Sorry I haven't blogged in a while!

Hello blogging world it has been a hot minute since I have posted anything! However I'll be here more! Lots of things have been going on since the last time I posted about a year ago! I am now a mom to the cutest little boy but I might bias. I am almost done with my Vet Assistent school. I am working on my externship!! We adopted another dog named Bailey and she is a goof ball! I am still living in Alaska! I am Maskcara Beauty Artist so that has been really fun! I will be posting about each new thing in my life over the next few week! I am going to be doing some traveling the next few months! I am going to fly back to South Dakota and show off my new little guy to the family which will be great fun!! I hope you are all doing well! If you are interested to see what I have been up too  you can fallow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hendricksmcgee13/  or if you want to join my Beauty group for Maskcara and learn more about that : https://www.facebook.com/groups/brighteyedbeautywitherinhendricks/

The First Night in the new house

Hello World,

So we finally have moved! Well at least our big furniture items, thanks to the help of awesome friends with trucks! I am slightly over whelmed with the amount of space I now have. My new house is 3X the size of my cute little cabin in the woods. I am gonna miss the cabin but I am glad we finally are living closer to Austin's work and my friends. Koda is loving running around the whole house and exploring. We even live right down the street from the dog park. It is going to save us a bunch on gas and if I need rides to things it is much easier for people to pick me up. We have a washer and dryer and a dish washer. I don't think I have ever said I am so excited to wash cloths. When you don't have such a simple thing that makes your life easier you realize  how lucky you are to have one. SO now I am washing loads and loads of laundry with a smile on my face. Things are starting look better. I still won't have a car for a while but hopefully soon I will. The weather is getting pretty nice so I am hoping to take Koda out for walks and not worry about getting lost in the woods. 

Just a girl living in the last frontier.

Well hello!
Sorry I haven't blogged much recently but not many  things have been going on. I have some serious  cabin fever now that Austin is gone for a while. Living in the woods is fun and all, but when you don't have a car you can't drive do to extreme anxiety to take you places things get tricky.  I have been crafting, writing letters, playing lots of video games,and watching movies. Koda has been helpful of course keeping me company. Plus wonderful friends who come get me when they can.This week is going to be really cold. I am praying my electricity,heat and water keep running. I however have the best parents for learning to conquer these kinds of things. Growing up we went camping alot! We also played some board game that I can't think of the has to do with survival questions. Plus we watched lots of survival shows together. We would always talk about how we need to be prepared for certain things. Like normal parents they had is learn where to go if we had a fire or a tornado. We had a safety bucket ready in the basement. We had a car kit with suplies. It had been engraved into our heads. Now that I live in Alaska I am actually using some of my knowledge that I have gained. Since I know it is going to be horribly cold (-45°)and if my power goes out I am in trouble. Tonight I have prepared food that I can eat cold. I have a cooler I can use and fill with snow or even the bathtub,I have 9 gallons of water, Candles, flashlight, sleeping bags that are good to -30°,even the fixings for a fire if it really comes down to needing too.  I have lots of non cotton layers since cotton kills when it is this bloody cold out. I even have  Koda  taken care of with enough food ,water, treats,and coats. So yes living in the last frontier can be a challenge for people who don't know how to survive up in this neck of the woods. I think I will do just fine.

Koda the secret ninja.

So it was a normal day. My friend asked me to if I wanted to come pick up a mattress with her and hall it up her two flights of stairs. I was like why not I have been stuck at home for three days with nothing to do.  She said I could bring Koda over to play with her dog since he has also been couped up in our cabin. So we go get this mattress and struggle bussed getting it up the stairs.We decided we wanted to go get some shopping done and go out for dinner. Well we put her dog in his kennel and Koda in the bathroom with some toys and treats. Now Koda is known for jumping into my bathtub, climbing across the furniture, under furniture. Being a mountain goat you could say. Well we got home and I went to let the dogs out(who let the dogs out? Woof woof) .... Yes I let the dogs now that song will be stuck in your head.  I am really that mean. So I opened the door and, I looked at the mirror and there was tongue prints all over it,the soap bottle was leaking and the glass shelf was broken, and the hand towel was on the floor. I looked at Koda  and asked him how in the world he got up there without falling and why on earth he felt like making such a mess. I called my friend in and we both laughed about it. My dog is a secret ninja there is now doubt about it.

I Will Always Be a South Dakota Girl

Hello!
Now that I have been up in this winter wonderland and escaped my cabin I have made friends here and there. Well I tend to try and be a very helpful, and kind person. I do what I can to make other peoples lives better.  I have had many people ask me where I am from. I always say South Dakota with a big smile. (Apparently I also have an accent when I say it and a few other words haha.) They are always saying  I need to meet more people from South Dakota you are so nice.  I also get asked why people there are so and willing to go out of their way to help others. I explain that is just how everyone is. Everyone is willing to pitch in and help you if you needed it. Say you just had a baby and you can't cook for your family. At least 2 people will bring you a meal. We are hard workers and if we see a job that needs to get done we do it, or if someone needs help and they can't tackle it themselves we tend to jump in. It is just built into us the day we are born. I don't know why we are this way but it doesn't bother me one bit. 

I love being a girl from South Dakota! No matter where I go in this world that will always be my home!  I will still have my roots there in the land of hospitality,hard work, making a mean casserole,and generally being a nice person. South Dakota has raised me well.

Koda and Moving Day

Well hello world.
So yay all, well most of our house hold goods arrived. We are missing a few things so I'm going through the list and checking it twice. However Koda is having a hay day. So when the movers showed up he was extremely excited to meet new people! However we couldn't keep him out so we put him in the bathroom. Them he wouldn't stop barking. So I went and sat with him which worked out since there really wasn't room for me anyway. So after the movers left Austin and I started unpacking things and let Koda out. Well we decided about 5 mins in  that he is also part cat and mountain goat. I should have gotten a picture but he was everywhere and in everything. He was in boxes, jumping from furniture to furniture since they were all stuck so close together. He was sniffing everything since it smells like my dogs from back home.  Climbing in-between things carrying paper around. It was pretty funny. So we left to help a few friends out and we needed a break. So we brought Koda with us. When we came home he played around a bit as Austin and I unpacked the last few boxes.  Well we hadn't heard him running around at all. Normally when your puppy is quite he is up to no good or sleeping like most toddlers do. Well we called his name and threw his toys around. No Koda any where. Well he loves to play hide and sleep. Well now that he has more places to play his favorite game it gets a little tricky to find him. So we looked and looked he was under a coffee table with boxes all around it with  a gap just big enough for him to fit through. He is one silly dog!
I guess I should get back to moving things around and organizing. Have a good day!

When the Grinch and Buddy the Elf Share a Spotify account.

Hello!
So as many of you know I am pretty much Buddy the Elf when the clock strikes 12 AM on December first. Sometimes a few days before that. Well my wonderful husband is the Grinch when it comes to this holiday season. How did Buddy the Elf marry the Grinch ? Well we are still trying to figure that one out. He is a good sport and puts up with most of my shenanigans.
  Well we share a Spotify account and I was adding music and making some playlists the other day mostly Christmas tunes. However I am still learning how to use Spotify. I had downloaded a playlist 101 Christmas songs because it had the favorite old ones and the new ones. I though it would make its own tab on the playlist section no big deal right!? Huh well it added it the library of music. Now I have my playlists that I only listen too. Austin on the other  hand listens to the whole library because it is all of his playlists. So Austin was listening to music and driving around with one of his friends and all of sudden it changed to Christmas music he was like what is going on, skipped through the next few songs and they were all Christmas. His friends looked at him and said " I didn't have you pegged as the holiday spirt guy". Austin then said " I am not I am married to Buddy the Elf and this is her doing".  When he told me I laughed so hard I cried. So I oops my bad!