Lion King

The Lion King came to Anchorage, AK - can you believe it! I went last night with about 15 of my family members...Great-Nana, Nana, Aunts and Cousins. I wasn't looking forward to sitting for 3 hours and wasn't too sure what I got myself into. But the show was AMAZING!! The costumes, singing and dancing left me speechless! We had front row, floor tickets only 4-5 rows back from the stage! I would pay the money all over to see this show again. If it ever comes your way, regardless of the ticket prices - GO SEE IT!

It's Been Awhile...

Wow! It has been some time since I posted on this blog! Yikes – shows you how busy life gets. Most recently my house projects have been consuming my life. I decided it is time to tear up the carpets and put in the laminate flooring I have wanted for the past 3 years – well I didn’t just decide…I was wondering through Lowes like most of us homeowners do on our free time. (Since I bought my house I am addicted to Home Depot & Lowes, who woulda thought) Well I happen to see the flooring on sale for .70 cents a sq foot, and with my house being pretty small it was pretty cheap to do my floors. So the projects began…in the mist of putting the floors down Daniel decided he would just buy me new trim for my house instead of using the old nasty brown stuff. So that turned into another project. Sooo we finally got the floors finished (they look great) and now working on the trim. It is all coming together *very* well I love it…makes my lil house all that cozier! It is quite entertaining to see my 106lb American Bull Dog try to run on the floor…and watching Pita slide across the living room like a mop!! Awww the joys of our pets. (Don't mind the mess in the house)

So between work and the house projects nothing new is going on. Daniel and I are heading to Kodiak October 1st, I will be coming home on the 5th by myself. He will be staying and leaving to St.Paul on the boat. It is time to go Red Crab fishing. The boys will be out in the Bering Sea...out towards St.Paul Island...

He should be gone until about Mid-November. Good news – he will be home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. That makes me happy.

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Godmother

So my Aunt & Uncle called me and asked me if I would be the Godmother to my little cousin Miles Glen Tressler. Oh gosh - was I ever excited to say YES OF COURSE!! He is too damn precious. We are having the baptism on Easter Sunday.

Look out Hawaii - here I come

Honolulu here I come...

We leave to Hawaii next Friday - I'm am so super duper excited. I can't wait to be laying on the beach without a worry in the world. Things at home have been kind of hard latley. Not that things are bad, just overwhelmig. I loved Erins blog about feeling lost and maybe our lives should have road signs. *sigh* wouldn't that be nice.

There are just trying times in life that you aren't sure if things are what you really want. It goes for everything - relationships, work, place you live...everything! It all passes - and gets better. I just can't wait to get to the beach and forget all my worries and have the time of my life.

We are planning on going to Peral Harbor, Honolulu Zoo, surfing, maybe some exotic fishing - like Shark Fishing! Yikes! I'm sure I will be posting tons of pictures on here whene we get home!

Lucky?

Lucky?

I'm getting something from Erin and you can get something from me! Here's the scoop.The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!2- What I create will be just for you.3- It’ll be done this year.4- You have no clue what it’s going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that’s for sure!5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! If you don't have a blog.... uh, we can work something out. We can post pictures here or something. Or, you could start a blog! Blogs rule (the world!) Bloggers of the world unite!Also, if you’re already getting something from somebody else’s blog, please give someone else a turn! Thanks!

25 Random Things (ok maybe 26)

1- I grew up an only child, but at the age of 22 I recieved a little brother. He is now 5 and I love him more than words could ever explain.

2-My family means more to me than anyone could EVER imagine

3-I wanted to me a Marine Biologist when I grew up & I used to compete in National Ocean Science Bowl Competitions.

4-I lost a dear childhood friend 3 years ago in a an airplane crash outside of Seward, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about him and miss him sooo much. RIP Fritz

5-Sometimes it feels like everyone I love and truly care about ends up leaving me, and it makes me really sad

6-I wish I could see Erin every single day of my life, but now she lives miles and miles away from me. But no matter how far away she is, it always feels like she is very close in my heart. I just love her :]

7-Every past realationship I have been in has tought me valuable lessons and that makes me the person I am today. Even though at the time of being in the relationship I hated my life, today I am thankful for them.

8-I would love to have children someday, and when I decide to I will need medical assistance.

9-I love the ocean and everything about it. I grew up on the water, and got to experience more growing up then most people do in a lifetime.

10-I have a best friend, who has been my bestfriend since we were 3 years old - and we are still to this day extremly close.

11-I used to race SnoCross

12-I love who I am today, I pretty much am a badass. Ha.

13-I want to move out of AK, but I'm scared too because I love it here *so* much. But at the same time want to experience some new things.

14-I recently had to walk away from people who were supposdly my friends, but I couldn't handle the drama and bad situations. I haven't been happier than I am now.

15-I love Post Secret, and tonight I get to see a presetation by the man who started the whole thing.

16-I'm in a new realationship with someone I have known for years, and i couldn't ask for anything better. I love it!

16-I think Carey Hart is sooo hot, but a real jerk.

17-I love tattoos and I love guys covered in tattoos.

18-When I was 7 years old I have to save a friend (little girl) from being taken/stolen from her own father.

19-I have lost a lot of friends in the bast 4-5 years, so many that some people have told me they don't want to be my friend anymore because they all die.

20-Sometimes I'm a little too independent.

21-I love doing yard work.

22-I haven't bee snowmaching yet this year and it's killing me

23-I raised my ex's daughter for 3 years- and I feel I made a HUGE difference in her life, and hope that she remembers me forever. I'm scared of how her life is going to turn out now that I am no longer in it.

24-I love traveling within Alaska...Seward, Cooper Landing, Kenai, Kodiak...I am looking forward to visiting Sitka this summer.

25-I'm super excited for my future and what it holds for me. Bring it on life...I'm ready!! :]

Valentines Came Early this Year...

I got my beautiful Valentines Day present last night - and I absoultly love it! Daniel came home last Saturday off the boat because the Berring Sea Ice came into St.Paul and they can not delieve their quota of crab until the ice drifts onward. So the boys got to come home to their families, which is awesome. We got the call yesterday that he has to fly back to Dutch Harbor on Feb. 4th...so we decided we are going to have our own Valentines Day before he leaves...well he had already went shopping for me. And decided he really wanted to give me my gift last night (which was really bad because I haven't got to shop for him yet, its hard when he is always with me..haha) so we get to his house to have dinner and he gives it to me...a very very beautiful Past Present and Future diamond and white gold ring. I love it!!!

He is amazing :]

Feels like Home

What a crazy, but awesome start to 2009. I joke around and told everyone in my family that I got a boyfriend for Christmas - but I really did, well I got him on Christmas eve. It was so sweet. As we are flying on the plane to Kodiak he turns to me and says "so when we get to Kodiak, do I get to introduce you to my friends as my girlfriend?" it TOTALLY threw me off - and I paused and I couldn't say anything at all! He says " you don't have to answer right now" and I'm like "no, no it is okay - yes I would like to be your girlfriend". I felt like a little kid with the butterflies in my tummy - because he makes me feel that way...all the time. It is amazing how time can change people, and how surprising the outcome always turns out in a way that would blow your mind. We have been good friends for about 8 years now...we have seen each other at our best and our very worst, we have helped each other through some really hard times. And who would have thought that we are together now, a couple. And to think a month ago - I was horrified of the thought of a "relationship" and there was no way I wanted to be in one for a long long time. But today - I am happier then I have been in a very long time. I couldn't ask for more...he loves to be around me, treats me like a princess, listens to me, talks with me, lets me vent and laughes at me when I am all fired up about something - he thinks its cute when I'm frustrated, then it makes me laugh. I miss him so much - he is gone fishing until the middle of February. I am counting down the days!