Austins First Car

Well..it's official!! Austin bought his first car yesterday! It is a '87 Subaru Gl, black with two doors. It is in amazing condition for being 22 years old and an Alaskan vehicle. It has some rust around the wheel wells...but it a perfect first car! The inside is amazingly clean, and he is on cloud 9! We were telling him that this would be a great car to have for the next two years...then when/if he joins the military, he could sell it for a few hundred bucks and be set. He can get a newer one once he is in a dorm or something. That is the plan for now....now he just has to get a licence...but I think it will be better to learn in his own car than us using our cars! ;oD

Pictures from our trip to Seward

We went down to Seward last weekend and ended up at the aquarium. It was very nice, and offered a lot of education besides just looking at the animals. Of course...my family was being my family. I swear I have one of the goofiest families, but I would't trade them for anything!!

Baby girl is sick

We had been fighting what we thought was a chest cold for about a week and a half, but Autumn was getting croupier and croupier. I got and appointment for her and found my suspicions were correct...she has pneumonia. I knew as soon as I saw her xrays. She has consolidated pneumonia in both lungs, but more so in her right side. She is on an antibiotic, but not the doctors first choice...but she is allergic to so many antibiotics. We seems to be responding well to the meds, and finally able to get some of the gunk out...and keeping the fever down. We will go back for a follow-up xray in 30 days unless she needs to go back on before then. We will keep you posted. Love to all!!

Wow...did I let the ball slip on this. Life has been so busy and I apologize for not keeping up with this. Baseball is back in season and Ayden has been doing some pitching during practice. He is so excited!!So our Monday and Wednesday evenings are full. The kids only have three weeks of school left...then come a season of "I'm Bored!!" he he!jk!
About a week ago a friend and I took the kids to North Pole,AK and went to see Santa's Workshop. The drive was about six hours, but we left early in the morning and it was a peaceful drive. We spent the night with my old friends the Sommers..so great to see them again. Ayden wanted to look up his friend Wyatt, but there really wasn't any time. We will definitely go up there again soon, and we will look them up
then.
I took a permanent position with Liberty Tax... I am the manager for the summer and in charge of three stores!! Whew! Talk about keeping you busy! I am also still in school, but finals are next week. I am not enrolled over he summer, but I do plan on CLEPing some classes. That should help keep me busy and out of trouble!!
The weather has been gorgeous this last week. It has actually gotten above 70!! Blue skies and a slight breeze...perfect!!

The Koehler kids have always been create when it comes to driving me crazy...but here they decided to make a "Music Video" to Avril Lavigne's "when you're gone".....this is an insight to the insanity I live with everyday ;oD They did this with my camera and added the music, so the words don't always match the lips...but too funny not to share! Let me know what you think!! I think I need to get these kids into a theatre group!!!

Mt. Redoubt

Mount Redoubt is a volcano located about 100 mile from Anchorage. Starting back in January it began to rumble and groan. We were put on alert and waited...and waited. Last week everything we had been waiting for happened. History shows that this is a very unpredictable volcano and that lst time it erupted it was active for five months!!! So far this week it has erupted roughly 20 times and has sent ash 65,000 ft. We are currently all tucked inside due to ash fall here in Anchorage, but it is the first ash we have seen. We have been fortunate so far and it has all blown elsewhere due to wind patterns. It is a small trace so far, and sort of exciting. I have attached some pic's from our news site...these are pretty cool! Enjoy!!! The top one is from the eruption at 1:40am this morning...lightening stuck in the ash plume!!! AWESOME!!

Behind the times...

I have to apologize for falling behind on the blog. Things have been so crazy here. I started my class last week, and am waiting to see my grade on my first assignment. The whole juggling school,work, and mom thing is a little more stressful than I was thinking. People are going to have to learn to adjust and be flexible around here.
The other night I was dreaming tax prep and looking where to put a certain bible verse into the file....yeah..I need to watch what eat/drink before bed. I actually haven't sleep good all week. Monday was one of those days where everything that could go wrong, did. Before I headed off to work, Adam made a comment about us getting robbed...great, lets plant that worry in my head. Tuesday was class, and that night I dreamt about getting robbed at work and got woke up because I was screaming in my sleep. Ghee, wonder why that happened!! Thanks honey! Wednesday night, our boiler that heats the house broke. Waking up to a freezing house is horrible. They managed to get that fixed by late morning but it took all day yesterday to get the housed warmed back up.
The kiddos are all doing fine. They start their spring break today after school. Since I am not working tonight, I thought that we could go do something fun. The younger two want to go swimming, but the thought of getting in a swimsuit is not that appealing to me. Speaking of swimming...Autumn went to a birthday party about a week ago. My first time at the pool here...very nice...but I was surprised at my daughter. We knew she has grown (we had to get new pants since she was literally popping to buttons on her old ones), but my twiggy girl is no more. She is getting the fluffies that kids usually get before they spout up again, but it looked so much worse because her swimsuit was too small. She has gone from a 6 slim to an 8 in a few months!!! I found an adorable "Speedo" suit at Costco, got seven, and had to exchange for the eight. Poor Ayden is the only one not getting bigger right now!! Austin is just shy of 6'2", Autumn is getting bigger in every way (taller/wider), but poor Bubby is stuck! I know his time will come...and then watch out! We are already gearing up for Baseball with him. Not sure how it goes up here...we still have snow up to my thigh...do we play in the snow?!! I'll let you know how that goes!