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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Miss Magoo is 2!





Meghan turns 2 today! Yeah Meghan!!!!!!!!!!!!

And a Happy Birthday to Uncle Ken as well!

Monday, October 22, 2007

Snow Angels




Check Out the street sign Grandpa and Grandma Rivers. The sign is a street right behind our house.

Anyways. We have been doing some winter exploring. In one word Beautiful. Wish people could see it first hand.

Anyways we are off on adventures again.

In our Creators Grace
Love
Jason

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Quiet and Aware

Snow is an amazing thing.

The Beauty is in the Awareness that come on with the first flake.
So many people say I hate the snow. I hate the cold.
People need to stop look and be aware.

To see life in the those little flakes. Amazing

Thank you ABBA for Creation. Thank you for this Life

Love
Jason


Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Chefs Rivers


Greetings from Alaska,



Sydney is now becoming one of the greatest chefs around. She watched as our friends Mike and Jen had us over for the first ever joint dinner night. Load of fun and fostering new relationships.

In weather news. The threat of snow continues. But no new snow as of yet. Cloudy and 23 today.


Love
Jason

Saturday, October 13, 2007

2 new blogs

Here are 2 new blogs I enjoy:

http://jyohnka.blogspot.com/

http://www.dooce.com/

I know there is a better way to do it, then that way but oh well.;-)

To God be the Glory, Jess

Sydney is 4!!!!!

The older of my 2 daughters Miss Sydney turned 4 today!

Gosh, I can still remember seeing that first postive test.I had to have my Mom look at to make sure I wasn't seeing things. And then calling Jason at work, because I just couldn't wait to tell him I was pregnant. My how our lives have changed in the last 4 years. We of course added Meghan to the clan 2 years later. And made a HUGE move to Alaska last April.
Wow, Time sure does fly.

Happy Birthday baby, I love you

Momma

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

WOW!!! Winter In Alaska



Yep! Winter is here. It has been snowing for the last couple of days. Contrary to what the weather reports say. Highs have been in the low thirties and lows have been in the teens. Most people are saying " Wow your not cold?" Nope! The girls still have to get used to wearing hats and gloves outside. I personally just dress in layers. I am SMRT Smart. We wear glove and Hats and Fleeces (Thanks Gamma Sue and Granpa Jerry). The Girls LOVE there Jackets( Thanks Unc Ken, Auntie Robin and Cuz Mhari).

I am in Hockey Nirvana. I know I am probably the last one to know this. But I got to listen to the Sabres play Islanders online Saturday. Great Game though they lost. I also Caught the Cannuck Game. They won in OT. Going to try to catch some of the Avs games to online. Avs Did win on Sunday by a Whopping 4 goals in the third period 6-2 over the Sharks.

Sydney is quite the little Sous Chef. She helps me with every meal we cook. She scrubs potatoes to help me make our oven fries and helped me make our Super Secret Moose Loaf Recipe. One of the gals at work Deb gave us 50# of moose to us. All steaks and some trim for ground. they had gotten it and did not like the flavor. Yummy for us. After giving a third of it away to our dishgal Jess. We actually got it in our freezer. 4-6 Months of meat? Yep super cool.

In other news. We are officially Alaskans now. Yesterday my Buddy Jerms and I winterized the trailblazer. So all that is left is to regulate the antifreeze and we will be set for winter.


In Gods Grace
Jason

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Adventures in Bunkbed Building

We had our first dusting of snow this morning. 32 degrees. We had a heck of a time getting the Bunkbeds that GPOP and GMOM sent us for Syd and Meghan Birthdays put together.But they are finished!!!! We also want to wish GPOP a Happy 25th Birthday(HA HA). Hope they are having a great time in BC.

Love
In Gods Grace
Jason