Finally Arrived

Well, this whole adventure morphed into something of a new adventure.  Absolutely the last minute, we switched from driving to Fort Greely, to flying here and that was something.  The movers were literally standing in front of us waiting for the answer to pack or not to pack.  We spend hundreds of dollars buying things for our car, planning a 10-day drive here and in the blink of an eye had to decide to pack it up and start over with  a plan to fly.  The kids did well on the flight. They slept alot thank goodness.  But we are finally here in the frozen tundra, without a vehicle or any of our stuff, and the adventure has begun!

Hurry Up and Wait

So we are still waiting on our orders but in the meanwhile I keep getting updates and questions answered from our wonderful sponsors in Alaska.  Our "To Do" list is getting out of control and at some point we have to just sit down and knock some of the things off the list.  Everytime I add something to the list, I can feel my chest tighten up more and more, but then Christina sends me a picture of a moose calving in the street where we're about to live, and then I smile inside and wish we could leave today!  I've been working on Ellie to get her excited but at 2yrs old, that excitement has to be renewed almost daily.  At first I asked if she was ready to go to Alaska and she would answer "NO! No Laska" and had no idea what she was talking about.  Nowdays, her answer is "YES Ma'am!!" and still has no idea what she's talking about but it makes me laugh which in turn makes her laugh, which in turn makes Garrett laugh.  So for now, just talking about Alaska makes our family happy :o). 

Preparations to Move

Momma, it's warm here. You SHUUUH you want to leave?

Right now we're just waiting for the final orders so that we can line up the movers, the passports, the housing, the trip itinerary, the house/car insurance swap-overs, and it feels like the list goes on forever. We are trying to have things lined up so that when the orders come in we'll be ready to hit the ground running -- straight to Alaska!  We're taking this adventure all the way to "the end of the road" literally and could not be more excited.  Today Garrett turned 11 months old and it's sad that he's leaving all his grandparents but what a cool thing to give your kids - pictures of him and Ellie out feeding berries to the bears, ice fishing with some eskimo friends, shooting their first muskets, riding bareback on some random moose in our front yard, playing on 150 lb cabbages, writing on our driveway with chalk at 1am becuase the sun is still up and nobody can sleep.  They might be too young to remember it but they won't be lacking in pictures to look at later and probably think "man, why didn't our crazy parents wait until we were older to take us to Alaska??" We can't wait!