How is started

Well hello blogging world!! I am whitney kerr and I am blogging my family's big move to craig, alaska.
As most of you know my husband and I have been together for 5 years, married for 3 months. We have two handsome boys, Kolby is 2 kyler is 8 months :) we are about to embark on the greatest adventure of our lives!

If you would have asked us a year ago if we would move to alaska we would have said no, but never doubt the future! You see my husband has been a helicopter lineman for the last year, hanging from helicopters fixing power lines, any man's dream job!  The down fall was that he was gone 3 weeks a month, Missing out on our boys growing up! So dean slowly started looking for another apprentice position that would not only allow him to work towards his journeymen but also be home every night.
In late October northwest lineman college (school dean graduated from) posted an apprentice job opening in alaska, so with faith and hope dean applied. However by thanksgiving we still hadn't heard anything, disappointed but happy he still had a job.
Once dean returned to work he received a phone call to set up a phone interview with alaska power and telephone! We didn't want to get our hopes up knowing that over 1,000 people had applied,  we had faith that if it was right it would happen. Dean was offered 3 phone interviews, all which went amazing. During the 3 phone interview they offered to fly him and I up there. Of course we took the offer!
So on January 2 dean and I flew to Ketchikan then to kalwock alaska. We spent 3 days driving around, looking at the island as well as their electrical system. We fell in love, it was gorgeous, small, welcoming and well a mans dream home.
At the end of the 3 day trip they offered dean the job, an apartment to move into and a moving stipend. But best of all being able to come home every night! We were so excited!
We flew back and shared the great news with the family, then started planning for the big move. We were scared, we didn't know how much it would cost Or how to get all our stuff to an island. So after talking to an amazing couple who moved there we decided that a trailer would be best for all our stuff. We weren't sure how to get one but we knew it would work out.
In the mean time we had a lot to get done, dean had to finish up with the Oregon national guard and switch to alaska and I had to get healthy. while at guard deans friend traded him for a trailer. Things seemed to really fall into place.  However as dean was taking the trailer to Idaho it fell to pieces. We were extremely blessed that deans dad bob was able to cosign a lease in order for us to buy one.
Now with a brand new trailer loaded bob and dean drove back to Seattle to load up what I had here at my moms. Then they were off :)
I however, had a lot to do before I could leave. I was really sick and needed a fecal transplant as well as a hysterectomy so we decided it would be smarter for the boys and I to come up once I was healed! Well that day is Friday!
This will be a blog of our trip, the trip my mom, the boys and I will be taking into Canada and off to alaska. 4 days in the car followed by 9 hours on a ferry! It will be an adventure and I hope you all enjoy our adventure with us :).