Well it has been an interesting November and December so far to say the least. November started out VERY cold, temperatures hovering around -5 to -18 below for the daytime highs, 2nd snowiest November on record! In comes December and the pineapple express, yep RAIN and temps in the 40's and 50's, can you believe it?!?! In Alaska no less, Dave will never admit it but hmmm maybe there is something to the global warming thing?
The rain has turned our roads to a mess of slush, ice and mud, such a joy to drive in let me tell you! But hey beats feet and feet of snow (again I will deny I typed this, it was an evil snow hating wench, she high jacked the computer, that is my story and I am sticking to it!) David is in morning as the snow is all melting and it looks closer to May at this point than December. :)
Lets see what has been happening.........
Krista got a job at Chilis, she is a hostess and is liking what she is doing. Her schedule keeps her busy and so does school. She is learning the responsibilities of life, you know the fun ones, Job, Bills, Gas, how much everything costs. It is always funny to hear her say will you buy me this and when Dave and I reply, you have a job, if you want to go tanning you can pay for it, to which her reply is but that is $50, and I have to pay insurance and gas for my car. We just reminder her that this is life and sometimes there are choices to be made. She is doing really well though and learning to save. We have been discussing a lot about colleges, scholarships, and other realities in life, like how will you pay for college? how will you eat? you all know these as we have all lived them at one point. Top Roman noodles for a month, pizza that lasts for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 3 days straight, ahhhh the fond memories of college. :)) In all seriousness she is really wanting to go to Bozeman, MT (MSU) as they have a great engineering and education program. Her ACT scores are really good she is in the top 25% in the nation, so she has a good chance to get scholarships hopefully. She is taking some pretty challenging classes and doing well, I was informed that I would more than likely be paying up for all her A's this semester LOL. We are very proud of her for doing so well and finding a job.
Ashley is doing well, she is liking the Air Force and talks about making it a career along with getting her college degree in accounting still. She has been sent to the commanders office to help out in his office and she is liking it quite a bit. She was elected the president of her company booster club and pretty much single handedly organized the company Christmas Party. She sold 127 tickets out of the 138 people in her company so it was a huge turn out. She said it went off with out a hitch and everyone had fun. They had games, a DJ, dinner and prizes. She said she hadn't won any of them but her date did lol, she was a bit miffed, that she didn't win. She is living off base with a couple of people, Dave and I wish she would move back on base as then we wouldn't worry as much, but that is not going to happen lol. She is coming home for christmas on the 19th and will arrive on the 20th at 1:50am, joy joy I get to drive in and get her lol, hopefully the pineapple express will stick around and I won't have to manage the ice and snow, but doubt that will actually happen. She is wanting to go snowmachining and to the north pole, see the northern lights and go camping while she is home, hmmmm no problem right LOL. We will see how much of that we can fit in for her. She is excited to come home and see the snow, hopefully we will still have some lol. Other than that she is doing good and enjoying life, which is what Dave and I wanted for her.
Dave and I are doing good, making plans to go to vegas in September of next year when my project is done, and waring it out with each other on a game called "words with friends" essentially scrabble online. He wins some and I win some, but ohhhh how I hate to loose!! especially to words like XU!! who ever heard of XU!!! Honestly!! I have accused him of cheating lately, lol. He is getting the snowmachines ready for the first race coming up on December 18th. We belong to a snowmachine club and he recently got elected chairman of the rules committee, boy is he having fun with that one, NOT, lol. We have people who are trying to "donate" to the club if the rules are formatted the way they want, honestly people get a life! Its not about who has the most money or the most money to throw at their sled, it is about having fun and doing it in a safe family environment. On the even funnier side, I was elected Sargent at Arms for the club since I seem to be the only one who knows Roberts Rules of Order and can play referee with out pissing people off, lol, guess I missed my calling as a middle east peace advisor LOL. Thank goodness the meetings are almost over and the rules are pretty much final, what a chore! But on the bright side it does keep us busy (like that is really our problem ha ha!). We are both looking forward to Christmas and time with Ashley. We wish Krista would've stuck around this Christmas but she really wanted to go home this Christmas so she could spend her 18th birthday at home next year. Dave and I are planning something big for it, but Krista since I know you read this I am NOT going to tell you what that is ha ha!!
Well better run, have to go kick Davids booty at words with friends, hmmm let me see where did I put that dictionary.........
Love and Miss you all!!! Have a Happy and Safe Christmas!!
Dave and Jen
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