Dave, I think the ice melted.......

This is our big garage sale buy. We got all the equiptment except the jersey. This is the uniform the city league uses. He is hoping to sign up this fall.

Emma's field trip to Cook Inlet beach

Here are some pictures of Emma's field trip to Cook Inlet Beach, which comes off the Gulf of Alaska the northern border of the Pacific ocean. The kids had to do a scavenger hunt. It was fun. The oil platforms are in the background right off the beach. Cheveron owns most of them. Anyway it was fun.

CAN THE KIDS COME OUT AND JUMP?

COLBY AND JACK WANT TO PLAY.




















BESSY WANTS TO PLAY TOO....



















MEET OUR NEW NEIGHBORS....

PLAYING IN THE YARD

Here are the kids playing in the back yard.

Here are the boys playing in the yard.

Let there be light

Well it is now about 60 degrees. The sun is up before 5 am and goes down about 11 pm Its so fun to have so much light. Its hard to go to bed on time though. You just don't realize its late, when it looks like it's noon. The kids only have less than 2 weeks of school left so getting to bed won't be much of an issue anymore. Fishing season has started. It is halibut time and the hooks you see Jessica holding in one of the pictures below, are the ones we use for halibuts. They are big, but so are the halibut. Usually anywhere from 20-150 lbs. Its really fun to hook one and takes about 20-30 min. to reel them in. In the first outting on the boat, we got stopped for a safety check, you know, to make sure we have suffecient safety gear and everything up to code...... and we passed. Shweew.
Safety, punkin, safety!
I'm a safety girl.

2 points if you can tell me where the last 2 lines came from!

PINE WOOD DERBY

jaw breaker in his cheek and a car in his hand......

THIS IS DAVE'S LAST YEAR DOING THE DERBY, then he graduates. He did very well, actually the best he has ever done.

SO Dave got 2nd place at the pine wood derby and made it to districts. He did not win in districts but had fun. Here are some pictures of his race. Grandpa got to be a judge.

so what do you get when dave gets ahold of the camera? ....... pictures like this!

OUR BACKYARD, A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS DAVE AND EMMA?

SPENDING TIME WITH THE CRANKY YANKEE

NOW THATS A FISH HOOK!

EASTER PICNIC AT KENAI BEACH

THE BEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLAM SHELLS ANYONE? EMMA WAS SURE THERE WAS GONNA BE A PEARL INSIDE. SHE EVEN WORE HER PINK DRESS EVEN THOUGH ITS ABOUT 35 DEGREES.

SO HERE ARE SOME PICTURES, from Easter, we went for a picnic on Kenai beach. There were ice bergs washed up on the beach and the tide was out. Its one of the biggest tides in the world. It goes in and out twice a day and is about a 20 foot tide. We went on an easter egg hunt in old downtown Kenai, notice the moose behind emma in one of the pictures, I think it was more scared of the hordes of children running down the streets looking for eggs than the kids were of him.