Alright Elena..................

Here it is. The moment you have all been waiting for.

Right? I know you've all been sitting next to your computers waiting for this:

We are MOVING!

What? You say no big deal? People move all the time?

Well, people don't actually move all the time to where we are going.

We are moving to Alaska.

Okay, so people do move there.........

But we are moving to Kotzebue, Alaska.

Ha Ha! See you've never even heard of it, right?

That's because it is a village of about 3000 people located 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Yep, I said 30 miles North of the Arctic Circle!

There, see the red dot? That's where we're going.

Here it is from the air:

See that strip of asphalt running through the bottom right corner?

That is the airport runway, on which Alaska Airlines lands 737.........

So I expect that ya'all will be coming to visit me sometime because you've always wanted to go to Alaska.

It's a long story on how this came about, but it is a good one, in which God has a mighty hand.

Sometime in the very near future I will be sharing it with you, but for now I have the monumental task of sorting, selling and packing up our house to focus on.

But soon, very soon I will give you the REST OF THE STORY. (RIP Paul Harvey!)

In the meantime, I leave you with this

(it is the blog of a gal that lives in Kotzebue. Go check it out, you'll be amazed and might even think we are certifiably crazy!

**We are leaving in 2.5 weeks and in that time we have to sell or get rid of nearly everything we own. the company that we have taken a job with provides furnished housing, so we are taking very little more than our clothes, the boys' toys, linens and kitchen stuff. Other than that, it all goes. We are having a giant garage sale this Friday and Saturday from 9-4, so if you are in the area, stop by! We also have a very cute house for sale or rent and two cars for sale!**