The Time Has Come

The time has come to let the blogging world know the big news from our little corner of the world. We are expecting little Baby Robbins somewhere around Jan. 10th. This is a picture from the first ultrasound on June 7th, so he/she has grown quite a bit since then(about the size of a lemon now). The next ultrasound is scheduled for July 29th, so soon I will have a more up to date picture to share.

Clamming!

Here's the crew!

Sarah going after the kill!

John and Donny surveying the land

The happy clammer

Our catch

It's hard to see, but there were about 23 bald eagles perched on this cliff waiting for the fish guts to be dropped off by fishermen (hint: look for any speck of white).

Beautiful Mt. Redoubt

Memorial Day Weekend

On Memorial Day Weekend, we went to our neighbor, Mike's cabin. And for those of you who have heard of him, yes this is famous Mike. The one who plows our drive-way in the winter, the one who brings us loads of dirt for the backyard and then actually takes the time to transport the dirt to the backyard when John was gone, the one who will really do anything for you! Yes, it's that Mike!

Here we are taking the boat out to his cabin which is on an island in the middle of a pretty big lake! And that's Mike with the yellow rain hat on, he's quite a character!

Coming to shore...

Relaxing in the hammock

Enjoying a lovely BBQ with the other "islanders!" That's Mike sitting next to me.

And of course, beautiful Alaska!

after much silence...

I have dedicated these next few days to getting caught up on the blogging.

So here is a picture of my class on the one of the last days of school. I think it turned out pretty good, when your trying to get 23 faces to all look the same direction and smile at the same time!

Of course we had to do a silly one too!

A Monumental Day

Today is a monumental day. The sun has been shining since I woke up at 7:00 this morning and it has continued to shine without a hint of clouds. The snow tires are finally coming off. And you don't need a coat when you go outside! The irises are poking through the ground and the lilac bushes are beginning to bud. Yes, a very special day indeed!

April?? Are you sure?

Because, really, when you look outside and see THIS, you really just can't believe that it's April. Yes, I woke up this morning to 3 inches of fresh snow, not to mention the 2 feet of snow that was doing a pretty good job of melting until today! And then the falling snow preceded to continue through this afternoon and has finally stopped at about 7:30 pm! I don't really think it's the long dark days of Alaska that are depressing, it's the fact that sometimes you really feel like you live in Forever Winter.

St. Patrick's Day

Is it bad when one of your students is wearing the same shirt as you? What it's one of your little boys?

Yes, this did happen last week! Back in February I bought a shirt to wear for St. Patrick's Day. And yes, it may or may not have been in the boys section. So on Wednesday, one of my little boys comes walking in with the same shirt!

Hope you can get a little laugh out of this!