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We are settled in Austin and have had lots of family visiting with us here in Texas. Dan and Val flew in about a week ago and Keri, Danielle, and Jordan flew in last wednesday and then Danielle's boyfriend flew in on monday. We have a full house and it has been a blast. We went to San Antonio yesterday to Six Flags. They open the park just for Christmas, we got to see the tree lighting ceremony,

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We have been in Austin for three weeks now. Scott is still looking for a job, most companies have put off their hiring processes until after the holidays. We took a drive to San Antonio today to pick up some medicine for Scott. He has been involved in a drug study for quite some time now and wanted to continue with it, the closest clinic that is participating is in San Antonio so we took a little

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Dear Santa, I have been a really good boy this year. I just want you to know that my parents took me on a 13 day drive and I was very well behaved. I had to share the back seat with the cat who doesn’t really like me, but I was nice and let her sit on my lap, once. I shared my bib with her and my peanut butter and jelly sandwich too. So I think I should be on the nice list for this Christmas. My

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We decided to make it a long day and go all the way to Austin. It turned out to be a 12 hour day, but it was worth the drive, John was really good and the roads were great! It totaled to be 690 miles. We arrived home at 10:30pm. We were all deliriously tired. We have already gotten new cell phones so we will have Texas numbers now. We will be contacting everyone to let them know of our new

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We left Price, Utah at 9am with a temperature of 43 degrees. We are going to go through Moab today; it should be neat to see again. We took a detour into Arches National Park. It was awesome! We took several pictures and a couple videos; you will have to go to our flickr site to view them. We stopped in Moab, UT for lunch and it was a warm 66 degrees, very nice. The farther we drive the uglier it

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Left Spring Creek at 10:15am, it was 50 degrees. It will be an easy drive today. We drove by the Great Salt Flats. It always amazes me how flat they really are. Shortly after we passed the salt flats we stopped to have a late lunch with Clinton and Summer and the girls in Tooele, Utah. We met them at a McDonald’s so the kids could play together. It was nice to visit with them and to get updated

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Today we hung out with the Draper Family. We sent the boys (my cousins) off to school and then vaccuumed the car out. We met my uncle Shane for lunch and then we went to Big 5 sporting goods store to get me a pair of running shoes. Shane helped me pick out a pair that will hopefully prevent me from getting shin splints. Then he challenged me to come to Spring Creek next July for a 5K run they are

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We left Idaho Falls at 10am the temperature was 36 degrees, blue skies and not much wind. Going to be a great day for a drive, we only have 300 miles to go. We bought an atlas last night at Wal-Mart to see what route we are going to take from Spring Creek, Nevada. We have been back and forth on if we wanted to go straight across going through SLC or if we should go south and then east through Las

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We left Great Falls about 9:30am and it was 45 degrees. We stopped in Butte, Montana for a lunch break and ate our sandwiches in the McDonald’s play land so John could run around and expend some energy. He loved it; it was his first time playing in a play land like that. It was fun to watch him learn his way around in the maze. We got a call from my cousin Emily who lives in Afton, Wyoming. She

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We left Edmonton around 9:30am with nice weather and 46 degrees out. Our last stop in Canada was in Lethbridge, I had 10 Canadian dollars left that we needed to spend, so we bought a few things at the gas station and was able to get it down to the penny. We didn’t want any funny money left once we crossed the border. It was a nice, quiet and an uneventful drive today, although Scott hooted and

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We enjoyed a relaxing day touring around the mall. We had breakfast at McDonald’s and as we were looking at the menu Scott started screaming like a girl. “They have my sandwich,” he says, “the bagel breakfast sandwich with bacon, egg and cheese.” I truly thought he was going to have to sit down for a minute to catch his breath. He always gets mad at chain restaurants when they get rid of the

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We left Fort St John a little later than we wanted 10:15am. The roads were clear and the skies were blue, so it was okay. Only 400 mile trip today, not much to report on the days drive, it was pretty uneventful, except for kittycow. We were just leaving Grande Prairie at about 1:30pm and I was getting sandwiches out of the cooler for the boys. I was facing the back of the car helping John get

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We left Watson Lake at 7:55am. It didn’t snow over night but it was a cold 14 degrees. We ran into some Buffalo about 30 minutes outside of Watson Lake. They were nestled warmly in the snow. The roads have been pretty much snow packed the entire day. We are still able to keep a good speed though. As we approached Muncho Lake area we saw two ravens on the side of the road; when we got closer we

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We left Whitehorse at 11am this morning, kind of a lazy morning I guess you could say. It was snowing and 21 degrees when we left. The roads seemed to be getting worse, and a few hours down the road it was confirmed. We pulled into Watson Lake at 5pm. It took us 6 hours to go a little over 300 miles. We saw two moose on the side of the road, not much else other than a bunch of animal’s tracks

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We left Burnt Paw Cabins in Tok at 9:00 am. We enjoyed a nice hot breakfast provided by the Cabins. The Canadian border is 90 miles away. We made it to Whitehorse at about 5:30pm, around 398 miles. We are staying at the High Country Inn. It was a nice drive today Scott and John behaved themselves and the cat slept the entire way. We ate dinner at the High Country Inn, we started off sitting in

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We hit the road at 10:25 am; it was a beautiful day for driving. John and the cat were snug in their seats ready for a long winter drive. 319 miles to Tok no problem… the further we drove on the Glenn Allen highway the windier it became, we took a picture of the windstorm when we were just past Sutton. The mountain ranges were beautiful. We drove past St. Wrangle Range as well as the Alaska Range

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Well, we are taking the plunge. We are hitting the road saturday the 31st of October! Yes it's scary, we are travelling the Alaska Highway with a toddler and a cat. I have recieved lots of advice via my facebook page and duct tape pretty much sums up how the trip will be going. LOL. Thanks Aunt Amy!We plan on the trip taking between 11-15 days. We are going to stop and visit aunt Melody and uncle

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We are still waiting for our house to sell. We have open houses every weekend and have had a few during the week. We don't live in a subdivision so it is a little more difficult to get people in to see the house. We are ready whenever it does sell.We have some family coming by this weekend and we are planning on going to a park for a picnic. Amy's(Scott's sister) boys aren't feeling too well, so

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Well, alot has been going on since the last post. Scott was sick in the hospital. He is doing much better now. He has been home for a few weeks and is back to work full time.We have decided it would be best for us to move closer to a hospital that will be able to take better care of Scott when/if he gets sick. He will eventually need a double lung transplant and we can not get that kind of care

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So now that Scott is out of the hospital we have decided to move to Texas to be closer to the hospital where if/when he needs a transplant we will be ready for it. We are currently in Austin TX staying with Scott's dad. We spent the 4th of July weekend in Dallas scouting out houses and different areas to live in. We found a few areas that we really like and hope to find a job near one of them.We

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Well, we have been quite busy the past month with Scott in the hospital. He contracted CMV which is a virus: What is Cytomegalovirus (CMV)?CMV is a common virus that infects most people at some time during their lives but rarely causes obvious illness. It is a member of the herpes virus family. Other members of the herpes virus family cause chickenpox, infectious mononucleosis, fever blisters (

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I convinced Scott to go to an Awards Banquet for my job. It was a banquet for the Alaska Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACVB). It was either a black tie event or the theme was 50's. We choose neither, it is hard enough getting Scott to where a tie!We actually had a good time. It was held at the new Anchorage Convention Center the Da'neiena Center. Dinner was excellent and the awards were great (

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Well, we are anxiously awaiting some warm weather. It seems the tourism season is starting off a bit slow this year, to be expected though. I have new staff starting work on monday, new staff is always fun and interesting. It makes it feel like summer is getting closer. My dad is coming back to AK April 23rd, he seems pretty excited to get back to work. We are excited to see him, John has changed

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Today Keri (Scott's) sister and I ran with the reindeer. I don't know what else to say it kind of speaks for itself!! It was fun! Lots of funny people that dressed up for the event! This is a picture of Ted Sadler walking one of the many reindeer to the start line.

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We are home from San Francisco now. We had a wonderful time with the Draper Family.Day 1: We went down to buy tickets for the Alcatraz tour but it was sold out for the day, so we bought tickets for the next day. It was raining at the time so we all hoofed it back to the hotel to change into some dry clothes. Then we all jumped into the Expedition and we went to the California Academy of Science

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John is getting so big. He has got the to stage where he notices when he is alone in a room. If Scott or I walk out of the room he gets a whimper going, as soon as we return he continues on playing. It is fun to watch him grow and change daily.He is up on all fours rocking back and forth, thinking really hard on how to get the cats tail. He really wants to chase her, we give him another week and

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We are going to San Francisco in February. Grandma Marsha ordered us a cool new backpack for John so we don't have to struggle with a stroller all the time. Scott has never been to San Fran. I have a few times but it has been a few years. We are excited to get out of Alaska. We found some fun activities to do while there.We found an indoor wind chamber where you are taught how to sky dive and

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So we have had a few weeks of sub zero temps, so yesterday it started warming up, this morning we woke up to water in our kitchen! It is now 41 degrees (above zero) and our ice dam on the back side of our roof is melting and leaking through the roof into the kitchen. So Scott woke up to water on the kitchen floor. He has gone up on the roof to shovel the snow off and he was told by a roof

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Well, the party went well. We had 26 people over for Christmas Eve. We played some games and did a gift exchange and ate lots of food. I think everyone had a good time. Christmas morning we went to Keri's house to open presents with the girls. Then we came home and opened presents with Grandma and Papa. We enjoyed the day laying around playing with puzzles and sleeping. Take a look at our flickr

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We are having a Christmas Eve party at our house this year. We have invited friends and family. I hope we will have enough room for everyone, it might get a little cozy. I went shopping with Val today and we found the perfect Christmas tree! I also put the nativity figurines up that Marsha Mom gave me. As Scott would say it looks like Santa threw up in here...we'll post more later.Merry Christmas

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed your time together.We spent our weekend in Seward with Scott's folks. Scott and Billy worked on getting the granite counter tops installed, with some help from brother Dan. It was a very relaxing weekend for John and I. We weren't much help... Lot's of napping! I have added a link to some pictures of the kitchen we have

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Hello everyone!Well this is our first blog entry. Not really sure what I should write, but here goes.We have been busy with Mom & Billy's kitchen in Seward. We gutted it and now we are building it back up. Billy is spending this week mudding and sanding the walls. Next weekend we will probably install the laminate floor and maybe get started on installing some of the new cabinets.John was a

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