Protest

Let us all Stand together.

Teach a Girl to fish

The Snow Still Falls In Alaska.

We Are ready to do some Fishing.

Underoath - Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape

It is not about Religion.
It was not about The Man.
It was about His Example.

WARNING Graphic Video Follows. Something that Might Make you think. We all know what happens when we do that.

Love Jason

Underoath - Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape

I heard a voice through the discord
A deluge of passersby
I saw one gaze frozen in time
Watching me passing by

And I swear I'll know your face in the crowd
And I'll hear your voice so loud
When you're whispering

Hey unfaithful I will teach you
To be stronger, to be stronger
Hey ungraceful I will teach you
To forgive one another.

Here's my kiss to betray (Kiss to betray)
Desperate to brush the lips of grace (Brush the lips of grace)
Do you feel hollow when you think of how I lied?

Oh sweet angel of mercy
With your grace like the morning
Wrap your loving arms around me
Oh sweet angel of mercy
With your grace like the morning
Wrap your loving arms around me

Hey unfaithful I will teach you
To be stronger, to be stronger
Hey ungraceful I will teach you
To forgive one another

Hey unfaithful I will teach you
To be stronger, to be stronger
Hey unloving
I will love you
I will love you
I will love you

And Jesus I'm ready to come home
Jesus, I'm ready to come home(home)
home (home)
I'm ready to come (home)
Hey Unfaithful
Hey Ungraceful
Hey Unloving
I will love you
Hey Unloving (Hey Unloving)
I will love you

Paid Twice

So as I was looking at stimulus related stuff online last night I stumbled onto this blog titled:I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…


The addy is: http://www.paidtwice.com/

I found it quite interesting. So much in fact I added it to my Google Reader list. (Thanks MOM, I am really enjoying the reader)

Anyway, it's by a 30-something Mom with 2 little kids and is about her families endeavour to decrease their so they just have a mortgage payment. Well we haven't had a credit card since September of 2005. AND VOW TO NEVER HAVE ANOTHER AS LONG AS WE LIVE. But still have other debts to pay and a painful car loan. In 2 and half years of large payments it would be nice to have it a lot further paid then it is. With the goal of also building our own log home. And new furniture for it would be nice too.

So I found her blog interesting and helpful. So I thought I would share.

On a weather note, the storm I had been hearing about seemed to arrive as it has been snowing all day. With snow in the forecast for the next few days. So much for break-up.


Love to everyone, Jess

Forgiveness

Happy Birthday Hailey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to take a moment to wish Miss Hailey a Happy 3rd Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday Miss Hailey!!!

We love you and Miss you. ;-)

Monster Salmon

Yummy

We found this recipe for No-Bake Cookies recently.We liked it so much we have made it twice now.

Here is the link: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/No-Bake-Cookies-I/Detail.aspx?strb=3

And also the recipe below:

INGREDIENTS
1 3/4 cups white sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
3 cups quick-cooking oats
1 teaspoon vanilla extract



DIRECTIONS
In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa. Bring to a boil, and cook for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in peanut butter, oats, and vanilla. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper. Let cool until hardened.

A tip posted by the submitter of the recipe:"Tasty no-bake cookies made with oatmeal, peanut butter and cocoa. Start timing when mixture reaches a full rolling boil; this is the trick to successful cookies. If you boil too long the cookies will be dry and crumbly. If you don't boil long enough, the cookies won't form properly."

One of the many reasons why I don't like watching the news

I saw this story on Yahoo tonight courtesy of the Associated Press and it reminded me of why I find myself watching/reading less news these days. So much of it is so painful to see on so many levels. Here is the story:


Pa. girl hit with game controller dies

Associated Press


YORK, Pa. - A 2-year-old girl died after being beaten with a video game controller by her mother's boyfriend, police said Tuesday. Darisabel Baez's mother overheard the beating Sunday but did nothing until she realized the girl was unconscious, police said.



The girl was pronounced dead late Monday at Hershey Medical Center, police Lt. Ron Camacho said.

Homicide was added to the list of charges against Harve L. Johnson on Tuesday; he was already in jail on counts including aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

The girl's mother, Neida E. Baez, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

It was clear from the bruises and other injuries on the little girl's body that Sunday was not the first time she had been abused, Dauphin County coroner Graham Hetrick told WGAL-TV. He said it was one of the worst cases of child abuse he has ever seen.

Baez, 19, called for an ambulance Sunday and said Johnson had brought the unconscious child to her, limp and wet from an attempt to revive her in a bathtub, a police affidavit said.

Johnson, 26, acknowledged beating the girl with a video game controller but did not say why, police said. Baez said Johnson had abused the girl in the past and that she heard the girl scream after Johnson beat her Sunday, according to the affidavit.

Detective Dana Ward said Baez was charged because she did not intervene or try to get help for Darisabel.

Johnson and Baez remained in custody Tuesday. His bail was set at $200,000; hers was $25,000.

Through police, family members declined requests for interviews Tuesday. Court officials said they did not know whether Johnson and Baez had lawyers to speak for them.

Google Reader

So I was just talking to my Mom and she was telling me about Google Reader. So I just started setting it up and am going to give it a try.We will see how it goes. Should make checking out the blogs and other websites I check out daily a lot more efficient.

We shall see.

www.google.com/reader


Later, Jess

Alaska-versary

Alaska-versary, that is what we call April 5th in this household.

Yes, that's right folks we have made it a full year! Believe it or not it has been a full 365 days since we arrived here in the Great White North, after an extremely long 5 day trek of 2600 miles.

We have survived our first winter, we are in full fledged BREAK-UP (The term for the nasty sandy, muddy, snow and wet mess that ensues after 6 months (yes 6 months of a few feet of compacted snow and ice on the ground). Although we did get a light dusty of snow today.

Oh, how our lives have changed. In so many ways I can't even begin to describe here, so I won't other then to say, that I am not the same woman today, that I was when I left Washington.

Hopefully a change for the better.

I was almost in tears to see the Washington Licence plates in our entry way and no longer on the truck. I have so long identified my self as being a Washingtonian, that it is almost painful to identify my self as anything else. I have noticed few people describe themselves as being "Alaskan".They all seem to have come from some other state. I think that might have to due with such a huge military population( at least here in our area with our 2 bases). It's a state of less then 700,000 people, but yet TWICE the size of Texas.

So unique. So different. So Alaska.


Much Love to all, Jessica