Happy Halloween!

I love Halloween, but this just about marks the beginning of our trip around North America last year. (I want to do it again!) Anyway, Tyler was a ninja and Joe a skeleton. Too much candy...and none of it was even dark chocolate.

Summer = Fishing; Winter = Hockey

Basically, I think the rest of my life is FISHING and HOCKEY.

Joe is FOUR!

I am playing catch-up w/ the blog and editing the dates, but here is Joe when he turned 4. He celebrated his birthday in Michigan this past summer, once again at the House of Bounce w/ Cole Tasso (they share the same birthday -different year), and then we ate sushi on his REAL birthday! Where does all the time go?

Alaska State Fair

Big Cabbage, fish painting, and a bucking salmon, Alaska's answer to the the mechanical bull.

Red Shirt Lake

This may be one of the last few fishing trips of the summer. Wayne took the boys to find pike at a spot where they had to hike 3 miles in AND 3 miles out. He said they were real troopers, but unfortunately NO luck.

The end of summer?

Well, life moves forward. Tyler's in Kindergarten at College Gate Elementary, Joe spends two mornings at the Anchorage Cooperative Preschool, and I finally have my own office--Hooray! Wayne's still at ANMC, but I don't have any exciting pictures of his first day at work which was about 6 months ago...

Happy Early Birthdays!

Because the family couldn't join Chase for his real birthday in Vermont, the boys got to celebrate everyone's birthday a little early in Grand Rapids.

Lake Michigan

The boys are traveling all over the US (this time by plane). They got to have a reunion with Wayne's extended family and here they are with Grandma, Aunt Jen, Uncle Norm, Aunt Barb, and cousin Chase at the Lake.

Bird Creek

We're going fishing...instead of just a wishin'

Don't mess with Texas

We flew through Houston on our way to SC and back home to Alaska. On our way back we missed our flight to Anchorage by twenty minutes. Tyler, Joe, and I now know the Houston Airport very well, and due to an almost 24 hour layover decided to enjoy ourselves and went to the downtown aquarium. Getting stuck turned out to be lots of fun, but boy, oh boy, was Texas hot!

We love South Carolina!

Goodbye again to our family. We are so happy to have spent time with the Larkbys, Tita Ma and Tito Jun, Jojo and Frank, Jade and Sabrina, Tito Sam and Tita Del, and of course, Victoria, Tita Joy, Nanay and Lolo Tatay. We love and miss you already.

Budding Picassos

Tay set Tyler and Joe up for some backyard painting.