Winter!

It's here. We got 5 inches of fresh snow on saturday and we are guessing it is here to stay this time. More is coming down today.
The dogs and I got out for a short ski behind the house on sunday- it was great, warm enough that I could ski in just a sweatshirt. Jeff was out cruising about on his snowgo setting some trails. Not much else exciting to report from the weekend. Oh- except Jeff caught a beaver, he was pretty excited. He caught his first one last winter, now he is a professional :)

Too Funny!

I just couldn't resist sharing a few more of these pictures- they are just too funny!

Road Trip

Last weekend we decided to get out of town and head down to Seward to visit Dave and Shiway then make the loop back up north through Fairbanks.

We headed south Thursday evening planning to camp out near the Denali highway but we stopped at a friends place at Summit lake along the way and ending up crashing at his place.....good thing too becuase the first picture below shows the conditions we found on the Denali hwy- not good for camping! We stopped alittle further south where there was less snow and did short hike.

Bear tracks in the snow

Pretty little stream

Back in the car....

We were supposed to meet friends for dinner in Anchorage on our way through but we stopped briefly to let the dogs out and Nellie came running back from the woods covered in blood. Luckily, it looked alot worse then it turned out to be but we had to stop in Palmer at the vet and she got 15 staples in her leg. It didn't seem to slow her some one bit. We won't talk too much about the tapeworms...we will just say that Nellie had a rough weekend and probably won't be invited back to our friend's houses any time soon.

We didn't take many pictures in Seward becuase it was raining so dang hard, the boys got out and took the picture above. Shi and I did get out briefly but spent most of the weekend talking about babies and weddings, Dave and Shiway are getting hitched on July 28th :) We left Seward just in time because the highway ended up closing for a while because of flooding. When Jeff and I left on Monday morning the water was already coming over the road in several places.

But I am gald we were not in Valdez. A guy at work sent me the picture below- this part of the highway will be closed for a while! You can see the street sign in the middle of the picture.

On our way north we spent the night in Healy at Emily's house. She had gotten a new Mac computer for school and it came with this fun built-in camera that distorts the images. We almost bust a gut laughing so hard at the pictures, hours of entertainment. Her students will never get any work done if she lets them play with this.

By the time we made it back home on Tuesday we had logged almost 1,000 miles!!

First Snow!!

Last Saturday morning this is what we woke up to! Luckily by the end of the day most of it was gone but it won't be long before everything is white.


Cold feet......poor Tecate is NOT in Mexico anymore!!

Ellie's Belly

Well... posting belly shots really goes against my better judgement but enough of you have harrassed me about it that I finally gave in. Here we (Cletus and I) are at 7 months. We went to the mid-wife last week and everything is looking really good- she said I was completely normal :) I have been feeling great and little Cletus is kicking up a storm these days.

Here is Jeff trying to read his Fur, Fish and Game magazine while I bury him in all the cute baby clothes our neighbor gave us. Patagonia baby snowsuits are REALLY cute!!