Alaska Pictures

I have been trying to find a way to put some pictures up so that I could share them with a couple of people and I have finally decided to just put them up on here. These are pictures that were taken during Spring Break 2008 in Alaska. Brian was in Anchorage for a rotation and his Spring Break was the same week as mine. He decided to stay there during Spring Break so I decided to head that way so I could see him. I am so glad I did! Everything was beautiful!

The day after I arrived we decided to drive from Anchorage to Fairbanks. We saw many amazing sights along the way including Mt. McKinley!

We went to Fairbanks in the hopes of seeing the Northern Lights, but we were not successful in seeing them. Even though we didn't see the Northern Lights we saw many other awesome things. We attempted to drive to the Arctic Circle and we would have succeded in that if a gas station would have been opened right after crossing the bridge going over the Yukon River.

As we made our attempt to get to the Arctic Circle we also saw the Pipeline!

When we stopped in the hopes of finding an open gas station we were actually stopped underneath the pipeline!

While we were in Fairbanks we went to an Ice Sculpture park! It's amazing how much detail can be put into the sculptures! My favorite one was a phone booth that the phone ac

tually worked!! There were all kinds of sculptures. Some you were only allowed to look out, but there were some that we could actually climb around on and in. They even had slides. We were just like big kids!

I will post some more later. That way I don't bore everyone in one post. :) Seriously, if you ever get the chance to go to Alaksa, GO! It's beautiful!

YAY!!

Our albums and dvds came in today!!!! We went to my parents house and looked through them and watched the dvd. I must say that Karin and Roger of Starry Eyed Studios did an AMAZING job with everything! Thank you Karin and Roger for being a part of our special day!

Is ignorance really bliss?

I find it extremely funny that some people are so against something they don't understand. Is ignorance really bliss?

I know that this post contains debatable subject matter. Feel free to leave your comments. Note that I am not trying to persuade one's opinion to be like mine. I am merely stating my opinion on the matter, that's all.

I saw that a friend on facebook had posted something about Congress possibly passing a bill allowing conceal carry on college campuses. This particular friend is VERY against conceal carry. I have no problem with someone being against conceal carry, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Now I don't know how much research she has done on the matter, but I have a lot of friends who are very against anything gun related and they don't know much about guns.

I shoot guns. Yes, that's right folks, I shoot guns. Judge me if you want, I'm proud of it. I was part of the first girls trap team at my high school and we did extremely well. I don't understand what all the excitment is about with guns. I know some people use the argument that guns kill people, well doesn't a person have to be operating the gun in order for it to kill someone? People kill people. Not everyone who owns a gun is a homicidal maniac. A lot of people who own guns use them to hunt or go to a gun club and shoot. Are there people who will abuse having a gun? Unfortunately there are, BUT not everyone is like that. My family owns several guns and we use them at a gun club. My husband goes deer and bird hunting every now and then. I would never use a gun to harm another human being. I simply like to go to a gun club and shoot at clay birds.

I'm stepping off my soap box now. Thank you for listening.

Motivation, or lack thereof

I am really lacking motivation for some reason. I got up this morning with the intention of getting on the treadmill for 10 minutes and instead have spent my time on the computer. My lack of motivation extends from exercising, though. I have no real motivation to go to work at all. I'm so tired of feeling like I don't know anything because of the way some people treat me. I have been very down on myself lately and the way people have treated me in the past few weeks certainly hasn't helped any. I have begun to shut down, and that's not a good thing. I did this last year around the same time, so I'm hoping it's just a phase and once the exhaustion kind of wears off I will feel better. Unfortunately this is one of those situations that require time to know how things will work out. So for now I am going to go get ready for work and make the best of my day.

SWEET!

I just received an email from our photographer letting me know that she has all parts of our albums and DVDs now and will be mailing it out TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited to see everything!!!! We will have everything before our 10 month anniversary!! WooHoo!! I had to share the news!