Alaska on my mind…

It’s been a while since I last posted. I’m happy to say that I recovered well from my surgery.

My birthday came and looked like it would be a non event but my dear friend Moira had other plans. She invited us over for spaghetti dinner complete with a delicious GF chocolate birthday cake. With her hubby and our 9 kids (together) we enjoyed a rather boisterous rendition of “Happy Birthday” and some cake & ice cream. 

Would you look at that warming fire!

But that didn’t end the beauty of the night! A couple of great gifts, one of which is a lavender bead which contains ashes from the last eruption of Mr. Redoubt. This is very precious to me. Dad sent me ashes from that eruption. It is my Alaska bead and I wear it proudly in my locs!

Mt. Redoubt bead.

From there we had a blowout Hanukkah. The kids are totally spoiled and I should tell them no more presents next year. We enjoyed spending Hanukkah with our friends at MoAdim and with Moira. I had quite the busy holiday season with parties galore, including a big bash with all these children that I and Moira and Niki and Shawna have collected!! I lost count of all of them. We are blessed with friends for sure.

My pretty girlies.

Thing 2 reading the story of the Maccabees.

New Year’s came in and lots of bangs were heard. Alaskans do love their illegal fireworks on New Year’s.
And now here we are in February. Winter is still going strong with frequent snowfall and much colder temps than we’ve experienced since moving here. 

My snowscape.

My job has been great with indoor work for the majority of the season. But that is coming to an end here shortly. Our commercial addition is near complete and we’ll be moving onto a new cabin build in Kenai.

20′ x 30′ commercial addition.

I’m looking forward to this build since I drew up the plans for inspection. It feels good to have your work complemented! 

Cabin plans.

Well that’s pretty much it for the time being.  Hope you enjoyed our little update.