A Mini Vacation

Andy and I went down to Girdwood with some friends over the weekend.  It's only about 40 miles from Anchorage but it still feels good to get out of Anchorage, even if it is for only one night.  We stayed at a friend's cabin and spent much of our time cross-country and downhill skiing.  The Alyeska Resort is walking distance from the cabin.  It was very relaxing!  

Other than that, we really haven't been doing too much.  Our Sundays are no longer consumed by football (I think I'm still grieving the Packers' loss).  We try to get out cross-country skiing a couple times a week.  We've gotten a lot of snow lately so the skiing has been great.

School continues to be school.  Andy and I run the Student Council at our school and we, just recently, started up a recycling program.  Alaska does not make it easy to recycle but, with this program, the Alaska Waste company comes right to the school to pick up our mixed paper.  We are both really excited to get something like this going at our school.

Enjoy the photos!   

This is the area where we went cross-country skiing. It's a HUGE area for skiing, dog sledding, snowshoeing, etc....


Brrrr...the temperature was hovering around 0 degrees throughout the weekend.

Happy New Year!

We hope everyone is having a great start to 2008.  Andy and I go back to work tomorrow after our 2-week break.  I can't believe we are already 1/2 done with the school year.  It's only going to go quickly from this point to the end of the year.  Phew...it's going to be a busy one!

Just wanted to put on a few photos.  Enjoy!

We're rockin' out on Guitar Hero on Christmas morning.


We had our friends, Angie, Jeremy and their little 2-month old baby, Natalie, over on Christmas day.



We spent New Year's Eve at a Blues Traveler concert. This photo is a bit blurry.