Fall Carnivals

This weekend was the annual Fall Carnivals at our schools. Friday night was the carnival at Larry's school, Polaris K-12, and Saturday night saw the carnival at Jessica's school, Ravenwood Elementary. Both carnivals were fundraisers to help raise money to benefit both schools. My school (Polaris) uses the money to help pay for field trips and intensive classes and Ravenwood's carnival goes to the PTA to disburse to school programs.

Either way, the carnival was all about having fun for the little guys. They enjoyed both carnivals immensely and ran well into the night and past their bedtimes. It was all worth it though, to show off their costumes and collect candy. I was like a proud peacock at Polaris as staff and students crowded around both Kierin and Connor and talked about how beautiful they both are. Jessica also enjoyed showing off her children, especially to her students. She is so proud of both of her children that she really shines when talking about them or showing them off.

Let It Snow...

I just wanted to throw out a quick blog here to let everyone know that we are now getting our first official snow fall here at the Frick Jr Homestead. It has been snowing since late afternoon and there is approximately 1 inch, and it is supposed to snow another inch tonight and possibly more tomorrow evening. yeah...I was thanking God every morning when I woke up and saw that it hadn't snowed. Oh well, I guess it had to happen sooner or later. Now my commute time to Los Anchorage to work just got longer.

Kierin just came downstairs. He's pretty excited about the snow, but I think he's the only one. Of course, now that it has snowed, he thinks that it is Christmas time!

It is after 9:00 pm right now-Jessica just got home and I didn't get home until almost 8:00. There was a tractor trailer that jacknifed on the highway, closing all but one lane. It took me from 4:00 to 7:38 to get home. Woo hoo-winter in Alaska!

PS I will take some pictures and post them ASAP (probably Saturday)

Week In Review

I just wanted to drop a quick update in here and let everyone know that everything is going great here in Alaska. We had our first dusting of snow in the backyard yesterday. It was just enough to make everything icy and slippery. However, by the time I realized I should take a picture to put on the website, the sun had come out (yesterday was just beautiful) and the snow had disapeared.

Kierin is doing great. He had hockey practice yesterday and today. He has a brand new pair of hockey skates that he is adjusting to, but he'll be back to skating great in just a few practices. He will be assigned to his hockey team today and will found out who his new teammates are. He is pretty excited about playing hockey, but he is soooo tired after practice-the coaches really run them ragged!

Connor is also doing great. He celebrated his 7th month birthday this week, on the 17th. He is getting a lot of new teeth. They seem to be coming all in at once-he has four, count 'em four, new teeth on the top! It is making him a little fussy, especially at night, but most of the time he is the happiest little baby that I've ever seen.

Snow and Ice

Winter is coming as you can see. The termination dust is creeping its way down the mountains and it won't be long until the ground down where we live is covered by snow. It happens every year, but it comes as an unpleasant surprise year after year.

In other news, Kierin is officially on a hockey team. He had his first practice yesterday at the Mac. He's a pretty good little skater and it was exciting to see the future NHL Hall of Famer out there on the ice. This practice was a "getting to know you" session and over the next few weeks the coaches will divide about 30 kids into 3 teams based on age and experience. Kierin may not be the best or the most experienced player, but he gets in there and is involved with whatever is going on. I think that he'll do pretty good when the season gets fully underway. Its a change for Jessica and I, though, to go and sit there and not jump out on the ice to tell him what to do.

Halloween is Coming!

As you can see from the pictures, the boys are getting bigger! Is hard to remember a time when these two dudes were not in our lives. Now look at them-Kierin is "reading" the most important part of the paper-the funnies! And Connor is helping his mommy figure out how to send her email and operate her new laptop.

Anyway, today was spent preparing the Frick Jr. household for the first big event of the Holiday Season-Halloween! We went into town and visited Bell's Nursery to pick out the perfect pumpkin for the family Jack-O-Lantern. It took a while, but Kierin finally chose the best looking pumpkin-perfectly round and just the right size. We will be posting pictures of Halloween costumes as soon as we can-Kierin has chosen a character from "Toy Story" and Connor is planning to go as the beloved Winnie The Pooh character, Tigger! You can be sure that both children will be extremely cute and will make off with a ton of candy on October 31st.

Finally, as you can see, Kierin finally found his newest most valued possession-a cowboy hat! So, he would like to end this blog by saying to all-"Howdy Partner!"

Fall Is Here!

Its that time of year again. It is time for Alaska's short fall. The leaves are beautiful and multi-colored for about a week and then they all fall and everything gets cooler and turns a brownish color. Fall in Alaska is really pretty with the yellow and red mountains and woods for about a week, but then it gets cold and ugly (The only uglier time is Break Up-when the winter's worth of garbage and dog poop comes up through the snow as it melts). In addition, its a waiting game. Winter is right around the corner, its just a matter of when the snow will start to fly. We feel it will probably snow a great deal this winter since it has been a very wet summer and fall.

Still, on a positive note, it is a beautiful time-you just have to get out and enjoy it!

Connot forget Connor

I was gently informed that I forgot a picture of the other child! and that some of you might be interested in seeing the little fella, who is closing in on his 7th month birthday!

Anyway, please let me know if there is anything that you guys want to see or hear about-I have never done this before and am looking for topics to add to the website.

Fun in AK

No, this isn't a recent photo! Basically, I wanted to see if I could successfully post a picture onto our blog. And I really like this picture, so...

My First Blog Ever!

Hello all-

I don't know who will ever read this, but here it is! I guess that I want to use this to share information with all those folks that know and/or love us that live outside of Alaska and want to know what exactly we've been up to. I hope we can keep this thing up to date.

I guess keep checking back here to see new pictures and new information about us!