Summa Summa

I have lived in Alaska for 7 years now. I don't think I have ever experienced an 80 degree day. Living in Alaska we learn to wear long johns all year long. We have now experienced the longest winter (this winter) and the winter with the most snow (last winter). Mother nature has finally decided that Alaskans need a break and we have been granted 10 days of straight sunshine. The first weekend we explored portage valley which is about an hour south of Anchorage. We went down for a day trip to walk around and break the backpack in. It was fun, beautiful, and best of all I got to eat Yam fries at our friendly hippie restaurant. I can't wait to take Lisa there.

The following weekend we finally we able to take the camper out. We went to Glen Allen, Alaska which is about 4 hours north west of Anchorage. It's a long, but beautiful drive and we are usually rewarded with a ton of fish. The fish were late this year and we were skunked BUT we had the most glorious weather. 85 degrees all three days. I sat outside the camper and ate Popsicles!!  We had a great fathers day too.

Bronson was a pretty good camper. He ate A LOT of dirt. Now that he has finally decided to put things in his mouth he thinks rocks and sticks and clumps of dirt are fair game. What ever floats his boat!!!  The only part that he wasn't that great at was sleeping. I don't think he understood why he was sleeping in this tiny pack-n-play when it obviously still daylight and his parents were two feet away from him. For all family coming up....bring some awesome ear plugs if you want to sleep in the camper with us.

We are anxious to get out the next two weekends. Then family arrives. July will be busy for us. Kreighton, Lisa, and Jameson arrive July 1-9, My best friend that moved to billings is coming with Bronson's girlfriend, Aubrey, then my sister will be here July 25- Aug 1 and then Ken, Karole, and Charlotte will be here sometime in August. I can only hope this weather can hold and people can experience this with us.

I keep trying to convince Aunt Kristi to just take a detour north on her way to Idaho......

Idaho

Well if you have facebook you have seen most of the pictures from the idaho excursion. It was quite fun.

We had a few firsts on this trip. This was my first solo flight with Bronson. He did pretty darn good. He slept for 1.5/3 hours and was able to be entertained. He was quite enthralled while I was holding him and taking the pulse of the lady behind me who passed out. Did you know that for good Samaritans they give you 8000 thousand free airline miles. I wish more people would pass out.

We stayed several days at my dads where Bronson got to spend some quality time with his Aunt and uncles. I must say I was pretty impressed with how well Konnor played with him.

I then went to my moms. I saw a ton of people. Bronson saw his first parade with logging trucks dn Tractors. Unfortunately, the next day I got stricken with the norovirus. I spent the next 48 hours trying to recuperate from puking. Needless to say, i didn't get to check off my boxes of things I wanted to do. My mom, however, got some good quality time with Bronson as I lay on my death bed.

The climax of the trip was our family BBQ. IT was great So many people turned out, more than expected. Thanks to all my family members who made the trip to sandpoint.
Bronson conquered stairs. We don't have stairs at our house in Alaska so this was the first time he had seen any. He went right up. Going down still needs some work.
bronson also learned to point.

Overall we had such a great time. Bronson and Kris never got sick (my dad, keegan, aunt les and cousin evan are a different story).

Aunt Kelsey

Uncles Keegan and Konnor

Got to meet upw ith my sorority sisters and their babies