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MilSpouse Weekly Roundup

Posted on September 9, 2011
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It’s Friday – finally! And the best thing ever is that I was asked by Mrs K at Mrs. K and Captain J to host this week’s Milspouse Weekly Roundup. So welcome to visit Adventures of The K Family!

MilSpouse Weekly Roundup is a weekly get-together for MilSpouses, hosted by wonderful ladies stationed around the world. The current week’s host chooses next week’s host, and this way we keep the Roundup going. And if you for some reason miss a roundup posting, you can always check Weekly Roundup update by Wife on the Roller Coaster. And most importantly, MilSpouse Weekly Roundup is a great way to catch up with other spouses, so please link up your favorite blog entry from this week!

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I had tons of plans for this special posting of mine, and what happened….?! I got completely swamped by travels this week. Jason and I flew to sunny California for Labor Day weekend. We had such a great time — enjoyed the sunshine and warm weather in San Diego. We got back late on Monday night, and on Tuesday morning at 0800 I was back at the airport – this time heading to Ketchikan and Sitka in southeast Alaska. I got back from my business meetings late on Wednesday night, had a more or less regular working day on Thursday, and in the evening I hit the road again… This time road tripping for almost 250 miles to tiny town of Healy, just outside of Denali National Park – for another work meeting as a first thing on Friday morning. And somehow in the middle of all this I even had time to get my university classes’ homework done – before the deadlines.

Seaworld - San Diego

Sitka, AK

Southeast Alaska

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But I am sure at least some of you are visiting Adventures of The K Family first time ever, so brief introduction is in order, don’t you think?! My name is Nina, and I am happily married (since July 9, 2011) to Jason who is an Army Officer. We are stationed in Alaska, just outside of Anchorage, and have been here for a couple of years. He is my best friend and hero who always manages to make my day, no matter what is going on.

Mr & Mrs K

We both love traveling, wines, delicious food, are nerds, and spoil our little beagle, Tassu, way too much. We also enjoy all kinds of outdoors activities from skiing and hiking to biking although I am the health and fitness nut of the household, with a goal to qualify for Ironman race in Kona, HI, one day. In addition to all running, biking and swimming, I am also completely hooked to CrossFit as well as do some personal training and teach cycling classes.

I work full-time in the technical field, doing engineering in one of the world’s biggest corporations as well as I am working on my Psychology degree with an ultimate goal of getting PhD eventually. My professional interests are related to the trauma and military psychology, and would love to combine my technical background with psychology in the future. Ideally I’d be working with the PTSD population and developing new techology-assisted therapies such as Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy.

Lastly, I have been doing photography professionally for several years. Nowadays I mainly work through my photo agencies or do corporate/editorial assignments for the clients. For the pics, check out the Facebook, or KominiakPhoto‘s official site.

But now it is time to hear about you, so go ahead and link up your favorite blog posting from this week — I can’t wait to read about your adventures.

And also, check out the next week’s host Jane at A Few of My Favorite Things. She is an awesome Army wife blogging from sunny Hawaii.


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MilSpouse Friday Fill-In #56

Posted on September 2, 2011
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September. Already. It has been such a busy week, and I am almost dreading next week when I am practically flying from one place to another. We are heading to sunny California for the Labor Day weekend, then return home just to grab another suitcase and sleep for a few hours before being on the plane again.

The university started this week too. So far so good – I am greatly enjoying my research and lab classes. The only hiccup is a textbook on one of the online classes. The eBook should be available online but accessing it has turned out to be a serious headache. Hopefully teaching assistant and professor figure out what to do sometime in near future…

But now it is time for every Friday tradition — MilSpouse Friday Fill-In by Wife of A Sailor!

1. My plans for this weekend include traveling to San Diego, but what I’d really like to do is nothing else – this was our Labor Day weekend plan!

2. I consider the Labor Day holiday as start of fall. It actually has felt like fall in Alaska already for a little while.

3. My favorite meal for cookouts is anything healthy, but my friends or husband wouldn’t agree.

4. So far, my favorite part of summer has been our wedding! It has been a great summer overall though!

5. When it comes to deployments, my philosophy is to them one at a time, day by day.

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July 9, 2011 – In Pictures

Posted on August 13, 2011
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I have been such a slacker what comes to putting together our wedding recap. Of course it doesn’t help that we have been busy ever since saying the I Do’s. Past four, five weeks  it has been simply running from one place to another. However, we just very recently got the first versions of our wedding pictures, and sharing a few pictures would be also a great opportunity for me to tell about our wedding day.

July 9, 2011 was absolutely the best, most awesome day in our life. On this beautiful, sunny Saturday afternoon we promised to love each forever and a day, before our friends and relatives, God and The Army Chaplain who married us. I truly cherish every single moment of that day, just like I cherish every single moment in our life. Every day I am more and more grateful for having Jason in my life.

The Dress

The Groom

The Bride

The Bride - Again ...

Waiting for The Bride.

And Here Comes The Bride!

In The Chapel

Rings

Unity Candle

The First Kiss as Mr & Mrs!

Saber Arch

The Husband!

And Mr & Mrs Again

Love

Always And Forever

Jason Toasting (To Me)

Cake! (And it was delicious!!)

Mr & Mrs K

 All pictures in this blog posting are copyrighted by ©Michael Wachel Photography. 2011. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wedding

Posted on July 24, 2011
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No, it is not a wedding recap post yet. Sorry. But since so many of you have been asking for the pics, I wanted to post a couple as a teaser…. more to follow!

Mr & Mrs K!

Getting Hair Done

Happily Married

 

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Another Weekend Flies By

Posted on July 24, 2011
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Sometimes I wish there was a way to stop the time. Or at least stretch the weekends. And since I am making wishes here, I’d also love to see more sunshine. Saturday was a rather nice day here in Alaska but the rain came again today. Yesterday we were running a bunch of errands, did some shopping and just enjoyed the time off.

Jason had his 12-mile ruck march on Thursday. The fun started at 0430, which meant a wake up at 0330. Although I was thinking of “sleeping in”, I ended up to getting up at the same time with him, packed his lunch, cuddled with the dog for a bit and before 0500 I was out running. It was a great 8-mile run although for some reason I started to feel a bit down afterwards. The day is getting shorter again: instead of 0300, the sunrise is now at around 5am. I can sense it – the fall is coming and I am not ready for rain, falling leaves and eventually snow. Not yet.

Today we went to Anchorage Museum to do some location scouting for one of my photo projects. I will be shooting engagement pictures for a very special couple, and wanted to check out some locations and ideas that I have been talking about with the bride. Jason was patiently acting as my model for various different ideas, as well as we greatly enjoyed the museum’s collections. After the museum and lunch the rain started. So what would be a better activity for a rainy day than movies? We finally saw Transformers, and really liked it. This last one, Dark of The Moon, was definitely a lot better than the second movie, Revenge of the Fallen.

Since it has been such a slacker weekend, I also skipped all the workouts for a couple of days. I did well on Friday but then decided to take the weekend off. But back to the grind tomorrow, and my twice a day routine. Ironman 2012, here I come!

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P.S. Have you checked KominiakPhoto on the Facebook? If not, check out our photo site and click “Like” for staying updated about the Photo adventures. Some of the location scouting pictures below ….

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