so cold

jewel celebrated her 7th birthday this week. she had a "friend" party at rafferty's last saturday. it was me and 8 children, which was quite and experience. sunday mom and dad had us over along with ryan for dinner. tuesday was her actual birthday and we went to coco moon for a treat, then out to dinner. jewel chose to go to china buffet. apparently she is her daddy's daughter. i will add some photos from her birthday later.

this week it has been so very very cold. we have had 2 late starts and one cancellation due to the weather. my thermostat is not working so it has been around 58 - 60 degrees in the house. joe's brother, brandon is coming out today to take a look at it. if he can't figure it out eric said he would walk me through replacing the thermostat (he told me i could do it). for all of us that think ak is so cold, here are the current temps: tempe 50, anchorage 38, brainerd -31. thats fun.

next week joe and i are going to the capitol to spend a day with dad. i'm excited for that. i'm hoping to talk joe into going down the night before so we can get sushi. yum. i don't have the girls this weekend, so i'm wanting to get out in the spear house tomorrow, then tomorrow night i'm going to dinner with some high school friends.

have a nice weekend!