May

In May, Mason graduated kindergarten.

He got to hold a walrus skull at the Matanuska Glacier.
Then Christina's parents came to visit and we took them around quite a bit of southcentral Alaska.
portage lake
kenai river
matanuska glacier

april/may

In April we finished a couple of house projects - bannister and the boys closet.




Therefore, in May I took a trip for pike.

In march, as previously noted, we went to the ice festival. I managed a fishing trip to the kenai (questionable sanity) - on the way we drove past sea ice up on the bank and floated a few miles of the kenai river in a canoe, with a bike as a shuttle vehicle. Cold, but good, day on the water with Lior.




Tate enjoyed an Easter egg hunt.


We also went to the scout-o-rama and christina got to try out an old fashioned ferris wheel. Then Mason tried out a new haircut, or maybe it was a look into the future.

how do you get back into blogging?

Buy a phone that will do it for you.

I'll try and backdate a few highlights of the last seven or eight months. For now, we went skating last week.

fathers and sons

A foot of slushy, melting snow ruined our camping plans - so we crashed in a cabin.

Kid looks just like his mom, doesn't he?

I need a nap.

Planting Time

We still have some snow in the yard, and it freezes hard every night, but we have got to have starts ready to go once it is warm enough. Here is Mason getting some sun with the flats.


Tying flies is another summer preparation. Mason is trying to tie any pattern that will possibly catch a king salmon, using all the flourescent materials we've got.


Tate has been into making faces...


...and walking around the house with swim googles on.

Spring Break! in Fairbanks? hmmm

A couple of weeks late we bring you photos from Mason's spring break and our family trip to Fairbanks, the golden heart city. When we were kids, we usually went somewhere warm for spring break, i.e. St. George or California. Fairbanks is known for being really cold in the winter, and, well, not much else.
We visited Ice Alaska, the world championships of ice sculpting. Enjoy.