Happy Birthday Babe!!!

Today is R's bday!  Yesterday we went to his parents house where his mother has been excited to give him his present for about a month now.  You can see why:

Isnt that the coolest sign ever?  She had it made for him, and actually it was her brother that made it.  He's pretty amazing.  He's made some other stuff that we are just in AWE over.

So here's some typical R shots:

Then we made him cut his own cake... I know sweet of us, right?!

I have so much other stuff to post also. Maybe I'll post some tomorrow night..

or maybe I'll post a few right now!

OK, so I just edited these today, so they're doubled up so I could get smaller prints than just 4x6, you'll just have to look at them that way cuz I wanna go bed.
Here's my brother Spencer and his girlfriend who just got here from the Philippines, Yolanda!
Her first time fishing... she's getting a lot of firsts right now!

We went ice fishing last weekend with a bunch of people in case you were wondering, brought a 6 man tent and shoved 4 couples, and 2 kids in there.

We werent fishing for anything big, we just wanted to catch a fish and go somewhere out of the wind, so we went to Mud Lake which isnt really known for fish.

Joel was pulling people around in the sled all over the lake.

R got to use his auger I got for his bday!  He loves it by the way!

And here's some cute shots of Spencer and Yolanda in case some of you have never met her.

That was a really fun trip!  I know I've got tons more pics to post but I'll have to go through them first. 
Tomorrow I'm going scrapbooking with Cindy & my SIL, that's why I printed these pics today.
Dont forget St. Patrick's Day is on Thursday.  We have some friends who are big party people and they throw a party every year and have a Blarney Stone that we all kiss and sign our names on.

Our recent adventure...

Hiked up Hatcher's to one of the cabins with our awesome neighbors. Was super SUPER windy at the top, in fact I'm surprised everyone is smiling in this pic. Little Henry was not too happy, almost got blown away.

Didnt want Elizabeth to get blown away so J stowed her away in his pack.
She loved it!

We climbed to the top of that, you can kinda see the zigzag trail cut in on the left of the snow. That cabin is at the top. And below is the mine, or the ruins of the mine.

Then we hiked down to this other mine where the boys went exploring and brought out some mud for us to goldpan.

We were bored while waiting for the boys.

Here FISHY FISHY FISHY, I just wanna eat you!

(I know I'm not so good at this blogging thing in the summer, and sometimes I post 2 different posts, or in this case 3. So feel free to read all of them)

R's parents were so awesome to take us out fishing last week. So here are a few pics of our fun journey.

Fishing out of Whittier
Kayaking and stuff
Someone caught a skate, cant remember if it was R or his dad...

Just as we were coming into a little cove we must have hit a rock. It was so loud and destroyed our prop, good thing Ken carries a spare.

No fish in Whittier so we pulled out and headed to Homer.

This is the glassy waters out of Seldovia.

2nd day we were surrounded by many whales, so we fished near them. Where there's whales, there's halibut... apparently. Cuz that's where Ken caught a halibut with his bare hands.

This is a lonely halibut that surfaced near the boat, he followed his buddy up who was on Jordan's line.

This is the fisherman who caught that halibut with his bare hands!

Jordan started with this piece of bait, and about 20 halibut later it dwindled down to this (a piece or pieces of halibut skin)... and he was still catching fish with it. Silly boy!!! But very effective!

My SEXY FisherMAN

Isnt he just so photogenic while fishing. I just had to post some of his famous fishing pics from our halibut trip last week.

YEAH!!! WORK THOSE MUSCLES!!!
We're gonna have to work on your smile!

Now that's what I'm talk'in about.

Lets go Hiking...

The Plan ~ Go hiking on Tuesday


The Thought ~ Oh, it wont be that hard, just hiking


Where ~ Byers Peak


Weather ~ Hard Rain!


Reality ~ Oh we went hiking, we started out in the rain and everyone's rain-proof clothes were drenched inside and out. We hit snow not very far up, then some how we lost trail with the snow covering so we thought we'd head on over to where we thought the trail was... what did we find? Some drop-offs, and a creek. So after slipping down the mt we followed the creek to the bottom. We were so wet!

Looks like fun, huh???

That's the creek we followed down!

I'm guessing our friend will probably never want to go hiking with us ever again.

YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PRIVATE BRIDGE!

Posted By: R
"PRIVATE BRIDGE, NO ACCESS, VANDALS WILL BE PROSECUTED." By golly there will be access! I love to Explore, and when I hear, "No exploration here, its been discovered, go home now." It fires up a little angst deep inside me that brings back memories of grade school and a teacher saying, " look, we don't need explorers any more, we have our maps." I'm not really a fan of angry posting but a private bridge on public land, just smacks of everything that is wrong in the world today.

Hatcher Pass Adventure

We went to Hatcher Pass last week just for a short hike as it was getting dark,

and I decided to bring my camera so these are the results!

We were just playing around.

Yes, that's a bottle!

It was too dark to focus, but its still one of my faves cuz we're all in it!