... lights will guide you home and i will try to fix you...

time flys when your having.... err, have a lot of jobs! 
thats really the whole deal... 
its been a pretty busy month... spent playing in the two plus feet of snow we have up here, cooking everything i can find on pinterest, and just trying to stay warm in the cold, oh and working fifty some hours a week. 
starting from where i last left off...
we spent the last week of october adventuring, waiting for the snow to come down from the mountains...

while we were waiting we decided to go do a little moose "hunting" in photo form! i have to say this... i got a little nervous being that close to a moose... but i am alive to tell the story, if you want to see a picture of how close i was check out my friend 

mrs. s' blog here...

http://jamieandmelissaschroeder.blogspot.com/2011/10/moose.html

mr. moose just hanging out...

so many moose! 

here is the big guy from the other side...

here are a few pics from our hike up powerline, it pretty much follows the power line up in the mountains right next to anchorage.

this is pierre, the reeps first child! 

hiking/walking powerline

we also spent that last weekend hiking around glacier view...

my favorite mountain...

so pretty...

jamie and moki on top of big rock...

just love playing with the sun! 

for halloween j and i had some friends over and made some pioneer woman tacos... super great! also great, making everyone dress up... we had lots of different outfits, including a grizzly bear... which mrs. reep decided to try on and attack j. 

mrs. reep in the grizzly costume... 

mrs. reep as the grizzly attacking j!

we also planned a surprise party for mrs. s. i mean its the big two-five, we should probably do something big! oh... i should mention, mrs. s hates surprises, seriously... hates them... so when we jumped out from her pantry/living room, she got a little flustered and mr. s got in a little bit of trouble! but it was also fun! oh and i made killer paula dean carrot cake... yum! 

mr. and mrs. s, my camera had trouble adjusting to the warm after the extreme cold! 

mrs. s and her cake! 

okay... well thats pretty much it... the last week or so has been pretty interesting... i have been a little down in the dumps, just missing being home around this time of the year, and just have been wanting to be back home, but... it can only get better from here... oh and if anyone finds a money tree anytime soon, hook me up with a ticket home for christmas! deal! 
here is the list for the day...
things to do before i move away from ak: 
one: shoot the aurora
two: stars capes
three: play softball at midnight
four: hike anthracite, flat top, maybe a few more! 
five: ice climb
six: visit the arctic circle
seven: take a denali tour
eight: visit juneau and the southeast, prudhoe bay, and the arctic ocean pretty much anywhere i can go. 
nine: fly in a small plane 
ten: fish for salmon
eleven: see the ididarod
twelve: adopt a klee kai, seriously... so cute! 
thirteen: pick blueberries
fourteen: snow shoe
fifteen: ski aleyeskala
sixteen: visit the north pole and see santa
seventeen: halibut fish 
eighteen: take the ferry system and camp on it
nineteen: hike around a mountain to feel stuck in them!
twenty: see the whales 
twentyone: see russia


thats all i got! 
peace love and sunshine
a.