Alaskan ABC's

I saw quite a few fun ABC's done by people for the holidays and so we thought we would contribute with our very own version of Alaskan ABC's.  So sit back and enjoy your daily dose of the alphabet from Port Alexander!

A
A is for Airplane...or Sea Plane...it lands everywhere....

The quickest and best way to get to our little town.

Then and Now

I couldn't resist the comparison.  I recently got a shirt for Nia identical for the one she wore to daycare for her first photos.  So I figured why not recreate it to a certain degree.

 

Such a sweet angel.  We are sooo glad that we were blessed with this little girl!

I will always...

...have proof of how sweet my Jenner and Nia could be together.  I will have to pull this out as they get older and fight.....

We were walking to the school and he asked her if he could help her by holding her hand.  She was very willing and insistent that he continue to do so after that...

Makes my mother's heart smile!

So Sweet

Nia has decided much to her father's dismay that she really likes jewelry...even more to his dismay she has recently made the decision that she loves earrings....especially dangly ones.  So tonight when she saw me wearing my earrings she wanted some.  So I took mine off and put them one her ears so they would dangle for her.  She was so proud of her newly acquired accessories.  Kale might not want her to have her ears pierced until she is an old maid....but I think that fight is going to come sooner rather than later and I think he has already lost....

We shall see...wont we ladies?

Sunday Drive?!...Float

 Well we wanted to go and do something today with the weather being as nice as it was.  Since we can't go on Sunday drives after church, we settled for Sunday kayaking and hiking instead.

Nia was enjoying herself this time and kept trying to take the paddles from me.

Here we stopped off in the parking lot.

This IS the parking lot...a lot of people were dealing with mail so not as many boats were here as there usually are.

we have  fun bridge the kids like to cross...and do other kid things on..

What's a Sunday trip without snacks?

The kids found this twisty tree that they just had to have a picture with.

And of course mom and Nia finally got caught on camera....I guess it is fair since everyone else has to have their picture taken...

Kodak Moment

You can't help but smile with Jenner around.  He does some of the funniest things...

This is from his most recent moments of awesomeness.

He got all dressed up and declared........

"I am Gandalf the White...YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"

 

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He is pretty close right?

Just Like Dad

Friday was quite a day for the boys.  Two exciting things happened for them...one was they got to see a family of seals - or as the boys would have me correctly call them - a pod of seals swim in front of the house.  It was neat because we have seen lots of seals, but not as many as we did in that pod.  There was FIVE in the pod.  I told the kids that meant there was one for each of them.  They thought that was funny!

The other thing, which they found more exciting, was dad showed them how to use his chainsaw.  It isn't a big one.  But he showed him how to use it, and then let them cut a log in half.  They were all over the moon...don't believe Raiden and Judge if they say otherwise, but Ender by far was the most vocal about his extreme pleasure in using a chainsaw to cut a log in half.  He is like that.  He is always asking day if he will let him have an ax or a hammer to go and break things in half.  So far the answer has been no, so I am sure that was just thrilling to him.  I guess he is going to be a manly man, who LOVES himself some power tools!

 

Nia was just thrilled with being allowed to go out on the beach and be able to throw things into the water.....so she was easy to please.