Let it snow, let it snow:)

Just sitting here in our living room, looking out the window, enjoying the colors of the leaves, to the sound of Trav watching some saturday football in the background. Gotta love fall:) OR, should I say winter?! Seriously, who knows what season it is right now here. It snowed just a few days ago! Check out these pics:)

I mean it's not like a foot of snow or anything, but snow in September?! Pretty crazy. Trav's parents were up here with us this past week, and they were able to experience the pretty little white snow flurries also. It hasn't snowed since, but it probably won't be long. Up where Trav works on the slope there is already at least a foot of packed down snow that's not gonna melt or leave anytime soon.

One of Trav and I's favorite things to do is take walks (nice SLOW walks, haha) on the trail and around the lake behind our house. We have talked alot about it but I realized we have never really posted pics of it. So this is what it looked like a few weeks ago when the leaves were just barely starting to change.

It starts off with this bridge just right behind our complex

 Here is the little creek that flows just under the bridge

After the bridge it opens up to this beautiful view of the lake and trees. There is a trail that circles all around the lake that we like to walk on.

And some little ducks:)

Also realized that we have never really posted any pics of what the outside of our apt looks like, so here you go. I took these pics on a gorgeous Thursday afternoon, just before picking Trav up from the airport, my most favorite days:)

This is the front of our complex. Our apt is the very bottom left corner one.

Our little deck

Just outside our deck looking down the street that leads to the main road

These are what the apt buildings look like that fill most of our neighborhood

Well, I think that is all the pics for this week. Things are going well and we are happy. 

As I said, Trav's parents were up here this past week and that was a lot of fun. We enjoy having visitors, even though we may not be the most exciting people, haha. I'll tell ya I'm starting to get pretty lazy with this pregnancy and all, ha. 

Trav is enjoying his job. He got to go to LA just a week or so ago, and he is very happy that Anchorage is not that busy. It has a smaller town feel and we love that. Things are starting to get busier as the birth of baby comes closer and closer. Trav leaves tomorrow to spend about a week and a half in Houston, and then after that the weeks are just gonna fly by I am sure. I am over 34 weeks now, and it's crazy to think that I only have about 5-6 more weeks to go before pushing this baby out. haha, crazy stuff. Baby is doing well though. Doc said that he has a big head and big belly and just overall looks like he is gonna be a big baby. Watch out! haha. We are very excited:) Fun times and great memories ahead:)

We love you all!

The Jones

Here comes Fall

Hello all! Thought it about time to make another small blog update to let you know what's goin' on up here in the last frontier:)

As I now type, Travis is in the kitchen making omelets for us for breakfast, yum! My husband is awesome:)

So I think it is pretty safe to say that we here in Alaska have seen the last of our summer:(  BUT....that also means the beginning of fall! My favorite. With the colder weather I couldn't but help myself, last week I had to go out and buy a yummy fall smelling candle and got a few fall decorations for our guest bathroom. Fun!

So Travis was up on the slope again this past week, and it's already been in the low 30's up there lately. And, it snowed on August 29th there!! Pretty crazy. They got about 1 inch.

A week or so ago, I cooked fish for like my first time ever! We used Aunt Jenelle's recipe for tilapia. It was very good and we served it with a little tomato, cucumber, and red onion salad.

 While Travis was up on the slope I went to the Alaska State Fair with a friend and her two boys in the ward. There were a lot of animals there, and I had to post a pic of the reindeer cause I have never seen one in person before. (FYI: Did you know that a reindeer and a caribou are the exact same animal? They just call it a caribou when in the wild, and reindeer once it has been domesticated. Someone just told me that this week)

Here is a picture of baby bump from last week, at 30 weeks.

And here is baby bump at 31 weeks. And in the words of Travis, "Kash, You're huge!!" hahaha. So funny, I just laughed:) 

Baby J seems to be getting lots bigger. His kicks and pokes are much stronger, and he seems to have the hiccups all the time, haha. We finished up our birthing class. It was really good and very informative. And Monday we have our 32 week ultrasound...so excited!!

Well that's all for now folks, until next time:)

With love,

The Jones