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Ketchikan, Alaska

June 17, 2013

Our first stop on our cruise was Ketchikan, Alaska, the first city of Alaska. This is probably where your salmon comes from, being “The Salmon Capital of the World”. We were not there at the right season for the salmon runs though, but we did come on a day without rain which was fabulous. Josh and I booked a shore excursion to fly over the Misty Fjords. Our plane was full, and the pilot asked Josh if he wanted to sit up front. Of course, Josh was thrilled. He wants to learn to fly, a...

Leaving for Alaska!

June 6, 2013

I’ve heard about how great the Alaska cruises are, and this summer Josh and I got to experience the wonders of Alaska for ourselves. We picked Celebrity Cruises because a friend of ours told us that they were the best. Our verdict: it was a wonderful cruise. We had a great experience on the ship and I feel like our Captain did a great job balancing safety with the opportunities to see the glaciers and icebergs floating by. But I’m getting ahead of myself. First off, we boarded in Sea...

Seattle 2013

June 1, 2013

Josh and I traveled to Seattle for a few days before boarding our Celebrity Cruise to Alaska. We stayed at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle. We really love the Fairmont brand, the hotels are always classy and the beds are soft. We’ve discovered that we only really enjoy our vacations if we get a good night’s sleep every night, and we love soft beds. We walked down to the Pike Place Market, of course, as you have to do when you are visiting Seattle. We saw the first Sta...

Gardening

May 18, 2013

I’ve taken up gardening. I seem to have tried my hand at a lot of hobbies, and I usually get very gung-ho about them for a little while and then they fade away again and I move on to something else. Last year I decided to fix up the garden in the front of our house. It looked very nice when we first moved in, but after neglecting it the following year, it was an ugly mess. So, last year I worked on half of the yard, pulling out the boxwoods and some of the other plants, leaving a few of th...

The decision is made

April 3, 2013

As you have been following, Josh and I had a decision to make about what we were going to do about our adoption. After Russia shut down all adoptions before we received our referral, we had to regroup and see where God was leading us from here. We decided to try to have our own biological child. Surprise, surprise, as soon as we started trying I was pregnant! We were surprised that it happened so quickly – but very excited. We told our families and they were very excited. We hadn’t b...

Hawaii in January

April 3, 2013

Between the end of college football season and the start of college basketball season, Josh and I were able to get away for a week to our favorite place: Hawaii. We went to The Big Island first for a few days, then to Maui for a few days. Using a lot of deals stacked together, we stayed at The Fairmont Orchid and The Fairmont Kea Lani. I love both of these hotels so much. We flew into Maui and took a commuter plane to The Big Island. It was so cool because the plane flies low and you can see the...

New Year 2013

April 2, 2013

I had my mom, Dulcinea, Ariel, and Ben over for a fondue feast in honor of the new year. It was delicious, if I do say so myself. I know I left the last post on a really down note. This time was really rough on me. I had quit my job to be a mother, and now I had no job to go back to, my husband works a lot this time of year, and I was not going to be a mother any time soon. We had a few options… our adoption agency would allow us to transfer all of the money we had paid so far to another...

A Christmas Surprise

March 31, 2013

Josh and I went to Florida for Christmas with his family. We always go to Nana and Papa Joe’s house for Christmas Eve, we exchange presents with them and we eat fondue. It’s always a very fun time, and Nana will even make us a treasure hunt for our big gifts which I love. When I was younger, I used to always ask my dad to make a treasure hunt for me for my birthday parties. They would be so much fun, and I love figuring out all the clues. Christmas Day we spent at the Glaze house. Pa...

Catching Up

March 31, 2013

There has been a long lull between my posts, and I apologize for the delay. The truth is, there have been some big, big changes in our lives in the past three months. I will attempt to post the changes, and catch you, my readers, up on the Glaze family. The first big change was the marriage of my sister Ariel, who had been living upstairs in our home for the last 3 years. Her wedding was in December, and she was a beautiful bride. Enjoy a few photos of Ariel and Ben’s special day. Another ...

Visiting Hobbiton

December 16, 2012

Over a year ago Josh and I visited New Zealand, including Hobbiton. It was an amazing set, they had rebuilt the entire village for The Hobbit movies, and each Hobbit hole was so detailed and beautiful. We had to sign a disclosure to not post the photos until The Hobbit was released in theaters, and so finally, here are our photos! We loved our visit, even during the torrential downpour in the middle of our visit. There was a beautiful rainbow over Hobbiton to make up for the rain though. ...