The Comeback Kids

Hello Blog and World!

We've been absent for awhile but we have internet at home again so we're going to try to get back on this thing :)

So update: Nial and I just celebrated our 1st year anniversary by taking a weekend trip to the Olympic Peninsula. We camped the first night (23 degrees!) and that was coooooooold. We went through Port Angeles and then onto Forks (fictional home of Twilight characters, Edward and Bella) which was tiny and kind of sadly twisted by all the attention. It is still VERY SMALL but has converted some businesses to reflect the Twilight theme. We saw a restaurant that had been re-named and a whole store dedicated to the films and books with a tour of Forks (haha).

We went to the Hoh Rainforest and saw this huge Spruce. It was FREEZING, literally the whole time we were there so we really are looking forward to visiting again when things are greener instead of frosted.

Driving through the National forest took us past Lake Cresent, which is a secluded huge lake. It was my favorite thing we saw. It was especially cool because it was so cold, the fog lay over some of it all day.

Nearer our campsite we took a short walk to a waterfall. There was an older couple there, taking pictures together. It was really cute, they had nice cameras and tripods each. I love seeing couples sharing in hobbies/interests together.

Our last night we stayed in Port Townsend, which is an adorable town on the very NE tip of the Oly Peninsula. Much of the downtown was built before and around 1990 so its very interesting and beautiful. We went to a Creperie and had coffee and crepes before exploring. We saw the museum of wooden boats, there is an annual Wooden Boat Festival hosted in Port Townsend.

If you're wondering about Mr. Shaggy, he got a haircut shortly after this trip :) and is now a very cold guy. ;)

Other life updates:

We are trying to get a job in Alaska for the "summer." In reality if we are blessed enough to get it it will be 6 months w/ little to no break mining gold. Half of you reading this probably think I'm kidding. No joke, through a friend we may have the opportunity to go work at an open pit mine in the middle of AK for 6 months straight. Daunting right? My confidence that we can do this lies mostly in Nial's confidence. Mostly I think: if he thinks we can do it, we probably can. We should find out a solid answer whether we're going or not within the next 3-4 weeks. We are very excited about this idea and now are just praying that all the pieces fall into place.

Nial is working at the Home Depot still and has great reviews from his boss. He has learned a lot about Plumbing (his department) and is frequently asked for by customers. I still work at Endzone Athletics, training volleyball players in fitness and mechanics. I am also coaching a 16's team. We were fortunate enough to have the ability to scholorship players this year and got a lot of great and unexpected talent. We play our second tournament this weekend.

We'll try to be back soon!