What a stud! Picture perfect. We got pictures taken at Wal-mart on Christmas Eve and Gavin was perfect as you can see. Merry Christmas everyone and wish you could visit us in North Pole Alaska.  

Here's one of our family photos from Christmas. We ended up getting another one taken, but we won't get the prints until Jan. 15. Then we'll send them off to everyone.  

Always a happy baby 

My first Christmas. 

This is one of the best pictures I've ever taken. I wonder why... Hope you like all our pictures. Love you guys. Email us.  

Another picture outside of Santa's house. These were taken Dec. 16. 

Here's us at the Santa Clause House in the North Pole.  

Gavin is such a stud. Takes after his father... 

Thought this was a cool picture. Looks like he's flying to the moon. An F-16 pilot had just taken off and I quick snapped a picture while driving home. Good thing I keep my camera with me.  

Gavin is so close to walking. Here he is at daycare side-stepping towards the camera.  

Another AF ball photo. We have photos for both grandparents, we just need to mail them out 

Here's a nice sized Caribou we saw up North. You can't rifle hunt where we were here unless you walk five miles away from the highway. Only bow hunting from the road is allowed.  

Here's us camping up north back in early November. My buddy was bow hunting for caribou. I have to pass my bow hunter's certification course before I can bow hunt. It was -30 while we were there.  

Here's us in the beginning of October. That baby sure is cute 

Wow! what a handsome couple!  

I'm posting old pictures b/c I forgot to. This is from our Air Force Ball we had back in September celebrating the AF's birthday.  

Here's the impossibly small truck that made it through 100 miles of two foot covered highway to get to where I shot my caribou. We had a snowmobile, but ended up not needing it.  

Here's my first caribou, shot on the Taylor Highway five hours south of Fairbanks. It provided 80 pounds of hamburger in my freezer! Yeah! :)  

Email

For those of you who have been having issues emailing me, you can try kenyachui2@gci.net, or once again at justin.weaver@eielson.af.mil.

On a seperate note - I leave tomorrow, Thursday Nov. 3, to go Caribou hunting up north. Now I know some of you are saying, "Up north! How much further up north can he go!" I know, I know, craziness, but It's about 200 miles and it will take anywhere from 8-12 hours. It gets better though. I think it must be the Alaskan air that makes me even crazier, but you have to be five miles off the road before you can shoot a caribou. That means walking five miles in snow, in negative temperatures. The things we do for meat. It's -20 right now at our house and that's considered warm for this time of year. Like I said - craziness!

Anyway, wish me luck, but mostly just pray that I have a successful and safe trip. I'll be going up with two other guys and we'll be returning on Sunday.

Send me some emails.

~J

Third Day

Today I got to meet the band and crew members of the popular Christian band Third Day. They were very friendly and awesome to talk with. They are performing Thursday night at the Carlson Center and since they had some free time, we arranged to give them a tour of our base. We took them to see an F-16 and an A-10 and then we let them fly in our F-16 simulator. They also got to meet the base chapel worship team.
Anyway, I included several pictures, as well as a picture of me with the crew and band. There was 5 of the 6 band members there today. I also "snagged" a press pass, so tomorrow night I'll be going backstage to talk with them and see them perform up close and personal.
Email me sometime at justin.weaver@eielson.af.mil and let me know how you guys are doing.
Winter is here, and it's getting cold!

Jenny's Birthday! She is the BIG 23! We love her. Gavin has learned to stick out his tongue. What a cutie! Jen's not so bad herself!

Aug.29 -- Mama and little G outside of our house. It's getting cold already - winter is knocking on our door.  

Notice his cute little mohawk!  

Aug. 27 -- Gavin loves to get his picture taken.  

More fishing

Alaska is known for the outdoors, and it couldn't be more true when it comes to fishing. This past weekend I had the opportunity to go on a fishing trip to Minto Flats. They are only 40 miles away, but b/c of terrible roads it takes two hours by car and four hours on a boat to get there.
Three of us went on the trip and about two minutes after setting the boat in the water, I began to second guess what we were doing. First of all, the first mile was extremely shallow, second, we had three big guys with camping gear weighing down a 14 foot boat past it's max. Because the water was so shallow we kept hitting the bottom of the river. We were wearing waders, so we would get out and walk along side the boat until it got deeper and then we would jump back in and try and use the motor. Well we were going along and we started to go through rapids, but it was too shallow to use our motor so we had to attempt to row. We smacked into three boulders, and thought for sure we were going to sink. Thankfully we didn't, but the butterflies in my stomach sure were flying. After the mile from hell, the river became a lot deeper and after a 3 hour boat ride, we made it to camp. We set up camp in the middle of Minto flats right off of the river bank. Talk about awesome fishing. We fished for Northern Pike and they were all over the place. Our three day fishing trip was cut down to two b/c you are only allowed five fish a piece, and we reached our limit the first day we were there. The largest fish I caught was 35 inches long, but my buddy caught a 41 incher. Almost as big as my salmon. All in all, after we chopped up the fish, we came out with 30 pounds of meat for the winter ... next on my list -- MOOSE!

Airman of the Quarter

Aug. 7, 2005 -- Today I received my Airman of the Quarter for the group award from the vice wing commander Colonel Horton. The award highlights different accomplishments I've made over the last three months. I won it for our squadron, and then I won it for our "group," but unfortunately I didn't win it at wing level. Another Airman, who had been deployed twice already, won the award.