We almost missed this little guy!

The moose and her calf had to follow the fence before they could hide in the woods from us.

I just thought everyone would enjoy this lovely picture of Donald :)

The Last Frontier

Hello North Family!

This is my first post to your awesome blog, get ready, because it's going to be a long one! Well, I'm in ALASKA. My dad started driving my jetta up with everything I could pack into it on June 14th. He picked up his brother from his flight in Seattle and they continued to make the long journey together. Meanwhile, I was spending time with my mom, grandparents, and puppies. And of course Donald and everyone at Depoe Bay :) The first part of the trip was fun, they did a lot of site-seeing, but the second half was just road and trees until Anchorage. They saw bison, goats, buffalo, moose, and every kind of bear! Including a grizzly enjoying the intestines of a dead bison, yuck. And they took the risk of stopping a taking a picture of a nearby grizzly and her cub, yikes! They arrived in Anchorage on June 19th and started searching for apartments for me. Let me tell ya, it was SCARY!! Everything is ridiculously expensive here and nobody seems to want to take care of their apartments, hmmmm. We were in a pickle. Not only that, but we had banked on a furnished place and couldn't seem to find any. Which was probably a good thing because I can only imagine how disgusting the furniture would be. We were about to put down a deposit for a shabby place close to the hospital, when we tried a phone call to one more place. It turned out that this was one of the places Sarah from DMS was looking into as well. I went and checked it out and it is AMAZING!! Beautiful leather furniture, a new kitchen, flat screen tv, cable, wireless internet, all utilities included, and a maid comes in every 2 weeks to clean! So, I'll be living with Sarah in this two bedroom castle and I'm very happy :) We meet with the lady today to finalize it! Since then, we've been exploring The Last Frontier, and it's been fun. Yesterday I saw a Moose and her Calf for the first time! It was really cool. Anchorage is WAY bigger than Klamath Falls and has tons to offer. The city itself is the size of the state of Delaware! Anyway, I move in to my new apartment on Thursday night and I start work at the gorgeous Providence Medical Center on July 6th. Wish me luck!

-Kayleigh the Alaskan

Red Rock Tour

My Dad and brother Jencen are on their bike ride from SLC to the Grand Canyon to Moab. They are 6 days, and 300 miles into their 1200 mile ride. I thought I could lend them a little more support with the other half of my family! You can follow them on their blog at www.bikingfamily.com
Thanks!

Great Day

Thanks to all of you, I had a really fun birthday! I hope Breein's day was as good as mine.

To Mom & Breein

Hope you both have a super great day!!

Social Life

So Tom and I pretty much haven't had friends since we got married. I fell off the face of the earth and was convinced that everyone had forgotten who I was, until we received an invitation to go "camping" over Memorial Day with some of my friends from college. Camping turned into staying at my friend's grandmother's condo in Mesquite, NV. From there, we were able to travel into Zion National Park on the busiest day of the year and hike Emerald Pools and Angel's Landing! My ego took a hit that day as I panted in the back of the pack for most of the day. Tom was kind enough to stick behind with me. In fact, he even made me slow down and take breaks even though I looked at him, red-faced, and told him I was fine. I guess he is worried about the baby or something. As we hiked out onto the ridge at Angel's Landine (1000 foot drops on both sides!) Tom made sure to stay behind me to watch me hike and make sure I didn't fall. It was on this hike that we were able to capture a picture of the "belly"- something that has remained relatively hidden to the human eye up until this point. Yes, I am now showing! (Sort of). The rest of our trip was spent playing some sand volleyball at the Casa Blanca resort (yes, we snuck in), and hanging out at the house with the 4 other couples playing monopoly the card game (which is pretty fun- and addicting)! It was hard to leave and come back to the reality of work and school, but I believe Tom has found some new motivation in school after getting a 94% on his bio test!!! Woot, woot! And he continues to do well, though he has mentioned that he is looking forward to his short summer break at the end of this month. Speaking of the end of this month, on the 29th we will go in and find out if we need to paint Phyllis's room blue or pink, in preparation for the new little North one.
That's all for now! Laurie, if you wanted to add me as an author on this thing that would be great. If not, it's cool I can continue to pose as Tom.
'Til next time, Love you all!!