Saturday, August 18, 2007

Alaska!!

Capturing a picture of the bald eagle. We saw alot of them.
This is my brother in law Byron and his son Ben they took us out fishing.

Mountains in Alaska
Picture taken while on the fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean. Beautiful mountains in the background
Well, I haven't mastered putting pics. on this blog yet so these 1st 5 are out of order. This is a pic of Jeff and I in the airport in Alaska in front of a Polar Bear.
This beautiful photo was taken from the airplane we were flying over Glacier National Park I believe. Awesome!!!



On the way to my sisters house we toured a few places. This is a glacier I think it was in Seward.


Jeff standing behind a barrier with a warning to watch out for Bears as they had been seen in the area. Crazy! Believe me my eyes and ears were open.





More gorgeous mountains!














These are shops in Seward, Alaska with mountain backdrop. Their everywhere. Its so cool.





Cool pic. of the doc in Seward. Check out the snow covered mountains in the back.





Jeff with a Halibut he caught in the ocean. A 40 pounder I think they said.




Moose drinking from a stream



My brother Jon with his wife Robin and I at Russian River where we took a 6 mile hike. Very invigorating. And very beautiful.




Part of our hiking group. Jon, Robin my sister Linda in the pink and of course Jeff and I.




Had to show the kids I could climb out on the fallen trees over the rushing water too. In the front of the pic. in the red shirt are my nephew Jason & his girlfriend the guy hidden by the bushes is my nephew Ben.



Our hiking group looking over the edge with Ben taking awesome pics.



Ben has a gun hooked onto him because when you hike around there you need to be prepared to meet bear.



Waterfall coming down the mountain still part of our hike.














We saw a black bear by Russian river. We went out at about 11:30 pm which is when the animals are mostly on the move. It stood up straight and pulled down branches eating fruit off the tree. Very cool. See how light it is still even though its late at night. It stays light all day except for about 2 hrs. when it just turns dusk then sun is bright again. A little crazy to know when its bedtime.



















Saying Bye to good friends.






















Springtime in Duluth

This is our favorite place to go as a family. Canal Park in Duluth. Dad & his little man.
We just love each other!!


Mikayla and Dad - love the background too.








The fantastic 4 sporting the windblown look.





Friday, August 17, 2007

Birthdays




Victoria's Birthday was on Sunday this year. So we enjoyed celebrating #10 with her this year. Scary to think that she's almost a teen. Our beautiful little lady.


I'll try to add pics. of this summer's ventures when I figure out how to do it.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Fun with Friends

Fun times with the Ormiston crew before they left. We had a day at the pool -What Fun!! Jeffery & Elijah are enjoying lunch together at the pool.





Rachel and Emily Hill visited us from Texas this week. We had so much fun. They had a sleepover with the girls and they had lots of fun. Here we are on our way to the park.