Friday, August 23, 2013

Walnut Lake

Many of my fondest memories as a kid were on Walnut Lake.  We grew up in a neighborhood that had lake access and all summer long we were down at the beach swimming.  My family LOVES that lake.  My brother actually bought my parents house when they moved mainly because we wanted access to that lake for the rest of our life!  

Before the guys left for Alaska, Steve and my dad got to go fishing on Walnut Lake.  That lake is awesome.  They caught so many BIG fish and all different kinds.  It was an awesome day.  And, Jimmy was born that night, which was the icing on the cake!









Four Months


Schleners came to visit!

We didn't get a ton of pictures when Chris and LeAna came to visit, but we got a couple of the kids.  Caleb is such a cutie and Abby loved having a friend come over for the night!

We love it when friends come to visit!

(Thanks Julie Matthews for the slippers!)



Steve is 29!

Daddy is 29!

We love him so much.

He takes our pictures.

He plays with us.

He makes sure mommy doesn't loose it.

He packs for fun trips.

He loves us so much, we are blessed to have a daddy like him.






Matching outfits!

This isn't one of the matching outfits...but Abby was just so darn cute, I had to include it.


Our grandmas are great.  They both bought these outfits for our girls...Grammie bought the PJ's for Abby and Nana bought the outfit for Lucy....How fun? Neither of them saw the other outfit, they just happened to match perfectly!






She's five months.

I can't believe it....How did this little one get so old so fast?

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Alaska!

Check out the huge halibut!

cleaning station...gross


Scale! Gotta weigh the big ones!

Gross...

Beautiful....







The catch!



Puffins


Seals...


They caught some starfish
 What is that on top of the roof???
 A closer look...Yeah, it is a bald eagle....NBD





 At one point our family was all over the map....
 My dad slept in a day bed....
 Three grown men slept in the "cozy bear cottage"  No Joke


 Three hour boat rides out to the spot...
















 And....the loot...Yeah, they brought home some fish....




And...it would have cost $545 to check all of this.....They got it checked free with Steve's military ID.  Boom.