Pt.2

Other then the lammo fishing, it was a lot of fun.  The boys were pretty well behaved, with my sister and brother there we had lots of helping hands.

Additionally I found out my mom can be sneaky.  She devised this plan to have Husband drive her car back to NP so that I could hangout longer with the boys!  I stayed five additional days between camp and her house in ER.  I would have stayed a bit longer but I had a prior engagement I had to get back for.  Mom stayed here for five days and even watched the boys for 2 days all by herself so that Husband and I could go out to moose camp to pick blueberries.  With all the warm weather, all the berries ripened early and people were picking while I was gone.  It was great to get away, and while I was gone, mom helped to night wean #3, so now I get to sleep through the night!

#1 and #2 displaying a before (#1) and after (#2) eating fresh blueberry pancakes!  It was mandatory payment for leaving them.  Although I'm pretty sure they didn't even notice.

Thanks for Sticking Around! Pt. 1

So, I had no idea that two months have passed since I've updated this thing.  Gosh darn, I was hoping to do so much better!  Well, thanks for sticking with me and checking in, hopefully you didn't waste too much time on me :) 

We've been busy.  Summer has been crazy.  It started with cold and snow, and then moved quickly into bugs and heat.  The mosquitos have diminished over the last couple of months, however, the heat has not.  We have had 33 days this summer with 80+ degree days, a record.  Our house has been hot, and being in Alaska, we don't have an air conditioner....that being said, all the stores up here sold out of their stock, plus additional shipments.  Let's just say it's been so hot the boys sometimes don't want to go outside in the afternoon.  It's like we're living in the south.  We also have had very little rain, like practically nothing; last I heard we had a total of an inch.

In June we celebrated #2's 3rd birthday.  We through a joint bday/#2 and #3 were baptized bbq.  I think everyone had fun.  Ahma came up of course and the boys had a great time.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE having her around, she's an early riser like my kiddos so I get to sleep in a bit without feeling guilty about it. 

 

July Husband and I packed up the boys and headed to "fish camp" down at my parents property to try dip netting.  But first we took the two older boys on the train ride from Anchorage to Seward.  What we learned: a 3 year old will last 45 minutes on the train, while a 4 year old will 2 hours.  It was a 4 four ride.  But we all survived and no one fell off!  We didn't go to camp last year because of how things went two years ago.  I learned quickly that 13 month olds do not belong sleeping in a sleeping bag when night time temps drop to 40F.  So, after that debacle I told my parents I wouldn't be down until the kids were either older, or there was a heated place for us to sleep.  This past winter they came through and bought a toy hauler and we got to use it!!!  It was snug with five of us, #3 in a pack 'n play, but it was SO nice.  It even had air conditioning, and wouldn't you know it, it was in the 80's while we were down there so it came in handy.  The only thing to go wrong was, the fish didn't cooperate and we left with few :(

 

On the caboose!

Aunt Jenny bought chalk for the boys to use.

LOVE this kiddo!

The boys watching a show from the top bunk in the toy hauler.