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Hello everyone and welcome to your new and exciting adventure with "The Fabulous Stricklan Four", yes I know you are wondering the who???? Well we are a blended family of four people who love each other, well at least most of the time. HA HA!! To our friends and family we are the crazy people who love to live up here in Alaska and commune with nature (I guess that is what you call hunting and fishing ha ha). We love to explore also love to spend time with our family, when we can. We recently where voted off the island, and promoted to the mainland of Alaska, yeah us!!! We have discovered many new and interesting things on the mainland, like Moose, hmmm they are everywhere and they like to walk out in front of you on the highways. Bears, they do not ALL hibernate in the winter, who would've guessed that one. Oh and we now get to see both black bear and grizzlies, not sure if we are excited for one of those to be looking in our windows come spring. Yes the mainland is full of fun and interesting things to do and people to stare at. It truly does take all kinds to make up the USA, especially if you happen to be looking for the opposite sex, but here in Alaska we have a saying, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd." Think on that for a bit ha ha!!!

We are enjoying our new surroundings and the space our new house has given us, the girls found that they actually like each other much better when they don't have to share a bedroom. Dave and I find that we like them much better now that we have our very own bathroom. For those of you who knew us we had a very small 2 1/4 bedroom house (1/4 bedroom was a small office) and 1 bathroom. Now you may say hmmm that doesn't sound that bad, think back on it this way, "oh we shouldn't have eaten at the new taco bell before the health inspector had given it a stamp of approval" now think about one bathroom and four people with not so happy tummies!!! Dave and I are happy to have bought our first house, no it is not our dream house, but it is a nice house with room for everyone, and room to have people over. We are discovering the "joys" of owning a house, like hey the dryer is broken cause the vent is plugged up, oh wait a minute there is no landlord to call or government maintenance guy, we have to fix it, so four hours later, with lots of lovely colorful comments we now have a working dryer!! Yeah US!! David is discovering that I can be quite the thrifty shopper and have kept him busy with "guess what I got off of craigslist today, and oh by the way it only weighs 500lbs and has to go up two flights of stairs, which of course the girls and I will help you get it upstairs, AND it only cost us $100.00 bucks!!" You can imagine the pride and joy beaming out of his face at me, you can feel the love from here can't you??!! It quickly followed that up with the "I Love you" card, which of course made everything all better! ha ha!!

So I think we are almost all settled in with the girls rooms almost all done, minus some painting that is yet to be done, and I think I will stop buying craigslist treasures, well at least I will once I buy us a dining room table, ha ha!! I will try and post some video of the house and of our latest adventure at the Willow Winter Carnival and vintage snow machine fest. I just have to edit it first ha ha. To all our family and friends we miss you and wish you where here!!!