Been a while...

We have been busy bees around here lately! We just got back from 25 days of leave in GA. It was so nice to see family and friends! And nice to get a mommy and daddy break and run away to florida for 4 days! :) Thanks to all of our family for letting us stay with you and for helping take care of baby. It was a great trip. I think we are the luckiest parents in the world to have such a wonderful baby. He does not cry on planes and is just such a happy kid. Blessed is the word that comes to mind. It is getting dark and gloomy up here in Alaska and depression season is setting in for sure. I think it is time to bring the happy light up from the basement. I need some vitamin D in my life! We just have to make the best of it and enjoy the last year or so that we have here in this frozen place. Can't wait for next summer, lots of adventures to be had in this place. We are going sledding today with some friends and will post a pic of that soon. Should be a great time :) Unfortunately we will not be able to come home for Christmas this year, reason being because I got my job back and couldn't be happier about it. Sad about not coming home for the holidays but excited to be working in a place that I like very much. We love you all and thanks as always for following...

Feels great to have our family together!

All of the excitement of the guys returning from their deployment is settling down now. It is so nice to have our family together and to almost feel like we have a normal life again. haha. We had an 80's themed party last weekend and that was so much fun!!! Good times with great friends! Counting down the days until we go home to GA next week. Its going to be a great time! My great grandmother, Mimi, is in the hospital and going to be having surgery soon. She is 89 years old. Thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated... Guess thats all for now. Have a great week! :)

We had a great weekend! We went camping with the Neel Family. Patty and Steven had never been camping before in Alaska and neither had Mason so we thought this would be our last chance this year. Good thing we went because it is definitely going to snow within the next couple of days here. It was a nice break from TV, internet and phones for a few days. Mason did great. Of course we had to rent a camper for the baby and I but that is definitely considered camping in my book. Randy and Steven were both so sick of chopping wood by the end of the trip! We had great food and great company. Other than the camping trip there hasn't been too much going on around here. Mason is talking more and playing more and it is so exciting to see him grow like that! He is such a wonderful baby! We are going back to GA for a few weeks on October 9th so we are getting excited about that. I guess that is all for now, more to come later...

Exciting things going on!

Randy is home!!! He has been home for about a week now and we couldn't be happier! It is definitely an adjustment for both of us to go from being alone and doing things our way to making it work together again after a whole year, but we are figuring it out. I have spent a lot of time and effort in the last couple of weeks trying to make our house a home and am pretty satisfied with the result. It was so much fun to do the nursery for Mason and everything looks great! I do miss our family and friends already, but if this is where we have to be to be together then so be it for now. We have the rest of our lives to live in Georgia. I am taking on a new attitude about this Alaska thing.... attempting to embrace it because there's nothing I can do to change it. lol.