New Adventure of Life

Here are a few pictures of our apartment.  The living room Kitchen Living room looking into bathroom View from the stairs Don't mind the mess. Our room/ Upstairs  Front door Entry way  Hope you enjoy some of these.

Well James and I made it to Anchorage. :) We had an awesome day today (Friday) We got all of our shopping done. We will go mail it all tomorrow. Also James took me out to Olive Garden. One just opened up here in Anchorage. It was amazing. I'm happy to get out of the village for a few days. I've enjoyed living there. I'm looking forward to going back home. But I need to get out for a little bit. So when James and I were driving to go to Olive Garden his aunt called me to ask me to pick up something. While I was on the phone with we missed our exit. That is the only thing we can think of that happen. We kept driving and driving. The mountains were beautiful. James and I were in awe of them. Finally we turned around after driving for at least 20-30 minutes to head back to see if we could find the road we needed. We found it right away. We felt like we needed to go on that small drive. It was amazing to see God's beautiful creation.

I have 1 year and 1 month until I get to go back to Michigan. My second to youngest sister will be graduating high school, and I told myself (and James) that I have to be at all my sisters graduations. I know it sounds silly, but that is the one thing I want to do for them. It also gives me an idea when I get to visit family. Not what I'm going to do when my youngest sister graduate. I still have about 4 years until she graduates and then I'll have to think of reasons for visiting my family. lol Once the time comes closer to next June, I'm gonna be so excited. I have tried thinking of ways to be able to go home and visit, but I don't have the money to really do that. At the same time I think it's a good thing, that way I'll cherish being home visiting everyone. I know James gets at least one week of vacation so we have to split our time between Michigan and Illinois, but that's okay. I don't mind visiting in-laws. It will be nice seeing everyone. I know

Last year when my sister and her family moved in with us, I notice my brother in law cutting box tops off of some of the boxes of food I just bought. It turns out that they would send them to school with their oldest son. So as the months went by I would give them my box tops to help out. When I move to  Alaska I was having a hard time being away from my family at the beginning. I decided that on some the stuff that I would buy had box tops, so I decided that I would collect them for my nephew even though I was gone. Well it turns out my niece was taking some to school too. Now when I get at least 10-12 of them I send them to my niece and nephew so they can take them to school. I send them every few months. I'm still collecting them for Carter and Kenna. When I send the next batch of them I'll probably have a little more then they other times since I look for items with the box tops. I enjoy helping them out even though I'm in Alaska and they are in Michigan. I've been