Meet Buster

Meet our newest addition to our little family! This is Buster, he is about 5 months old. He is a sweet little guy when he wants to be but he sure does have a mind of his own sometimes. He makes our family feel more complete at the moment. We got him around Christmas and it has been interesting teaching him and seeing what he picks up on and what he still needs to learn. We're still working on house breaking him but we'll get there soon enough. 

We had a good Christmas. This was our first real Christmas celebrating together, it was really nice. Alaska is treating us nicely. We love our ward! We have a lot of fun couples we get together with. Some of the girls invited me to book club so I'm excited to start really getting to know them. 

Micah and I have started preparing to be sealed in the temple and I can't wait to be sealed to him for time and all eternity! He is the love of my life and there is no one else I'd rather be with. Last night we were trying to plan out the finally details for our trip to Ohio to be sealed and if its not one thing its another. Micah had a training that he thought he'd have to go to that would interfere with when we were trying to go to Ohio, but he was able to get out of that. And then last night I remember the temple has its schedule up online and we found out that the Columbus temple is closed the whole time we're planning to be in Ohio. It amazes me how on Sunday we were talking about how we need to make sure we don't let the things in life distractions get in the way of us making it to the temple. Man do I understand what they mean. Hopefully we'll be able to work this all out soon. 

Busters not a big fan of the camera yet. Have a great Tuesday everyone!

Pictures from the road

As I have promised, here are the pictures of our trip from Colorado Springs Colorado to Anchorage Alaska. We had a lot of fun our road trip, we got to see some good friends and family along the way. It was worth it taking the extra time to make time for them. We are truly blessed for the wonderful people the Lord puts in our path. We had some people who were so kind to us on our journey. Our card got froze because the military forgot to mark it for travel and as Micah was calling to get the problem taken care of the lady behind him paid for our gas for the Uhaul! What a kind lady that was. Others were helpful with directions and telling us good places to stop at along the one. I am thankful for all that I have in my life and for the people I have met along the way.

We saw some gorgeous sunsets on our trip! Absolutely beautiful.

We had a lot of pretty mountains and trees to look at along our way.

This Valley was GORGEOUS, probably one of my favorite parts of our trip we call it "the Grand Canyon of Colorado"

Wind turbines, trees the many trees and a duck-taped van.

       I couldn't stop laughing at this when I saw it.

       We saw goats, deer, moose, elk, bison, and black bears, OH MY!

We had a fun road trip, we played travel games and listened to good                music and even enjoyed a book on the road together.

Oh the mountains out here are my favorite! I am already in love with them.

My poor sweet heart is exhausted, he drove us the whole 3,600 miles, and we finally crossed the boarder and we back in the united states. 

    

       

               

Have a great day everyone.

Hello from Alaska!

Micah and I made it to Anchorage Alaska! We are very excited to be starting this new chapter in our life. We are currently enjoying the exciting job of finding a place to live. At first the hunt was going a little slow and we weren't having any luck finding places with a move-in date before the middle of October or beginning of November. Well after looking at a dozen or so places we finally think we found a place that will work for us! I am beyond excited to get out of this hotel and back into a place of my own. Anchorage seems to be a nice place so far. We haven't gotten to do much besides the apartment hunting. The mountains here are oh so pretty, I am in love with the scenery. Its been rainy the past few days, today was the first real nice weather we've had since we've been here.

Our road trip was a lot of fun, we made it all the way from Colorado to Utah to Idaho then through Canada and then finally to Alaska! Our trip went pretty smoothly we only had a few bumpy spots in our trip. We had a tire blow out in Canada but the uhaul company sent someone out and they fixed it in a matter of twenty minutes after we called. Once we got back into the states is where we started to run into some real problems, our check engine light came on and the nearest town that had anything opened was 90 miles into Alaska. Thankfully our uhaul made it that far, we stop and got dinner and when we got back into the truck to find a place to sleep for the night the truck took awhile to start and we barely made it into the parking lot of the motel. Micah called the uhaul company and they were supposed to have someone out to check it out and find the problem bright and early the next morning. We were 330 miles away from Anchorage and didn't get the truck fixed until around 5, so we lost a day of travel. Aside from our little problem in Tok we made good time. We got a lot of pretty pictures that I'll post when we really great settled in.

I look forward to the next ten days I get to spend with my sweetheart before he has to go back to work. We have so much to get done and I'll be glad when things start falling into place a little more. Take care everyone.