Our New Eagle

Just wanted to recognize our family's newest Eagle Scout. Brandon has worked hard and been helped along the way by some great leaders here in Alaska and in Utah where he started in the Scouting program. We are very proud of Dustin, our oldest son, for starting a great tradition for his brothers to follow and we're very proud of Daniel, Brady and now Brandon for the dedication and hard work to make it 4 for 4. Gregg and I are very proud of our sons and loved having 2 of Brandon's older brothers in attendance at his Court of Honor on Dec. 16, 2009. Brandon's big brother Dustin is active duty in the military and was unable to make it home, but Brandon found a way to include him by putting a picture of him in his left pocket making sure all 3 of his brothers were there for him. Way to go Brandon!!

Engagement

Brady has been attending Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. While at school he met lots of new friends and a beautiful girl named Samie, she likes to be called Sam. They have been dating for a couple of months and we knew things were getting pretty serious when he asked if he could bring her home for Christmas. We picked the kids, Daniel, Brady and Sam, up at the airport early on the morning of Dec. 14 and we stopped at the Welcome to the Kenai Peninsula sign on the way home and at 3 a.m. in front of the sign Brady asked Sam to marry him, the answer was yes and we will be planning our first wedding in August in the Manti Temple and getting our first daughter!! So excited and happy for the kids!! Congrats Sam and Brady!!

Winter Pictures

Winter Wonderland

It has been very cold and foggy the past few days but today turned out to be beautiful and sunny. It didn't take long for my fingers and toes to notice that it was only about 7 degrees even though it was sunny it was not warm. This time of year you have to make the most of a sunny day. The sun is only up for about 5 1/2 hours, got to soak up a few rays while you can.

Winter Moon and Sunrise

I haven't posted anything for a bit and finally went out to take some pictures of the moon. The moon was still very visible in the sky at almost 10 a.m. and so I was able to get pictures of the moon and of the sunrise all within about 15 minutes of each other. Face East and take pictures of the sunrise and turn around to the West and take pictures of the moon. Pretty simple right? I also got some winter pictures of Mt. Redoubt. The first pictures I have taken in awhile that haven't showed steam venting from the top of the mountain.
We had a bit of snow last week and also a day of rain. Snow and rain in the same week equals HEAVY slush and ice and during that time we had a moose come across the driveway and head up the front walk to the house. Wish he would have rang the doorbell to let us know he was there!

Something New

Make a Smilebox photobook

Simply Beautiful and Frosty

This is what I was doing when the Moose wandered into the yard and why I happened to be looking out the window. Anyone living in Alaska knows it has been quite chilly the past few days and we had started to get a frost build up on one of the windows. I was amazed at how pretty the designs in the frost were and I wanted to see if I could get some good pictures of it. So this is what I saw.....