Look at this!!!

Big deal, a picture of our kitchen table, why would this ever be worthy of a blog??  This picture proves something very, very important.

Besides proving that we can keep the kitchen table clean (I think it was cluttered for most of the summer), it also shows that the little black dot that was in every one of our old pictures, is now gone!  We had our camera fixed and the picture now is super dooper clear!

Thats all cats!

Peaceful Coexistance?

Too bad they missed the Las Vegas wedding. Jim could have taught them a step or two.

Sue's Views

This was the day we traveled north with Sally and Bill to 40 mile point light house. There is a ship wreckage right on shore (or what remains of the bottom hull). We were searching for interesting shells. I just kinda liked this picture, with my baptism coming up this weekend and all. Ker-ploosh!

Love ya,

Sue

P.S. I got the Hughes re-installed. I'm back in business.

Pennies from heaven!

Funny what you find on your camera when it has been set aside for awhile. Our camera is in the shop for repairs and so we've been using our old camera this weekend. When I loaded the pictures onto my computer, look what I found!

This picture was taken a couple years ago. This was a very special day for Jim. We received these cereal samples in the mail. This is like pennies from heaven for Jim! It made his day!

I hate to name-drop, but...

We drove up to Miami for the second time in a week, this time in search of better CD rates, and we ended up at Ocean Bank in Kendall and drove right by OJ's house! He wasn't home, but we got a tip from the lady that wrote up our CD that he shopped at the same Publix as she does, on Kendall and 132nd Ave, and we drove right by that too! I tell ya, the excitement never quits around here! And also, in case you are interested, the gas prices up in Kendall were $3.69 and down here in Islamorada we only paid $3.19. Are we lucky or what? Yes, I know times are tough, but let's look for the small pleasures in life, and there are always a few of those. We had shrimp and wings for dinner at Sparky's when we got home. Now that's a small but important pleasure for sure. Hope you all have a great weekend filled with small or great pleasures.

update!

Hey everyone,

I really should be blogging more. I don't have any good excuses...

Winter is here! It's below freezing all day and we've been getting a
dusting of snow almost every night (and it stays). There's ice over
Noyes Slough (small river) and the lakes are freezing up. I told the
parents it's like the whole area is just a few degrees above freezing
all summer. It's amazing how fast things are freezing. Even the
Chena river has "frazil ice" which looks like slush flowing down the
river (learned that in my class last night!).

It's getting darker, too. After the autumnal equinox we lose a lot
more light per day than yous guys down south. The sun comes up
sometime after 8 now so I've lit up my bike. I've got blinky lights
on the front and back and a red light in my spokes (it's awesome) and
I've got my headlamp mounted to my helmet. I also bought some studded
tires. They're really awesome and I'm planning on doing a lot of
riding before it gets too cold (not planning on riding too much when
it's -40!).

This semester I'm taking a class-- Arctic Engineering. It's required
to get my Professional Engineer's license in Alaska. (sidenote: I sit
for the big exam in a year and a half!) Anyway, the class is really
cool. I've encountered a lot of differences between engineering up
here and engineering in MI and I'm learning a ton in the class.

I'm taking a class for work this week too. Yesterday was not so fun--
11 hours of classes! Never had that many hours of class in college!
Glad I don't have to do that again. So tonight I'm relaxing.

I had a great weekend in Kodiak visiting Brian. What a cool place. I
really liked it but I'd never live there-- it's so isolated! It's an
8 hour ferry to the mainland. The picture is of a beach we found. We
felt like we discovered it ourselves. So cool. Brian gets back to
Anchorage in a few weeks and we'll be able to resume our regularly
scheduled visits. ;-)

Well, that's the news from the north. I love reading all your blogs!

Aimee

On the "Must Have" List

I'm pretty sure just about everyone in our family needs this to help improve the self- portrait qualities. I know I'm putting it on my Christmas list.