Father's Day campout

The weather forecast called for 90 degrees (unheard of in AK) so we threw together an impromptu Father's Day campout with some of our fav friends.  Both our families got done with the Triathlon, rushed home to throw in all the necessary camping foods and then we drove up to Big Lake to camp with the rest of the valley!  It was busy and HOT!  

 Our kids played in the lake until almost midnight!!!  We kept pinching ourselves to see if this was a dream!  None of us had ever been in an AK lake in June at midnight!

 On Father's Day, we woke up to super hot temps again so we spent the whole day on the lake... tubing, floating, laughing, skiing and soaking up the sun with friends!

 Happy Father's Day dessert on a hot day... popsicles!  We love our dads!

Mother/son TRI

Triathlons are so much more fun on a blue sky day!  Parker and I had a blast completing our 2nd Wasilla Why Not Tri!

  The green machine ready to rock the bike course for the last year on his road bike made by Kep.  Next year, he will be way too tall and hopefully Noah will want to use it!  ha- funny story on Noah!  I was really hoping he would want to participate this year but when I asked him, he replied "Naw, I don't know why you do those things.  It doesn't sound fun."  OK then!

Nice work triathlete Parker!  You're awesome!

Eklutna campout with new friends

We had another beautiful campout at Eklutna.  This is one of our family's fav camping spots so it was fun to share it with our new friends.  All 7 kids had a blast playing in this freezing creek, stacking logs and 

 getting stuck in the silty muck!  I was just about to tell Noah not to walk with his flip flops in the mud but I was a moment too late...

 thanks to dad's determination... the flip was rescued!

 Parker spent the weekend tying knots!  Isaac taught him how to make survival bracelets and that was a hit for Parker!

 Noah and Lucas loved sending the boats down the creek!

Lucas, Parker, Noah, Natalie, Isaac, Savannah + Naomi= entertaining camping!

hiking in snow in JUNE!

We were shocked to find this much snow in June up in Hatchers especially since we were all dressed in shorts!  oops!  We got very wet and muddy but another fun family hike!

Rosco was pumped to roll in the snow again.  He is an all-AKan dog!

last hurrah before the men go FiShInG!