Best of life in 2018
app for taking notes Notability
app for communication Marcopolo
book for change in me "12 ways your phone is changing you"
best bike ride Denali Highway
best date with James so many, but I love when he reads to me plus puzzles
best day hike Maui, Hileaka hike with Rowland’s
best tandem bike ride Soldotna to Homer
best new food roasted golden beets
best marriage podcast Fierce marriage
best cozy coffee shop Starbucks 100th Ave near target
best city getaway Russian Jack Greenhouse
best thrift store The Archangel Thrift Store
best Asian grocery The Lucky Grocery
best Thai food Thai Orchid
best new game Small World
best Apple Watch app Strava
best spiritual growth app Scripture typer
best convicting sermon Sermon on the Mount: Fasting : growing our Hunger for God.
best new ministry "If Table" mentoring
best family time watching "Our Town" live play at the PAC
-best sporting addional equipment Studded bike tires
best accessory heated gloves.
-hardest day saying goodby to Hannah for college.
best waterfall Virgin Falls Girdwood
-best short hike Peak three
-best grocery and recipe app Anylist
best homeless shelter Downtown Hope Center
best reflecting tool Watercolor Pen and sketchbook.
most helpful accountability group is Moms in Prayer
-best fiction book Name of the Wind
-best grocery online Walmart.
Best ladies getaway Byers Lake January
Best cabin night Hope Alaska
What are some of your best???
Monday, December 31, 2018
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Merry Christmas 2018 from the Embrees
Merry Christmas 2018
Our Family gathered at Anchorage, Alaska
Those present were Max, Hannah, Bronwyn, Ella And James
New members of the family since last Christmas Morfisha the beta fish.
Special traditions we enjoy Each year unwrap the Bible first and James reads the story, photo of the stockings, Christmas Eve service at Clear Water church, Bought gifts for Wendell needy family.
New traditions we started find a place to serve on Christmas. This time we went to the Hospital to visit Kiersten Dahms with heart issues. In the past we have rung Christmas bells for Salvation Army. I got to hand out homeless socks at the corner near REI. Clear Water sponsored a Christmas tree at the solstice tree at Kincaid ski. It was amazing with Mr. Christmas and carols dressed in Dickens costumes, and free hot cider. We also wen away to a cabin in the woods in Hope, Alaska. Yeah!
Special activities of Christmas Eve major was the Clear Water church Christmas Eve. Hannah sang a duet and Bronwyn, Hannah. And Jessica did a skit called “what kind of giver are you?”, also special having Christmas Eve dinner with Nonna and Uppa. I made dog treats to the neighbors to invite them to The service. Fun photo booth.
Special activities of Christmas Day we went to see Aquaman at the Dimond mall. Then toured the gingerbread houses at Captain Cook hotel, and finally went looking at Christmas lights in the neighborhood.
Our Christmas Day menu eggs, leftovers, sausage, and popcorn LOTS.
Special gifts both given and receiving tent, sleeping bag, Hannah got iPhone, echo, Max got noise cancelling ear, and Bronwyn her diffuser, makeup. And yes, I cried when I opened the Vitamix.
New ornaments and decorations for the tree and house James spent money to get all led lights and they went out. Bummer. I was proactive and got all the Christmas photos I could fine on the various hard drives, then I printed them out and made them a tree and another wall hanging. I also was thrifty finding out little and big Christmas frames, and so now we have plenty. We did buy a new wreath which double for the Vintage Holiday market and our door.
Special guests during the holidays we had a rarity of couples over, Dahms, Hruby’s, amy and mike Martin, and book club,
Favorite plays, movies, concerts of the season we only saw the show Our Town, the Best Christmas pageant ever, Elf, the grinch that stole Christmas, not a fan of Jingle all the way, Christmas with the Cranks. James read to us a Christmas mystery.
Special spiritual emphasis this Christmas we looked at the various Old Testament guys and we heard from, Adam, Moses, Abraham, and king David. The memory verse is Luke 2:10-11
Quirky things: we played which one is the PJ again? Which resulted in only one wrong guess. Maybe we’ll learn. We played a round of Nufarious and Ella (me) won for being the mad scientist.
Our Family gathered at Anchorage, Alaska
Those present were Max, Hannah, Bronwyn, Ella And James
New members of the family since last Christmas Morfisha the beta fish.
Special traditions we enjoy Each year unwrap the Bible first and James reads the story, photo of the stockings, Christmas Eve service at Clear Water church, Bought gifts for Wendell needy family.
New traditions we started find a place to serve on Christmas. This time we went to the Hospital to visit Kiersten Dahms with heart issues. In the past we have rung Christmas bells for Salvation Army. I got to hand out homeless socks at the corner near REI. Clear Water sponsored a Christmas tree at the solstice tree at Kincaid ski. It was amazing with Mr. Christmas and carols dressed in Dickens costumes, and free hot cider. We also wen away to a cabin in the woods in Hope, Alaska. Yeah!
Special activities of Christmas Eve major was the Clear Water church Christmas Eve. Hannah sang a duet and Bronwyn, Hannah. And Jessica did a skit called “what kind of giver are you?”, also special having Christmas Eve dinner with Nonna and Uppa. I made dog treats to the neighbors to invite them to The service. Fun photo booth.
Special activities of Christmas Day we went to see Aquaman at the Dimond mall. Then toured the gingerbread houses at Captain Cook hotel, and finally went looking at Christmas lights in the neighborhood.
Our Christmas Day menu eggs, leftovers, sausage, and popcorn LOTS.
Special gifts both given and receiving tent, sleeping bag, Hannah got iPhone, echo, Max got noise cancelling ear, and Bronwyn her diffuser, makeup. And yes, I cried when I opened the Vitamix.
New ornaments and decorations for the tree and house James spent money to get all led lights and they went out. Bummer. I was proactive and got all the Christmas photos I could fine on the various hard drives, then I printed them out and made them a tree and another wall hanging. I also was thrifty finding out little and big Christmas frames, and so now we have plenty. We did buy a new wreath which double for the Vintage Holiday market and our door.
Special guests during the holidays we had a rarity of couples over, Dahms, Hruby’s, amy and mike Martin, and book club,
Favorite plays, movies, concerts of the season we only saw the show Our Town, the Best Christmas pageant ever, Elf, the grinch that stole Christmas, not a fan of Jingle all the way, Christmas with the Cranks. James read to us a Christmas mystery.
Special spiritual emphasis this Christmas we looked at the various Old Testament guys and we heard from, Adam, Moses, Abraham, and king David. The memory verse is Luke 2:10-11
Quirky things: we played which one is the PJ again? Which resulted in only one wrong guess. Maybe we’ll learn. We played a round of Nufarious and Ella (me) won for being the mad scientist.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Tough Alaskan Women Interviews
Here is a compilation of interviews of outstanding women in Alaska. If you click on the name it will link to the live interview with them.
Eowyn Ivey Alaska author and best seller of two novels. She gives some of her motivations for writing and a hint of her next book that she is in the process of writing.
Ella Embree (Me lol). Introducing the 1,000 mile bike around Alaska challenge from Sea to Shining Sea.
Meredith Mapes youngest female *24 years old from Palmer, Alaska, and a rookie Iditarod musher before her big race explaining about her goals for the Last Great Race.
Charity Carmody founder of Beacon Hill which exists to serve Alaska’s children in foster care and children at risk of going into foster care through the love of Christ.
DeeDee Jonroe sweet and tough cancer survivor and an Alaskan woman who has raced the Iditarod since 1980, shares her heart for dogs and passion for caring for others in crisis.
Janice from Palmer, Alaska is 93 and shares a little about homesteading in Alaska. She was a nurse, worked at a cannery, and was a set-netter for 20 years. Her husband served in WW2, and she came from Montana.
Elishaba Doerksen Interview with tough Alaska Chick eldest daughter of Papa Pilgrim, who escaped an abusive lifestyle in remote Alaska.
Sierra Dorman Another tough Alaska Chicks, where she talks about how she went from "command and control" over our country's nuclear weapons to mom life!
Christy Marvin local Alaska Chick mountain runner and mama! She won Mt. Marathon this past summer and many other races!
Pattsy Mendez Peshel Tough Alaska Chick who fought the race of cancer. She has now since passed. But, her story will inspire anyone.
Eowyn Ivey Alaska author and best seller of two novels. She gives some of her motivations for writing and a hint of her next book that she is in the process of writing.
Ella Embree (Me lol). Introducing the 1,000 mile bike around Alaska challenge from Sea to Shining Sea.
Meredith Mapes youngest female *24 years old from Palmer, Alaska, and a rookie Iditarod musher before her big race explaining about her goals for the Last Great Race.
Charity Carmody founder of Beacon Hill which exists to serve Alaska’s children in foster care and children at risk of going into foster care through the love of Christ.
DeeDee Jonroe sweet and tough cancer survivor and an Alaskan woman who has raced the Iditarod since 1980, shares her heart for dogs and passion for caring for others in crisis.
Janice from Palmer, Alaska is 93 and shares a little about homesteading in Alaska. She was a nurse, worked at a cannery, and was a set-netter for 20 years. Her husband served in WW2, and she came from Montana.
Elishaba Doerksen Interview with tough Alaska Chick eldest daughter of Papa Pilgrim, who escaped an abusive lifestyle in remote Alaska.
Sierra Dorman Another tough Alaska Chicks, where she talks about how she went from "command and control" over our country's nuclear weapons to mom life!
Christy Marvin local Alaska Chick mountain runner and mama! She won Mt. Marathon this past summer and many other races!
Pattsy Mendez Peshel Tough Alaska Chick who fought the race of cancer. She has now since passed. But, her story will inspire anyone.
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