Property!

Here are some pictures of our property. Note: not ALL these kids belong to us....phew....just 8 of them! We had some visitors yesterday :).

Rachel and Sarah

 

   

 We have to have some fun sometimes! :)

Madelyn and Emmali

Micah and Jordan working on the house

Nathanael chilling by the fire.....and......Sarah...uh, being Sarah! :)

Ben and Owen

Yummy $10 Watermelon (yep, this is Alaska)

a not-so-steep driveway (the new driveway)

Tanna working hard :)

Sam trying to act cool and Ben chopping wood.

The view from our property....just kidding. You have to walk up our power-line to see this

Ben, Owen, Madelyn, Rachel, Sarah and Miriam (right before my grand story with them)

Madelyn and Sarah swinging

Micah on top of the house (pretty epic picture)

Owen and Tanna

Another view of our house!

Danny stacking wood.

And there is our day at the property :). 

Military Parade

Last Saturday, our Military put on a "Salute To Our Military Parade". Thousands of Alaskans came to say "Thank-You" to our Military. It was said to be one of the largest Military Appreciation Events in the history of Alaska!

It was so neat to be able to go and be a part of that. I've never seen so many men and women in uniform at one time in my life! They said that there were over 5,000 active, veteran and wounded members of the military there.

Here are a few pictures from that day! Enjoy! You can make the picture larger by clicking on it :).

THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE PROTECTING AND DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY!!!

May!

Why hello there! So much for my great plan and updating this blog frequently :). Anyways....May has been a super exciting month!

To begin the month, THE SNOW IS GONE! This may not be exciting to y'all, but it is to us! The leaves actually started to get GREEN!! As you can see in the picture, I am very happy! We now have more than buds on the trees...we have LEAVES and LOTS of sunshine! You will never appreciate the summertime until you have survived a -50 winter.


And then, Micah came home on the 8th! He has been at Champion Baptist College in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He just finished up his sophomore year there. We are glad to have him home! 

This is the first we year that my mom decided to start a 'garden'. She has planted lots of vegetables and flowers. We now have an entire room FULL of plants! I think she planted more than she originality had planned, but it will be good once it is more than green plants :). We literally have plants coming out of our ears! Yesterday, the kids were so excited when they found the first strawberry!  I'll get more pictures of our garden later.









<-----Sarah enjoying the sunshine on the trampoline.

-----> Mom grilling in the pouring rain! Since you can't see the rain in the pic, you'll have to trust me on this one :).

Here are some pictures of a day at the park with Sam and Sarah

Sam hanging off a train.

Sarah standing with some moose antlers and our Alaskan flag.

Sam and Sarah standing by a dredging bucket (used for gold mining)