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