Looks of Determination

These pictures are also of the park yesterday. I had to put these in here. They were too cute to pass up. These are the looks of determination. They are on the monkey bars. You know, I don't know if I ever could do the dang monkey bars. I know when I try now, there is NO way!!! I don't know if it is the weight that I can't hold up or just that I am too old. It also, hurts my hands. What happens that we can do things as kids and then as we grow up, there is no way that we can do them? It is amazing!!! (Notice the tongue sticking out in both of these shots!)

Day at the park

Well, today was sort of a do nothing day for us!! And, we thoroughly enjoyed every minute of doing NOTHING!!! We don't get many of these, so we took advantage of it! Although, after being asked many, many times, I finally gavei n and took the kids to the park and decided to take the camera along. (You guys probably didn' t want to see any pics of us sitting around!) My kids have become camera hogs. But, that is alright with me! These pictures were taken about 10:00pm. Yes, we are in the land of the midnight sun. The sun is just barely going down at about 1am. Then gets kinda duskish by about 3 am and then it is back up around 4 or 5 am. It was cloudy on and off today and just so happens to be really cloudy behind the kids. The clouds mostly stay on the mountains though. I don't know why! Hope you guys are all having a wonderful weekend!

Baby Crocs

You guessed it!! These are McKinley's shoes. These are so cute! She loves shoes!!! Almost as much as Emily!! They have to get a pair of shoes almost everytime we go to Wal-Mart!! (By the way, we are getting the first Supercenter in Anchorage!=)I think she needs some jibbets though.. But, I don't think they make them for baby crocs. Do they? You guys get everything about a year before we do, so you will have them first.

Oh and just to let you know, I did meet the Col. today, but with his schedule and Shane's appt. for today, we couldn't meet up, so we meet on Monday!! He has already involved about 2 other people, so things are getting done! Thanks for all your prayers! I can't wait to start with this new challenge!! I have already begun to think about what I want to capture!! Thanks for giving me direction Ame!

DAIRY QUEEN, FINALLY!!!

Today, Shane had appointment after appointment. So, while he was in one of them, he sneaked off to Dairy Queen. YES, I said Dairy Queen!! We have one now!! It has been opened for about 2-3 weeks and still we were in line for the drive thru for about 45 minutes. Hey, we had time to kill!! And since we have a DVD player in the car, the kids didn't mind too much! So, here is Jacob with a chocolate dipped cone. Well, actually he already ate most of it! Look at the drip of ice cream coming off his chin! LOL. (He was watching a movie.)


Here is my little princess eating an oreo blizzard!! I couldn't believe it, but she ate a medium blizzard all by herself!!

And here is the wee little princess eating her ice cream cone!! She doesn't quite know what to do with the cone yet!! So, when it gets down into the cone, she uses her fingers to dip it out like a spoon! I am waiting for her to act like Jerome (Ms. Elouise's brother) and eat the bottom out of the cone first!!LOL.

And, yes, we got into trouble because we didn't get Shane an ice cream. But, it would have melted!!! That is my story and I am sticking to it!!!

Good Big Bro!

I had to blog this picture today, because Jacob is such a good big brother. He always takes care of his little sisters. Now, that doesn't mean that he doesn't like to aggrevate the snot out of them, but he is so sweet with them. And, don't tell him, but they secretly love him too! Mackie watches every move he makes and tries to do everything he does, and Emily too. She does flips, she dances like Em, likes to have her nails polished, and shoots guns like her big bro. Jacob always sits on the arm of the couch and watches tv, and in this shot she climbed up there and sat right next to him and was watching cartoons too. Now, mom, doesn't Mac's face look a little like mine when I was little?? I have a picture here that she kinda looks like! Hallelujah!! One finally may look a little like me!!
The kids had a dentist appt. today, and on the way back home, we saw this moose. I think she just had a baby. So, she is a little skinny. Here she is having some chow! (as military folks call it).

My flowers

A short one tonight ladies........As I was watering my flowers tonight, I noticed the water drops on the petals. I thought it looked so pretty. So, I snapped this picture. Actually I am really proud of this shot. I think it might be one of the best ones yet!

Thunderbird Falls

I am pulling from the archives today. This shot was taken when we first got to Alaska, 4 years ago. This was taken right before Shane went to Afghanistan the first time! We went and hiked up to Thunderbird falls. It was about a 2 mile hike, I guess. Turns out when you get all the way up there, the falls is just a little waterfall, but all in all it was a good family outing. This was back when my husband walked faster than I did!! LOL. I guess Emily was about 2 and Jake was about 4, and Mac wasn't even thought about yet! It is good to look back at the good ol days sometimes!
PS. Ame do you remember this pic? You helped me get the camera strap out of it!!! Thanks again!!