Hold the Phone

I was talking to my mom the other day and she said she was wearing shorts and that it was about 80 degrees. As soon as I picked my jaw up off the ground I marched over to check our temperature and it said that it was 5 degrees. I started freaking out saying that we were having a heat wave! Please note that the day before we had a blizzard and the weeks before our blizzard we were having negative 10's 15's as high temps. I don't know if any of you reading this wished you had winter this year, but let me tell you, we've had plenty and to be quite honest....I'm ready for summer. Here in Alaska we don't really get a spring, not like a Midwest spring anyway. Last year a couple of days after school got out is when the river ice broke up.

Ben just returned from Anchorage as he took his Science Fair team to state. Every one of our kids got either first or second in their category! Good job, Mountain Village Strivers!!! Let me back up a couple of weekends ago. A group of us went to St. Marys to visit some friends and we were able to catch some dog races and go to their store where they have a deli! Chicken nuggets have never tasted so good. Ha, I joke. They really weren't that great and they didn't feel so great in your stomach afterward either, but at the time it seems like a GREAT idea. It was a great day though and we were able to get out and ride our snow machine. The day before we went to St. Marys we went across the river and were just going through some of those trails and as we were going we came within 40 yards of a moose. It was just standing in the path which let me tell you...the paths are only about 10ft wide if that. The moose and I made eye contact as I was telling Ben to turn around. As we were turning around another moose came out. I was freaking out, but it was pretty cool thinking back on it. Ben had his gun, so it would have ended poorly for the moose if he chose to charge us. As we were coming home we saw some pretty good drifts, so I attempted my first snow machine jump. We have such a big machine that I hardly got any air, but it was pretty fun.

Ok, fast forward to this last weekend. Ben left on Thursday and so I had a girls night on Friday night. We all made something breakfast related and had breakfast for dinner. It was pretty fun! We also ran out of water for the 100th time this year. The water remained off until Sunday morning. The internet went out from Friday until Monday around noon. I'm kind of embarrassed to put this, but I watched SIX movies over the weekend! I couldn't do laundry or do dishes...so I watched movies. I woke up on Saturday and had no voice and had a big headache, so yep...I watched movies. ABC family really is at fault here. They had good movies one after another. On Sunday I had one of my students visit me and we made bread together. It was a lot of fun.

Ben just got back today and surprised me with flowers and a haircut. Let me tell you, he is looking fiiiiine! I'm so happy he is home. Anyway, my eyes are about to close, so I'm out. Thanks for reading y'all!

P.S. The pictures are of Ben's High Octane kids, my student who helped me make bread, flowers, and Mountain Village.

With love,
Ben and Anne