Head north to Alaska! Head north!

I know there is a rumor going around that we are moving.......well the rumors are true! On July 7th Steve and I are moving to Anchorage, Alaska. Why Alaska!? Steve's older brother James and his wife Sarah live there and James can get Steve a job at the Alaska railroad as an electrician where James works as a conductor. Can't Steve get a job in New Hampshire!? No, We have looked while he was in school and since he graduated and apparently no one is hiring an electrician. Doesn't Steve have a job!? Yes, but he is working at the same job he had since he was 17 and he doesn't wan't to work there forever and it doesn't pay well enough for a young married couple who want to get a house and have kids one day. Can't you get a job and help him out and so you can stay!? Yes and no. I am trying to finish my sign language degree and I can't work and go to school at the same time because of my nerve disease, it will overwhelm my body too much. (I am planning on finishing my degree in Alaska so don't worry.) How are you going to get to there!? We bought a truck and are going to get a closed trailer and drive. Drive!? Are you crazy!? How long is it going to take to drive!? Well we are crazy I guess. It will take us about 2 weeks,We are leaving July 7th and will get to Alaska July 23rd-24th (Good birthday for me which is the 23rd). We will camp or sleep in hotels along the way and are going to take our time to take in the sites. So there you have it. We have prayed about it and we feel that Alaska is the place we need to be right now. I don't know what else to say about Alaska and the move so if you have any other questions ask us. We haven't blogged for a while because of getting things ready for the move and we are still helping Steve's parents do things around the house such as the kitchen and building a deck and of course it has to be done by the time we leave. Steve is pretty handy to have around. Will try to update you all on here more often. We will try to blog on the way but if we can't we will blog when we get to Alaska. That is all for now!

-Kierra

P.S.
For those of you who don't get the title reference or do.Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3tAJS0wpRY

Painting,holidays,school and clubs!

Sorry we haven't been writing on here for a while stuff has been crazy! Here is why.

We were painting my in laws kitchen cabinets (Steven will blog about that later) and we were on a time crunch for that.

Holidays! For Halloween we carved pumpkins and dressed up as a cowboy and a cowgirl while we passed out candy,here are some pictures from Halloween.

Cowboy Steven.

Cowboy Kierra.

Our pumpkins. Mine is the face ans Steven did the Tardis. Yes we are Doctor Who nerds.

So moving on to Christmas! We spent the morning with Steven's parents and in the afternoon went to my parents house. My Grandma Lewis and my Aunt Shelly came up to visit from Salt Lake City,Utah. It was nice to visit with family and see my Grandma and aunt again. Also my mother in law made us some pajama pants. (yes we are nerds)

Our pajama pants. Mine are the Tardis (blue ones) and Stevens are the Daleks (brown ones)

School! Steven in two weeks is going to start his LAST semester! Yay!! He gets to graduate sometime after May! So if you need any electrical work done on your house call Steven! haha  

Clubs! Steven is in a Model railroad club doing his train thing, he loves it, he goes when he isn't working and when we aren't too busy with other things. I am planning on joining a book club that some ladies from our church put on. I was planning to start going a while ago but I was busy with school,work and all that fun stuff. So hopefully I will be able to start going to that.

One last thing before I close. One of Stevens companions form his mission will be coming to visit us in a couple weeks! Steven is excited to see him again and I am excited to meet him. Steven will probably blog about that also after he leaves.

Anyway! Sorry if all that was a lot to take in and all jumbled together but that has been our busy couple of months. We will try to blog more regularly and update you all on things as soon as we can.Talk to you later and soon! ( We hope)