Alaska Wedding

My sister Diane and her three kids, Linda, Kenny and Jeff.

Ginny and John cutting the camo cake. (Their both in the Airforce.)

"We are family, I got all my sister's with me." (and our mom :)

We had a fabulous time at my great-niece's wedding in Anchorage. My sister Peggy and my mom met the rest of my family, my other sister Diane and all her kids, up there. My niece Linda arranged a great house for us all to stay in so it was just a fun weekend to be with family. We usually only get to catch up in splurts but being together for the weekend we were able to spend lots of time, and considering we are all pretty diverse religiously and politically we did well. And of course Ginny looked beautiful and were just so happy for her. She's a sweet sweet girl, just back from Afganistan, and so deserving of this big day.

50 years ago. I'm on the end on the left, Linda is 3rd from the left, Jill is 2nd from the right.

Today.

I had lunch today with my 2 best friends in Elementary School, Linda and Jilly. It was so much fun to see them. I've seen them off and on throughout the years but mostly off. We've promised to have monthly lunches. It was just really nice to get together and talk about times of such innocence. Like our rebellion in Jr. High against having to wear skirts so a bunch of us girls got together and decided we were going to rebel and wear pants. Except only Linda and I did.....or whenever a new Beatle album came out we would race to Jill's to play it on her record player. We literally grew up together.

Random Pictures

These are just random July pictures of the kids and g-kids. We are so lucky to have them all live so close and see them often. Mia is just starting to want to dress up with Chloe and Scarlett and Luke and Lijah are getting into playing with the trains. Savannah is still just being very sweet. and of course the big guys are solving all the worlds problems outside!

Chloe turns 3

Chloe had her birthday party and she was so excited. Shana is the most excellent cake maker. She baked a castle cake for Chloe because Chloe wanted a princess themed birthday party. It was awesome.

We try to go up to our cabin on Lake Cammanche every July 4th. Last year we took a picture of the grandkids and thought it was so cute, we decided to do it every year as they grew and multiplied. It's just a fun time with the boats and jetskis and food and games. This year we didn't know if we would make it because we had someone there replacing the carpet and kitchen floor and we were not real sure he would be done in time but he was. I have to say I was not sorry to see the old 70's orange and yellow shag carpet go. Our next fix is the railing around the deck as our precious babies can squeeze out. So it is slowly getting baby proofed.

2nd Annual July 4th Grandkids Picture

We added Savannah this year.

More Birthday Pictures