Our Life in Alaska and Beyond

Noelle turned 9 shortly after we moved to AK. Her birthday was on a Sunday and we kept the celebration pretty simple; sledding with family, a few presents, and instead of cake she opted for hand dipped cones and ice cream. It was a fun day, and we're so happy to have our sweet Noelle Belle! 👸🏼

While I was living with my parents one day we decided to go to the BYU Museum of Art and the Roots of Knowledge display at UVU. The girls were at school, but we had a great time. We also met Avalon for lunch. (She's studying at UVU.) I loved the artwork at the MOA, and the stained glass at UVU was amazing! So fun! 

Nativity by Brian Kershisnik. Loved seeing this piece in person and how huge it is! (me for scale 😉)

 A few pics from my February camera roll. 💗💗💗 

It's always so fun to go swimming at Chrissy's apartment! The rooftop pool is so cool! 🏊

December was such a busy month, and there are several more pics I wanted to share, so I just put them all together in this post. Happy Holidays! 🎄

We had some friends over for dinner and games, and we also decorated sugar cookies. I love the grinch ones!

We had so many fun things and different activities going on the week before Halloween, I wanted to include them here. So much fun! Happy Halloween! 🎃

Walking over to the ward Halloween carnival. The sunset was 😍. Robyn was a witch, Noelle was a police officer, and Ruby was Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. (Robyn and Ruby switched it up later in the week, haha.)

A few weeks ago our library held a bookmark contest and Noelle won her age group! Earlier this week we were able to go to the library to pick it up in person. It was so fun to see her artwork in print! She's the best little artist (her little drawings are the cutest!) and we're so proud of her! She loves all kinds of art (painting, coloring, play-doh) and she wants to be an artist when she grows up. 🎨🖌The library had set aside 15 bookmarks for each winner so we'll send some to family members too. Enjoy these cute pics! 

It was single digits while taking these, 🥶but Noelle was a good sport.