My sincerest apologies

I apologize.

For the sheer length of this post. I mean, what is happening! I had quite a few people tell me that they wanted to see more photos of the great Alaskan get-away, but I took it there...went 50 feet further, around a corner and through a tunnel. I kept editing and editing and when I was uploading I couldn't believe I threw down over 30 images.

Sickening, right? Bored yet?

So, if you're so over Alaska and all things winter, feel free to skip this post. I'll get things back to normal next week. But for now....

...let's see...Oh, yes. We left off in Seward. Which I love. Much.

Here's the main street with Marathon Mountain in the background

(Haha...I was roaming around town taking photos while the boys were waiting to be picked up about 5 miles away...whoops!)

I also hit up the Alaska Sealife Center...awwwww....

This guy was totally flirting with me. I could tell. He just kept swimming in front of me and coming back...twirling...I liked him. I named him Simon.

Got lost and ended up in a cargo loading area. Driving Paul. I'm sure nobody saw me.

leaving Seward, headed back to Anchorage

ARCTIC MAN!!!!!!

and a wipe out...ouch...

The skiers would basically disappear off the top of the hill and reappear WAY down at the bottom as a little tiny speck. Insane speed.

Over 7,000 people bring their sleds to the middle of nowhere for this competition and to ride.

and this is how we made our morning coffee. In Paul. Did I get a photo of our living arrangements for the weekend? No?! Why would I? Honestly...pathetic...

Ricky got stuck.

Playing around

Bummer-blew out a tire on the way from Valdez back to Anchorage. Oddly enough, we were driving right by a bicyclist when it happened. It was super loud, poor biker...that's what you get for exercising! ;-)

We came back from Arctic Man Sunday and Nick and I had all day Monday to roam around and do whatever. We decided to drive to Whitter so I could drive through the train/traffic tunnel (Nick did it two years ago when he visited).

Ricky had an awesome ride for us to take for the day: meet The Bruiser.

Mr. Nick had to check the oil at nearly every stop.

Epic.

Every 15 minutes traffic is stopped so a train can go through the tunnel. On the half hour, traffic flows one way, on the hour, traffic flows the other.
A two mile long tunnel through a mountain for all road travel to Whitter...

A hospital that was built for use in WWII but was never actually used.

Checking the oil

I likes.

Back for our last night!

Where I got SO CLOSE to a baby moose-on our last day. How lucky was that!!!!

Yay---what a great trip!!!!!

Comfort

It's the place you turned to first when you had a bad dream. It was warm, inviting and always held the scent of sleep and comfort. The place you'd want to play while mom was putting laundry away and the place where it seemed like you could jump and touch the sky. Where books were read, cuddles were an everyday occurance and there was no such thing as an alarm clock.

A place where only good dreams slip into your mind and all the worlds troubles seem to fade away.

Laughter and giggles, happy thoughts and warm fuzzies.

It's your parents bed.

And introducing little Jack!!!

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The hat is hand crafted by Jen at Angel Wear by Jen

Seriously, how cute is it!?

The girls posed themselves for this shot-I honestly had nothing to do with it.

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Just Jack.

Both the hat and the cuddle bag were hand knit with much love by my Nana (Jack's Nana-Great).

And, yes, I'll eventually be getting more Alaska photos up here!!!! Soon soon, I promise promise!

Into the swing of things

We're back!

:-)

The grass is green, the trees are budding, I was able to pull out and dust off the flips this afternoon--life is good. I have many images to sort though from the last leg of our trip, so I'll pause on that for now and give you a little bit of this guy instead...

T•R•O•U•B•L•E

Levy was so sweet-he says way more words-per-day than most kids I know that age. And he warms up pretty quickly, too! Now if only I could figure out a stealthy way to nab the Goldfish... ;-)

Honestly. How. Cute.

This one makes me smile...

And this one makes me laugh. If there ever was a perfect family portrait, to me, this is it. Love the imperfect perfections.