Today's Post Brought to you by the Number "2"

Greetings from Alaska in the springtime!    We've had a few really sunny days with highs in the 50's.  You could never have convinced me that this would be cause for breaking out the flip-flops and walks without jackets.  However, here I am, wearing a t-shirt, no shoes OR socks and capri sweats (always with the sweats, I know).  It's a funny thing how your perspective of warm weather changes after one simple winter in AK.

OK, so onto our sponsor, the number 2..  Why "2", you ask?  Well, here goes:

**Number of wheels on Kara and Clay-Clay's bikes.. they've both lost their training wheels (Kara by choice, Clay by force) and are enjoying riding bikes all afternoon, evening and into the night. We really have to watch the clocks because the sun is up until almost midnight and it's easy to lose track of time.

**Number of weeks Kara has left of kindergarten.  This one really blows me away!  She'll be a first grader!  Where did this year go??   I don't think she fully understands about summer vacation.  Despite her struggles with math and mean girls, she loves school and will miss it.

**Number of weeks before the four of us head to Hawaii for a little bit.  Clayton was offered a stint doing some kind of liaison position at Hickam Field for about 2.5 weeks.  We tossed around the idea of the kids and I going with, and Clayton bought tickets for us!!  Kara is missing the last week of school and we'll be in HI for her birthday, however, after being promised a "fancy" dinner of pink steak and sushi for her big day, she got over missing kindergarten graduation.  Clayton leaves on Mother's Day and I'll leave 5/14 until the 24th.. Clayton will come home the 28th (or so they say).

**Number of days before Aunt Jennie, Uncle Jake and Baby Hugh arrive for their Alaska vacay. Jenn has had these tickets forever so this trip has been a long time in the making. We're hoping this beautiful weather sticks around so we can be outside and doing fun stuff a lot of the time. Suffice it to say we're all really excited.

**Number of months until Clayton goes to Guam for 6-7 weeks.  Planned TDYs are the kind I can deal with.  And since this one is really more like a vacation (for him) than going to Iraq and being shot at night and day, I think it's not going to be so bad at all for any of us.

Our thanks to the number "2" for sponsoring today's blog update.  We'll see you all next time for a report on "Johnson-Saylor Alaska Adventures".  Thank you for tuning in, see you real soon.

This is our little girl riding her bike down a dirt hill.. she really has inherited Clayton's need for speed.. she also rides her bike on the little ramps a boy down the street has.  Clay.. not interested.