Friday, September 17, 2010

10 years!

Steve and I just celebrated 10 years of being married on the 16th.  Sometimes I can't believe that I have lived in Alaska for 10 years.  It's been wonderful, and I love it.  I feel so blessed to have such a great husband; someone who loves me in so many ways.

Steve had to work on our actual anniversary, so we claimed Tuesday as our day.  We went for a nice walk, ( 8 days and counting of hot sunny weather in September!), walked along the docks at the downtown harbor, went to Twisted Fish for supper, and then watched The Prince of Persia.  A nice lovely date.




I love boats!










  I love all the fall colors showing up now.


The best scrabble game I have ever played.  I had incredible luck.  :-)

Family Camp 2010

Last weekend was our annual family camp at Echo Ranch.  It was incredible.  On the drive out the road Friday, we had sunglasses on and the air conditioner on low in Steve's truck.  It was sunny and warm the entire weekend, and it got way to hot in our cabin with the wood stove.   :-)
I of course followed the little kids around and hung out by the horses.  Steve and I went for many walks, and on one of the walks by the beach we got to see Dan and Ashleigh's canoe tip into the ocean.  Ashleigh was such a good sport, she and Dan both were just laughing about it.  
We got to have a softball game, again I got many pictures.  Steve whooped everyone at tether ball, it was so much fun to watch. 
As usual, I told Steve I want to live out the road, especially at Echo Ranch.  It is just so peaceful and quiet, and unbelievably beautiful.  I just look at everything and am so awed that God created all of this.  
I was blessed to be able to take a boat ride both ways to camp, thank you very much Bill Nash, Kevin Miller and Russell Brown for providing that for us.

I took 702 pictures at camp.  That is a record for me, and it's quite hard to choose which are my favorites.  Here is a sampling:




























































Sunday, September 5, 2010

This past week

We started our Thursday night Bible study up again this week.   After dinner, and while Bryan Hosh was teaching I found myself realizing how much I had missed it.  The fellowship, the laughter, the teaching, the food.  Just a bunch of Christian people sharing food and God together.  I love it.

David is doing well at Bible College, his classes start tomorrow.  He has been great about keeping in touch with me, he sent me these two pictures:





His roommate brought in a stand up poster of Bella, David thought I would get a kick out of it.  He was right!
Ashleigh posted on her blog a recipe for black bean burritos, I made them and they were wonderful!




Tonight I made me a stir fry with buffalo, asparagus, green pepper, tomatoes, broccoli and onion.  I put it on brown rice, yum!  It did raise my heart rate for some reason, I'm waiting to see if I have an allergic reaction as I seem to be getting new allergies all the time.  My body has decided that it doesn't like food.

I have been knitting like crazy, I am still not done with Teri's blanket, but I'm sort of close.  4 more to go!