Brenna Frost:  

Life After high school, I attended California State University Sacramento. However, the experience at such a large university left me feeling uncomfortable with my surroundings. (Plus I wasn't excited to live in all that smog!) When I was 20 years old my friends were all surprised when I announced I was moving to Alaska (with one week's notice). I tried to imagine what Anchorage would be like, but I could only bring to mind the Jack London books I had read when I was a child. When I arrived at the Anchorage airport I was welcomed by my brother Aaron and quickly moved in with him until my dorm room opened in the fall. Aaron did a wonderful job as my guide of his adopted home state. We hiked up mountains and rock-climbed along the Seward Highway more times than I can remember. My brother and I were reintroduced as the friends we hadn't been in nearly 20 years. He acquainted me with the university and many people with whom today I am still friends. I attended school for two semesters and enrolled in mostly fun, artsy classes like yoga and photography. At the time I was majoring in Art and was very interested in both photography and ceramics. One snowy Saturday my roommate invited me to join her and a friend to go skiing. She told me of her friend who knew me from school, but I couldn't place the name to a face. When he came to pick us up from our dorm, I instantly recognized him as the young handsome classmate from our photography course. We both had a great time skiing that day and have never stopped spending time together. Jason and I dated and traveled all over Alaska and California, living as carefree college students. We skied during the winter and rock climbed and camped during the summer. My life took an exciting and rewarding twist when we married on November 17th in a wonderful ceremony on an unusually stormy winter day. Our wedding was set in Palmer, Alaska, Jason's hometown. Because of a major winter storm, my bridesmaids and I, in our wed...Expand for more