Hello everyone! Welcome to our first Blog! As everyone knows we moved to Fairbanks, AK last month. Jake has finished his first month at Fort Wainwright and loves it. I have been busy unpacking and decorating our new home! Penny seems to enjoy alaska. She made a new buddy... He is the Black lab next door and his name is Jake! Small world! The weather has been pretty good since we got here. It's hard to believe that locals are already getting ready for the next winter. The one big thing we have had to get used to is how light out it stays at night. Last night it never got dark. We are going to buy room darkening shades this weekend because it is hard to sleep when at 1am and it is still light out! Another things that is way different then home is the size of the Mosquittos. Right now they are all the females and they are the size of nickles. We go outside and are attacked by mosquittos! It's funny because locals call the mosquitto the state bird of alaska! Two days ago we saw moose right by our house! It was really neat to see her standing right by the side of the road. One local told me that Moose, Black Bears and Wolves live all around us. So maybe one day we will have black bears in our back yard! We can't leave penny outside alone because she is so small! But she loves to run in our fenced front yard. She chases the bugs and barks for no reason! Yesterday we had our cable TV and internet installed! It was very exciting for jake to watch the Mariner game! Well Im going get going now. We will update our blog as often as possible! But check out some of our photos from the drive up here!
All our love
Jake, Jen and Penny