Congrats!

Congratulations to all 2008 graduates~~~especially Raleigh, William, Luke, and Evan!

Debbie's Visit & promised moose calf pictures

See*** there is a second babe behind momma moose!



I thought I would color coordinate myself with the Alaska Railroad!

So, Debbie from Louisiana came up to the wilds of Alaska from the 11th til the 23rd of May*edited thanks to Eagle eye Janet!*. We had a blast! She was able to see a lot of the countryside, see all of the kids, and the most thrilling part for us ...she made GUMBO! She also brought me PJ's Southern Pecan Coffee which I haven't had in years and she brought Kelli Sue... Boscoli Italian Salad! Now we will wallow in muffulettas!
Chelsi is here and working at NANA Training.
Ryan has returned from Arizona and is starting work on the slope next week.
Kelli left right after school got out for Scotland. She goes to Michigan tomorrow to spend the summer working at the Boathouse Restaurant and staying with my folks.

2 itsy bitsy teeny tiny baby moose

At about 11:30 last night I was out on the porch taking sunset pictures when what to my wandering eyes appeared but a Momma Moose with her 2 beautiful moose calves. Due to my excitement in telling Ryan and Mike and the lateness of the hour, the pictures are not too swell, but I will get them posted later. I was soooo thrilled...and so were Mike and Ryan, who watched them from Kelli's downstairs window for about 5minutes. They chomped and chewed and scampered along, and looked right at us a few times. Just too cute!

Already MAY!

Whew...it has been awhile!

I have been having the best time digi~scrapping with all the freebies out there and then sending them to costco , where for basically 3 bucks , I can pick up gorgeous 12 x 12 completed pages, a few hours later! I love technology!

Kelli and I spent a wonderful 9 days on a Danube river Cruise ship. Too much fun! Also spent 3 days in Prague before the cruise. Met up with Lesley and Nick in Budapest too! Unbelievable!

Ryan turned 19 on the 25th of April!

I am doing Shimelle's online 25th of each month book!

Iditarod

Richard and Majbritt picked us up this morning at 7:15am and we headed downtown to watch the ceremonial start of the Iditarod. Chilly but the sun came out and it warmed up abit. We had a great breakfast with the senator and then went down to the races. Govenor Palin was also attending. Fabulous time and it was so exciting, interesting, and fun!

Happy Saint Valentine's Day! YESTERDAY!

Happy Belated Birthday to SARA!

and Happy Saint Valentine's Day to ALL!

Chelsi got beautiful pink roses and I get to look at them!

We had a wonderful dinner of Alaskan King Crab Legs, baked potatoes with sour cream, salad, and I actually made raspberry Napoleons! The crab was sooooo yummy that that is all Kelli ate! The legs were soooo big that even broken they were hanging out of the pot. Terrific! The napoleons were superb, but we were all so full of crab and potatoes that we hardly appreciated them!

Look at the cute visitor we had in our garden last Saturday!

Paris!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to "Got Paint" with em, I finally finished my PARIS mini album. Only 2 years later!!! Thanks Bonnie Eck for talking me into attending "Paper & Co. Show"! It was so inspiring and so much fun!