Hello Julia

... Remember me your blog? You haven't added to me in over a month! I think your MILLIONS of faithful readers are sad, and you should get on it and share your life with them.  

Yes, blog, I am sorry, you are probably right. 

To our readers...

     Joel and I have been on vacation to Michigan and back, and we have great intentions of sharing our trip and beyond with you in the days to come. For just a preview, while in Michigan Joel and I enjoyed creating and eating at least 6 cherry pies, many swims in the lake, some family time, road biking, playing with "the little boys" (my awesome, goofy nephews), played Ichy-Mini-Hoy (best game ever), ate big burritos at Bubba's, YUM, went to a wedding, celebrated my dad's 40th birthday :)(maybe), went to the Traverse City Nature Reserve aka Lews nature center (both of which are not the correct names), played scrabble, watched a lighting and thunderstorm over the lake, played donimoes (its dominoes, but we don't call it that), met my beautiful niece, Listened to my parents answering machine for humor, watched cherry harvest in progress, rode in the cherry truck, acted as Dad's "huckleberry", I snuggled with my sisters, drank some TC wine, saw Ingrid, ohh yeah... trained for skiing, and much much more. 

Since being back in Fairbanks, Joel has begun teaching again. It's going well. I have connected with the ski team again for my final season as a Nanook. Joel and I did a 27 mile hike/run with the ski team, I hope to provide pictures of that here soon. 

So, as you can tell, we have a lot to write about! 

Cheers for now, but more to come soon. I promise. 

p.s. did I mention I made cheese today from scratch?