Alternative Energy - Pickens Plan

It's time the U.S. looks into more natural, reliable and less volatile power resources. Pickens has a lot of good ideas. Please check out this web site: www.pickensplan.com and see for yourself what alternatives are available!

Connor's 1st Birthday

Well, it rained on the Saturday we decided to celebrate Connor's Birthday. Ugh. We were hoping for a nice day so we could do a BBQ and let the kids play outside. Oh well, should have been more pessimistic - we live in Juneau after all!

Ok, so on to more exciting things - Connor and opening his gifts - I think he was more in a state of shock and overwhelmed with all that was going on, so Michael Jr. helped out!

I left picture taking to Mike, and he got a lot of 'head' shots and they were a bit fuzzy, so here's the best of the worst pictures :) (Sorry sweetie! We've got to work on your picture taking skills.)

A few pictures I took on Connor's actual birthday opening up a gift from Grammie and Oompa (Mike's parents). Of course, Jr. always has to help out, so it was more like Jr. opening Connor's present for him.

I had a lot of fun making Connor's 1st Birthday Cake. It was a very HEALTHY cake. It came from the 'Super Baby Food' cook book. I highly recommend it! I will post the recipe separately.

In Loving Memory of Mary Angeline Long

Grandma Angie passed away last night at 12:30AM in Seattle with loved ones surrounding her. We are all greatly saddened with her passing, but know that she is no longer suffering.

Visiting with Alex

My brother Alex came down from Anchorage to visit this week, it was really good to see him. Here's a few pictures of us and the kids.

Mud Puddles, Rain Boots and Bare Bottoms

The other day we were over at my friend Jenny's. Her son, Landon, is just a year older than Michael and we get together often to let the kids play. On this particular day the kids were out playing and Michael decided to take a bath in a mud puddle. It was at first just throwing rocks and stomping, then it turned into a mud puddle bath. Jenny grabbed her camera and took quite a few pictures. He must have played in there for at least 30 minutes, if not more. I had to give him a shower at Jenny's before we went home. I hope you enjoy these pictures and much as I enjoyed watching Michael in action.