Emily's Confirmation

Emily and her 8th grade comrades were confirmed today, April 13th, 2014

Megan, (Pastor Walla), Ian and Emily

Hello Family! 

It is Hump Day of our Spring Break!

 I thought it was time to do some blog updates...

Hope you are all doing well.

Love you and miss you bunches :)

Emily and her gang at Tanana Honor Roll assembly in January

The cutie in the blue shirt next to Em is Hunter... her beau.

Super Bowl Sunday at a friends house.

This was inside...

This was outside...

Caleb with his (really tall buds) Casey and Wyatt during West Valley Regionals

I was sitting in the stands with the moms of these two boys so we thought the picture was fitting.

West Valley Wins!!! 

Off to State

Cole, Caleb and Casey holding Regional Champ plaque.

Emily's science fair project. It was required for class, but she never actually entered.

Caleb earns "Player of the Game" during High School State Championships!

Way to go, Bub :)

Cow moose in my neighborhood. 

Her two calves were right there as well. 

Always amazing to see.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Green eggs and ham (bacon) with Emily and Morgan

Could you would you with a fox?

Could you would you in a box?

before...

after...

Yay!  no more braces :)

Emily (center) Tanana volleyball team

ready!

The girls feel that they have to "dress up" for game days.

This was game day #1

 Tylen, Emily, Jordyn, Valerie

Morgan's b-day was Saturday and she was going to be in Anchorage for hockey. 

So, Emily and I snuck out of school early Friday so she could surprise her with this when she got out of class. (They go to different middle schools)

Morgan was VERY surprised.

People in the parking lot clapped and cheered when she walked up to the car!

It was great :)

Emily and Kara at Chena Hot Springs for a relaxing overnight.

Ice Park 2014

Emily and Morgan

Caleb, Emily and Morgan

I went back at night to see the sculptures lit up. My phone camera doesn't do them justice. The aurora borealis above the mountains would change color. It was very cool. This one was our favorite.

They're also very tall. This sculpture and the next 2 pictured are all about 20 feet tall.

peacock

fighting dragons on top of castles

ice log cabin

inside was a bed, table and benches - all ice :)

They also build lots of things for the kids. These are the long slides, but they have many short slides too.  The park has about 20 multi-block sculptures (large like the ones pictures) and about 40 single-block sculptures.  I love going to the ice park :)

See you again in a couple of months!

Christmas 2013

Happy New Year... 2014!!

More dance pictures...

Kelly, Katie, Emily, Samarah, Logan, McKayla

The after show party at the Food Factory. 

We've been coming to this restaurant after shows for 2 years now. 

Fun tradition, but our group is so big now it takes hours to get food - the socializing is fun though :)

Christmas Eve...

Air Hockey tournament...

Emily sporting her goods...

Christmas Day we went out to the DuPont's for dinner and games.

The sunset... beautiful :)

The big girls:

Morgan, Emily and Jordan

(Tracy, Tim and Laura in the kitchen)

The big (and only boys)

Caleb and Wyatt

such studs!

The little girls:

Cameron and Reaghan

One more beautiful Christmas Day picture...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone!

I hope you had a great holiday.

Thank you for all the gifts.

MISS YOU AND LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!

SHHHH.....

Kids don't know...

So, Caleb's coach cancelled their Canada trip due to team injuries. He said it was the hardest decision he's ever had to make short of cutting a player. The kids are really bummed, but I know it's for the best, and I'm glad because Caleb is one of the injured - his shoulder. Anyway, my standard response to Caleb when he asks what he's getting for Christmas has always been, "You're going to Canada!"

Now that they're not - he has no gifts!!  So, I jumped at the chance to get this table. It was on sale at Sam's. I know both kids will be thrilled.

Pre Holiday Happiness

Hello everybody! 

I really wish I was better at this and could change my background, but alas, I am not.

Just a few pictures today. I'll post again after the holidays...

This should be the dining room, but I never got a table and the space has been nice for lots of different things. Caleb uses it for stick-handling practice and Emily for front and back walkovers (which are coming along nicely)

Emily's dance company performed at our first annual, downtown Festival of the Trees.

Emily and Samarah pose with freaky snowman dude - he scared the little kids :(

Maybe if he was rounder...?

Aurora Dance Ensamble in the back

(Em is just left of Santa)

Pre-ensamble in the front

These are the pajama pant bottoms that Emily made in Home Ec class this year. 

She received extra credit for wearing them to school on Friday. They are very cute and fit perfectly.

She was the only one who got it because she was the only one who was finished, and yet she has a C in the class... Ugh! Go figure!

Caleb? yes, he still exists! Hockey and school, that's his life. Doing very well in both!

His claim to fame this year, so far, is that he's the only player who's played in every JV and Varsity game. Pretty cool. He really doesn't like to take pictures :)

Love you all!

November

Hello Everyone!  

HAPPY (LATE) HALLOWEEN!!

I was a pumpkin again for our Fall Festival at school.

Emily, Morgan and I braved the Asylum again this year. 

We LOVE to be scared out of our wits! 

Emily wants to work here next year.

Three of the 8 super heros. 

Emily was Thor, Logan was the Black Widow and Madison was Wonder Woman.

Emily and her best buds all made the 4.0 honor roll.

Caleb did too, but I never get pictures of him.

Well, here's one! 

He's doing homework with a little helper.

Emily wants this for Christmas :)

Our first snow day off of school, Emily decorates her room.

You've been doing homework long enough...

time to PET ME!!!

The church parking lot has all of it's snow piled up right outside our apartment... instant snow hill!!

Emily's dance studio did a promo at Barnes and Nobel. 

A portion of all proceeds that day went to the studio.

The girls (and one guy) danced 8 pieces 5 times over a 4 hour period.

I only have a few pictures of one of the dances because she has been practicing these lifts for the past 6 weeks.  They will do all of these dances at a regular performance in 2 weeks.

The Arctic Winter Games will be held in Fairbanks next March. It's kind of a mini-alternative-olympics. Cities and towns in and around the arctic circle all around the globe participate. The events are very winter friendly and native related.

Caleb is trying out for the hockey team. He will know if he made it on December 1st.

I'll keep you posted.

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!

Love, hugs and kisses!