been! I am actually looking forward to the next few weeks, although I must admit, we are looking forward to going out for sushi as soon as this is over :o)
Finally, we have both been busy with an upcoming art project. Anchorage is a VERY artsy town and the first friday of every month they have what is called the First Friday Art Walk, where all of the galleries around town stay open late and have a featured artist, and food and music and wine and it is just a great night to go around and see lots of great art. Well, the first friday in April happens to be Good Friday. Our church has a really great Artist Community and they came up with the idea, what if we told the Easter story through art. The idea came when one of the leaders of the group was in Venice, Italy and was touring the old churches, she saw that it was the art in the churches that told the story and she thought, why cant it be like that again? SO, thus "The Easter Project" was born. Basically if you are an artist, of any medium: painting, drawing, music, photography, poetry, graffiti, visual arts, or anything else, you take a verse, or an idea from the Easter story and create a piece based on that. When we get all of the pieces together in order you will be able to walk through the show and see the entire story, from beginning to end displayed through dozens of art pieces. So, on Good Friday we are having a big art show at church and then the pieces will stay up and be displayed all through Easter weekend so thousands of people will get to see this! Sherri and I are VERY excited about this project! It looks like we are entering 4 pieces to the show, 2 each, and we will post pictures and updates as we begin to create!
Work is still going well for both of us, I will begin traveling more (2 trips in the next month) but it will be nice to build the air mile account back up!
Finally, we are experiencing a VERY warm February! We have had several days in the 40's and a lot of snow has been melting, Feb is normally our coldest month, so this is a very nice break
I apologize for our lack of posting the past few weeks but here is an update on what we have been up to.
We had a great Valentines Day! We continued our tradition of staying in and making a great dinner for just the two of us. This year we had filet's and lobster! This was our first attempt at cooking live lobster and it went great! Everything turned out good and we had a nice evening together!
Our weight loss goal is continuing to move forward, together we have lost 13.4 pounds this year! Also, we think that number will grow over the next 40 days because we decided, along with our best friends, to give up eating out at restaurants for Lent! This actually will be tougher than it seems, I bet we eat out 4 or 5 times a week on average. Most of our friends are young couples with no kids so it is easy to get together and go out for dinners. So far it has been going really well! We are doing dinners with friends at our homes on Friday and Saturday nights and Sherri and I are doing our dinners together at home the rest of the week. It is allowing us to test new recipes and eat healthier than we have been! I am actually looking forward to the next few weeks, although I must admit, we are looking forward to going out for sushi as soon as this is over :o)
Finally, we have both been busy with an upcoming art project. Anchorage is a VERY artsy town and the first friday of every month they have what is called the First Friday Art Walk, where all of the galleries around town stay open late and have a featured artist, and food and music and wine and it is just a great night to go around and see lots of great art. Well, the first friday in April happens to be Good Friday. Our church has a really great Artist Community and they came up with the idea, what if we told the Easter story through art. The idea came when one of the leaders of the group was in Venice, Italy and was touring the old churches, she saw that it was the art in the churches that told the story and she thought, why cant it be like that again? SO, thus "The Easter Project" was born. Basically if you are an artist, of any medium: painting, drawing, music, photography, poetry, graffiti, visual arts, or anything else, you take a verse, or an idea from the Easter story and create a piece based on that. When we get all of the pieces together in order you will be able to walk through the show and see the entire story, from beginning to end displayed through dozens of art pieces. So, on Good Friday we are having a big art show at church and then the pieces will stay up and be displayed all through Easter weekend so thousands of people will get to see this! Sherri and I are VERY excited about this project! It looks like we are entering 4 pieces to the show, 2 each, and we will post pictures and updates as we begin to create!
Work is still going well for both of us, I will begin traveling more (2 trips in the next month) but it will be nice to build the air mile account back up!
Finally, we are experiencing a VERY warm February! We have had several days in the 40's and a lot of snow has been melting, Feb is normally our coldest month, so this is a very nice break
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Moon over the Mountains
Here is a picture that we took from our deck with the moon over the mountains. I love this photo!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Winter Camping Video
This past weekend Sherri and I went camping with some friends. Check out this video for a quick look where we went!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Crystal Gallery of Ice - Anchorage, Alaska 2010
Here is a video of Sherri and I exploring the ice carvings downtown in town square.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
100 in 10!
Howdy Folks -
I just returned from a very successful business trip to Dallas, Texas. While I was there it was colder then it was in Anchorage, why does that keep happening?
Anyway, now that I am home we are really turning our eyes towards 2010. One of our biggest goals in the new year has to do with health. We are approaching this on 2 fronts: what we do and what we eat. We are going to try and be more active, especially in the winter months. During summer we are out a lot hiking, camping, going on walks, but in the winter we tend to be inside and less active. This also will include what we eat. Our biggest targets will be to cut back on late night eating & snacking and eat more at home and less out at restaurants. This will allow us to control what goes into what we eat. Also, for Christmas we got a juicer and we are going to juice a lot more, (we have already started doing this!) because this can be an easy way to get essential nutrients that we are not currently getting enough of.
So, health can actually be a tough thing to judge and weight loss is certainly one aspect of it, however, it can be the most easily judged aspect of it. So, we looked at our weight, looked at what we have lost when we have been active and we both think that our goal is attainable, yet challenging. So, for 2010 we are aiming to lose a combined 100 pounds! Wow, that seems like a lot. However, in the summer of 2008 we lost about 50 pounds in a 3 month period when we were both really pushing hard.
We have added a "tracker" to the upper right hand side of this page and we will try and remember to update it weekly with anything that has been lost.
Hopefully 2010 will be a year of great change! We look forward to having you on our journey!
I just returned from a very successful business trip to Dallas, Texas. While I was there it was colder then it was in Anchorage, why does that keep happening?
Anyway, now that I am home we are really turning our eyes towards 2010. One of our biggest goals in the new year has to do with health. We are approaching this on 2 fronts: what we do and what we eat. We are going to try and be more active, especially in the winter months. During summer we are out a lot hiking, camping, going on walks, but in the winter we tend to be inside and less active. This also will include what we eat. Our biggest targets will be to cut back on late night eating & snacking and eat more at home and less out at restaurants. This will allow us to control what goes into what we eat. Also, for Christmas we got a juicer and we are going to juice a lot more, (we have already started doing this!) because this can be an easy way to get essential nutrients that we are not currently getting enough of.
So, health can actually be a tough thing to judge and weight loss is certainly one aspect of it, however, it can be the most easily judged aspect of it. So, we looked at our weight, looked at what we have lost when we have been active and we both think that our goal is attainable, yet challenging. So, for 2010 we are aiming to lose a combined 100 pounds! Wow, that seems like a lot. However, in the summer of 2008 we lost about 50 pounds in a 3 month period when we were both really pushing hard.
We have added a "tracker" to the upper right hand side of this page and we will try and remember to update it weekly with anything that has been lost.
Hopefully 2010 will be a year of great change! We look forward to having you on our journey!
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