Thanksgiving Day Parade and Fireworks

Bon Fires, Light Parades, Snow Ball fights, Christmas Caroling and Fireworks!!!

Thanksgiving Day Parade and Fireworks

We went to the Kenai Thanksgiving Day parade and Fireworks show. It was a light parade and since we have all daylight in the summer when most people do fireworks for the 4th of July, we do our fireworks here in the winter when we have darkness. They did a big bon fire, and gave the kids hot chocolate and cookies. It was fun, there was this big snow hill from plowing and there were a million kids on it, throwing lots of snowballs.

EMMA'S SCHOOL PICTURE

THIS IS EMMA'S SCHOOL PICTURE AND HER STORY BEHIND IT. I DID NOT KNOW SHE ORDERED OR POSED FOR PICTURES UNTIL IT WAS OVER, SHE MADE THIS DECISION ON HER OWN. SHE DID HER OWN HAIR, PICKED HER OUTFIT (SAME ONE AS LAST YEARS PICTURE) PICKED THE POSE, AND USED HER BIRTHDAY MONEY FROM HER DAD AND NANA TO BUY THEM. SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF HERSELF. SHE LOVES HER PICTURES AND THINKS THEY ARE WONDERFUL.

We went to Chena while in North Pole, and it was soooo nice, very hot and lovely!!! Here is Maaret and Jenny enjoying the Chena Hot Springs, ok so only Maarets legs got to enjoy the hot springs but you know what they say, "part or nothing!" and it was worth it!

Don's Birthday (33) at Maarets house Nov 11--- HAPPY BIRTHDAY DON!!!

Daved, Jerry, Maggie and August (Maarets youngest) swimming

Emma and Sophia (Jennys youngest) swimming at the base pool in North Pole, AK

So, everyone wants to see a picture of Don, so here you go. This is Don, we met at truck driving school and have been talking ever since. :)

sledding in fairbanks

we came to fairbanks to visit the sisters and we decided to go sledding. jerry and don did a great job pulling the kids all over, we didnt really have a hill anywhere so we used the 4 wheeler and the big boys! the kids had a great time. i thought it was cold though, about 1 degree outside, which is better than yesterday at -20. so we picked the right day to go sledding. the kids didn't seem to mind.

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dave and emmas project

emma was excited to have someone she knew come to look at her poster.

dave and emma did health posters at school. daves was about eating healthy and emmas is about healthy teeth.

daves camping trip

dave was supposed to go camping across the inlet to a remote spot but they got all the way to homer to get on the boat to get ot the camp, but the waves were 15-20 foot swells, so some of the leaders and kids wanted to cancel it so 5 boys and don set up camp in our yard. they had fun and stayed out side, never came in.

ahhh.... more pictures found

Here are a few pictures of baby August, Maarets youngest (until the twins come at christmas!)


Here is Maaret reeling in her Halibut on the Katchamack Bay (Bering Sea in Alaska)
Here is Cassie and baby Andy her only baby so far (until her baby girl comes about January or Febuary i think)

Maarets 1st halibut
This is funny, it is a plumbing store, there sidewalk is lined with toliets growing flowers!
This is a waterfall picture that turned out pretty funny, This is in Whittier AK
Whittier Ak again.

Emma doing the zero gravity ride.
Here is a picture of me in my training, we were simulating a chemical spill


Maaret's first Halibut

Dave and Emma having a water fight at Kenai beach

EMMA WITH HER BEST FRIEND RACHEL, they have dicided its cooler to be a nerd than popular, cuz nerds are the rich ones when they grow up!
Dave looking over Russian River Falls, if you watch, the Red Salmon will actually jump in teh air to get upstream!
On the hike to the Falls