Welcome Fall



Hatcher's Pass family camp out, September 2011




Woke up with frost everywhere and happy as can be!




The Fireweed has turned brilliant red.





Harvest moon, it was as bright as bright could be in the middle of the night.





Off to hike up to Reed's Lakes, early in the morning





Fireweed





Starting the climb up the boulders





Cai crossing the river by jumping over the rocks





Gathered and ate lots of blueberries.



Cai and I lasted only six miles.  He hiked four of them by himself.



We didn't make it all the way up to Reed's Lakes, but had a beautiful time trying.

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The End of Summer Fun

In front of the Tlingit clan-house at the Alaskan Native Heritage Center

Jarad and Cai stretching out between two whale bones

Fun at the Alaska State Fair...Cai was so excited when he returned home, "I rode on a helicopter!"

785 pounds of pumpkin and our pie

Things grow, big, really big here with all the sunlight in the summer

Of course, Jarad took pictures of some of my favorite things to see...

Cai's favorite show at the State Fair- The Chinese Acrobats

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Summer Fun

Lake Eklutna

sunny picnic and cool trees

musk ox

balancing act

winner creek, girdwood

lots of slippery snow

that melted by the time mom and dad returned home

hottie with his plane

"freight done right!"

inside of the B737

moving a car

"Cai's King Air."  he tells us what he owns all the time

midnight hike

susitna, "sleeping lady"

Point Warenzoff

Jarad first purposed here

the ring didn't fit

so he

sized it,

purposed the second time

up in the Chugach mountains

on a hike

susitna

around 12:30a.m.

midnight sun

view from the cockpit

top of the world

barrow, alaska

around 3:00a.m.

alaska railroad

kenai mountains backdrop 

Cai and I went birding at Potter's Marsh

he was more interested in the little spider's webs

hiking buddies

cai was also more interested in mowing the grass by hand

firecracker flowers

After birding, we visited the temple, talking and walking

around the sacred grounds

on June 4~ Flower Festival

southern view of anchorage

the temple's up the road,

but you can't see it from here

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