I am TERRIBLE at keeping everyone updated. Handslap I know. I am posting here just to attempt to share our lives in Alaska after 2 1/2 years living here. We LOVE it here! We feel at home here and even if we PCS (hopefully to Germany) we will return to AK For Sure!! Brad has been deployed now for 6 ½ months between KS and Afghanistan, and we are counting down the days til he’s home with us. I have posted lots of pictures on my Face Book so please look there to see what we have been up to this past summer. I also have a few projects done that I will post on my craft blog in the coming weeks, I hope.
Life has swallowed me whole but I guess that’s normal for me :)
This is what keeps us busy now and this coming fall.
So Mondays Kenzie has a science class, Zac is a Den Chief for cub scouts and Kalea has Girl Scouts.
Tuesday I usually go into work at the commissary to do mark-downs and salvage and Zac has Order of the Arrow (Boy Scouts) or Venture Crew (Boy Scouts), they alternate weeks.
Wednesday Zac has Boy Scouts
Thursday all 3 kids have a Glass Fusion class and the occasional Girl Scout meeting.
Friday all 3 have Drawing class, the girls have Irish Dance and Kenzie has Girl Scouts.
Saturday the girls have dance and of course most everything else the kids do falls on the weekend.
Sunday I have inventory at the commissary so I go into the deep freezer and count all the food in there and in the fridge. BRRRR!
Zac also has a Boy Scout meeting monthly to meet with his National Jamboree troop. Next summer Zac is going to the 100th year anniversary of Boy Scouts in America. He’ll be joining over 40,000 other Boy Scouts from around the world. He is also busy fundraising, right now its Boy Scout popcorn. Anybody want some??
Zac passed on the People to People student ambassador trip to Australia. I asked Zac his opinion to which trip he would rather make and he chose the once in a lifetime Boy Scout trip. He felt he can always join the PPL 2 PPL program or travel on his own. A very mature decision to me.
I also have been cleaning houses for over a year now so sprinkled in the mix I clean and do the final inspections with the housing authorities (days/times vary) Brad was my business partner but since he deployed a friend has come to help me.
I work for 3 different companies at the commissary (been almost 1 1/2 year there) so I am always there at weird hours/days setting displays, coupons, prepping major sales and audits. So my work schedule never is the same day to day or week to week.
I have been trying to squeeze some “me” time in and have been hitting the gym 6x a week for about 2 ½ months. 2 days cardio, 2 days weights and THANK GOD 2 days of yoga. I am also trying to find time to scrap, knit, breathe LOL and I even signed up for a quilting class.
I am still having Thyroid issues, mainly because I forget my Amour. Yet another reason I need Brad here with me. I was diagnosed with Cervical Dystonia last winter and had to have Botox injections in my neck, shoulder and back. WOOZERS! Not fun! My physical therapist believes I tore my Rotator cuff but I refuse to ride on the fun MRI train again. Why at 32 am I falling apart?? LOL
We have a great group of friends so literally every night and weekend we have friends over or we are over at their house. We have our TV shows we watch together, shopping we do, working out, girls nights, scouts and Skinny Cow time (my new FAV ice cream sandwich, YUMMY!!) They are our family here. I can’t wait til we get to see our friends and family when we travel outside. Looking more like next spring when Brad can join us.
Ok, well I am done for tonight. Kenzie has her 2 BFF’s spending the night (like every other weekend LOL) and Zac has Boy Scouts at 7:30am, stop laughing it’s not funny. Nope still not a morning person! I will try my best to update more often. Night everyone!
Life has swallowed me whole but I guess that’s normal for me :)
This is what keeps us busy now and this coming fall.
So Mondays Kenzie has a science class, Zac is a Den Chief for cub scouts and Kalea has Girl Scouts.
Tuesday I usually go into work at the commissary to do mark-downs and salvage and Zac has Order of the Arrow (Boy Scouts) or Venture Crew (Boy Scouts), they alternate weeks.
Wednesday Zac has Boy Scouts
Thursday all 3 kids have a Glass Fusion class and the occasional Girl Scout meeting.
Friday all 3 have Drawing class, the girls have Irish Dance and Kenzie has Girl Scouts.
Saturday the girls have dance and of course most everything else the kids do falls on the weekend.
Sunday I have inventory at the commissary so I go into the deep freezer and count all the food in there and in the fridge. BRRRR!
Zac also has a Boy Scout meeting monthly to meet with his National Jamboree troop. Next summer Zac is going to the 100th year anniversary of Boy Scouts in America. He’ll be joining over 40,000 other Boy Scouts from around the world. He is also busy fundraising, right now its Boy Scout popcorn. Anybody want some??
Zac passed on the People to People student ambassador trip to Australia. I asked Zac his opinion to which trip he would rather make and he chose the once in a lifetime Boy Scout trip. He felt he can always join the PPL 2 PPL program or travel on his own. A very mature decision to me.
I also have been cleaning houses for over a year now so sprinkled in the mix I clean and do the final inspections with the housing authorities (days/times vary) Brad was my business partner but since he deployed a friend has come to help me.
I work for 3 different companies at the commissary (been almost 1 1/2 year there) so I am always there at weird hours/days setting displays, coupons, prepping major sales and audits. So my work schedule never is the same day to day or week to week.
I have been trying to squeeze some “me” time in and have been hitting the gym 6x a week for about 2 ½ months. 2 days cardio, 2 days weights and THANK GOD 2 days of yoga. I am also trying to find time to scrap, knit, breathe LOL and I even signed up for a quilting class.
I am still having Thyroid issues, mainly because I forget my Amour. Yet another reason I need Brad here with me. I was diagnosed with Cervical Dystonia last winter and had to have Botox injections in my neck, shoulder and back. WOOZERS! Not fun! My physical therapist believes I tore my Rotator cuff but I refuse to ride on the fun MRI train again. Why at 32 am I falling apart?? LOL
We have a great group of friends so literally every night and weekend we have friends over or we are over at their house. We have our TV shows we watch together, shopping we do, working out, girls nights, scouts and Skinny Cow time (my new FAV ice cream sandwich, YUMMY!!) They are our family here. I can’t wait til we get to see our friends and family when we travel outside. Looking more like next spring when Brad can join us.
Ok, well I am done for tonight. Kenzie has her 2 BFF’s spending the night (like every other weekend LOL) and Zac has Boy Scouts at 7:30am, stop laughing it’s not funny. Nope still not a morning person! I will try my best to update more often. Night everyone!