Easter with our ACF Family

This Easter we were able to enjoy the resurrection of Jesus with our ACF family!
We started off the morning with our wonderful Life Group and best friends. "The Walking Dead" service was amazing, and we got to see many friends get baptized, including our friends Liana and John!

Photo by Ross Montgomery, ACF Church

After service, we all headed over to the Neelys to eat, hunt eggs, and hang out.
Lunch was amazing as usual (smoked turkey!), followed by an OUTDOOR Easter egg hunt. This is unheard of in Alaska. It was sunny, "warm", and most of the snow had melted!

Finally, we headed inside (the mosquitos were eating us alive) to hang out, snack, and watch Frozen.

It was a wonderful, laid back day with our best friends.

He is risen - He is risen indeed!

"Spring" in Talkeetna

This past Friday was our day off for spring break. Of course, "spring" is relative in Alaska. It was a gorgeous sunny and "warm" day (highs in the 40s!), so we took off north to Talkeetna with a group of friends.

We walked around the main drag in Talkeetna. Many businesses were closed, but we still had fun playing in the snow and large puddles.

Lunch was nice and filling at the Denali Brewing Company, followed by playing out on the river for awhile. Talkeetna is where three rivers meet; the Talkeetna, Chulitna, and Susitna; creating the Big Susitna drainage. It was a bit windy out on the ice, but it was gorgeous, so we had snowball fights and built a snowman.

Some open water on another part of the confluence

After some time on the ice, it started to cloud over, so we headed back home, just in time for a nice spring snowfall. Some areas of Anchorage got 24 inches! Thankfully, in Chugiak, we only had 4 inches.

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