The Jessi James Gang

Just because - December 15, 2016

Gospel Doctrine teacher - December 11, 2016

I think he's handsome.

Christmas Bird Count for Kids - December 10, 2016

The Ray's bought a house in a neighborhood across town. So while their parents move, Elijah, Malachi and Matthew came with us to the Alaska Zoo. (Elijah, Lincoln, Malachi, Mathew and Meta) We learned about Birding - how to identify birds by shape, sound, shade (color), and more. We spent 1.5 hours learning about birds. They even brought in a Peregrine Falcon named Snake. Then we spent 1 hour outside in the zoo looking for wild birds. We saw ravens, chickadees, mallards, waxwings and a woodpecker. After the hour, we met up in the auditorium again for pizza and warm cider and to tally all the birds we saw. Our group, The Magpies, saw the largest number of birds, so each of the kids got a laminated guide to Alaska's birds.

The Ray boys and Meta did great outside, but after 30 minutes in 6-degrees-F cold, Lincoln was crying from cold toes. I wrapped my sweatshirt over his coat and we went inside the coffee shop to warm up. We put hand warmers in Lincoln's boots for the walk back to the auditorium and that did the trick. It also may have helped, that instead of looking for birds and being hurried along, we just wandered back and looked at zoo animals along the way.

Halloween Scare - October 31, 2016

Trunk or Treat at the church - decorated the truck with balloon spiders we made.

Bass Pro Shop has a pretty impressive polar bear.

Firefighter and Little Red Riding Hood/Big Bad Wolf.

Happy 10th Anniversary to Us! - October 10, 2016

For our 10th Anniversary, James and I stayed at Hotel Alyeska while Tia Kathleen stayed with Lincoln and Meta.

The collage shows James and I when we were dating at Brighton Ski Resort, our picture at 10 years at Alyeska Resort and our cute family - Lincoln is 5 and Meta is almost 2.

Thanks Tia Kathleen! (Get some sleep)

Cordova Adventure - September 16-19, 2016

16th On the airplane from Anchorage to Cordova - less than an hour flight with cookies and juice. Easiest flight ever.

17th - We took Delta for a walk out to Sheridan Glacier.

Lincoln is a bit scared of Delta. She's a jumpy puppy. We told him to just hold still whenever she came close, do not run. We didn't want her to think it's a game and chase him and have super-scared-and-jumpy-puppy issues. He added the raising his hands on his own. I think Lincoln looks like he's "surrendering". They did really well on the walk, but on the way out, Delta did knock into Lincoln and he's pretty emphatic that he doesn't like dogs.

Thanks Grandma!

Meta napped in the car with Grandpa watching over her while we hiked to the glacier. So when she woke up, we did a little exploring along the glacier run-off creek.