Here's kelly with her matching flowers on the Alyeska Resort


Goof balls on the tram


This is all of us on the Portage Glacier cruise (yes, my pictures are all out of order- sorry to confuse anyone :) )

Brad and Grandpa- buds on the Tram


Grandma, Kelly and me- on the tram too

looking at the Glacier


The kids were totally amazed my the glacier ice that they had in the cooler for you to feel- kinda funny- we're gonna try this one at home for entertainment and see if it's as entertaining :)


This was a really fun time to go on the Portage Glacier cruise because it was such a nice day!


This was up at the Alyeska Ski Resort Hotel. Right when you walk in the lobby this huge display is up in the wall above the entrance. REALLY COOL!! Looks pretty real.


It was really fun to go down to portage with Grandma and Grandpa. We hope they had a good time.

This is another cool spot off the Seward Highway, these trees were killed in the Tsunami after the earthquake in '64 (I think) and so they just stand there dead, looking kinda funny.


another good view off the Seward Highway


We got to show Grandma and grandpa the Portage Glacier


I love this picture


Big Ice Chunks out in the lake

luke likes the fake fish at the Imaginarium the best- he got soaked!


after the Imaginarium we went to "our spot" and watched some of the big jets take off.


Brad let Grandpa "push him high!"


On our way down to Portage, just off the Seward highway, we got to see some Dall Sheep up on the cliff- They look like little microscopic dots bouncing around on the side of the mountain, but it's still pretty cool to see them out in the wild like this.


ahh the beautiful view from the Seward Highway! LOVE THIS DRIVE!!

Imaginarium

We got to show Grandma and Grandpa around our Imaginarium- that was pretty fun.

I taught Nate how to make bubbles with the big rings, and now he makes bigger ones than I do the little stinker!


cute picture!


inside the big bubble together


grandma's favorite Stacking Soldiers!

Grandma and Grandpa are HERE!!

Kelly found a nice cozy spot next to grandma as soon as she could- to read books!

Brad hit it off with Grandpa pretty quickly too- they became good wrestling buddies all week :)

We're so happy they're here!!

Charity Video

This was one of the first times that Charity was able to go across on her own. I'll get some more recent videos on here now that I know how to do it :)

Homemade Raspberry Icecream!!!

Adding the Raspberries!!



looks so yummy!!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!! Eating the fruits of their (dad's) labors! My kids are so cute :)

I got to go up to Palmer this morning with a friend and go to the U-Pick Farm. It's a farm that they let you just go pick your own veggies and fruits, and then they just charge you by the pound for everything at the end. It was a really fun experience. I got a WHOLE bunch of food. Broccolli, Cauliflower, peas, peas and more peas, potatoes, Kohlrabi, and some raspberries too. I'm gonna have to make it back up there and get some zucchini next time!! Then I can make that yummy chocolate chip zucchini bread- love that stuff!!! It was need to see how everything grows though- how sad that I had no idea what broccoli even looked like coming out of the plant.

So this evening we made some homemade Raspberry Icecream! We had fun and it was SOOOOOO yummy!!!

Just some Pictures

Charity had really loved Kelly's face-painting the other day, so she took her glitter powder stuff that she got from her friend's birthday party, and "painted" her own kitty face :) Pretty good job too!

The kids were all lying down on their tummies to watch a movie, and I just thought it was so cute that Luke got down on the floor with them trying to be like the big kids :)
There are a few extra kids in this picture- the boy next to Charity is her "new best friend" she totally loves him- it's kinda cute, but totally scares me for her teenage years :) we'll see :)




This is a really cute picture that Kelly drew- it's an airplane in case you can't tell, but I just thought she did such a cute job on it! She really takes time to capture all the detail :) What an artist!

Brad's new bike!

Look at him go!!!

He likes watching his feet pedalling :) Kinda cute until he crashes into something :)

He looks so cute in this one!



Well we finally found a bike for Bradley! It was only 5 bucks, so we were pretty happy about that :) It's a little big for him, but he sure loves it!! He's a pro already! He's always begging to go on bike rides now. Just wanted you all to see him on his "new" bike. (please ignore the pink training wheels, it's because they were easier to put on than the other, more unisex, ones we have. Hopefully Daddy can change them up soon :) )

Now Lukey can call this bike "his"

Brad's old bike is moving down the line- it's Luke's now! Luke is obsessed with these puddles on our street. He obviously can't get enough of them- now he has a new way to enjoy them :)

Now we can all go out and ride bikes :)

Alyeska Title Family Picnic

Nate took us to his work picnic last night. It turned out to be a REALLY FUN thing for the family. Charity got to ride the "bucking salmon". She did SO GOOD- she rode him for over a minute and as she puts it "NEVER EVEN FELL OFF!" (the guy controlling it thought she looked scared, so he stopped it- but she was pretty proud of herself for not falling :) Bradley, Kelly and Charity all had the time of their lives in the big jumping cage- I don't think Brad's ever been in one of those before- he had so much fun! Then we got some frisbees, and had a yummy dinner, tried to win some raffle prizes (which for some reason they never called our numbers!!! :( ) And the highlight of the evening- the kids got to get their faces painted. When the face painting lady asked Charity what she wanted she said "glitter", so the lady improvised :) Kelly was a kitty-cat. Bradley was a very cool Spider man! You should have see Luke's reaction to Brad's face- it was way cute! They were laughing at each other. The kids love to have their faces painted, so waiting in line for an hour was totally worth it :) It poured most of the time we were there, so we all woke up with colds :o) But we sure had a really good time. The lake we were by (Mirror Lake) was really pretty too- unfortunately my camera battery was dead so I didn't get any pictures while we were there. There was however a guy there taking pictures and he supposedly puts them on a website and sends the link to everyone in the company, so I'll keep ya posted if I ever get my hands on more- it was a really fun picnic!