I Love My Kids

Our children they mean the world to Aaron and I. We are so blessed to have healthy children. We pray everyday that they stay healthy. They are wonderful. Cali is 7 and is an great big sister she helps get me diapers and wipes. The other day I let her change heer first real baby diaper and did great. Even with Adalee moving everywhere. Tre is an awesome big brother he protects both Cali and Adalee. He hates it when Addie cries which isn't very often but he trys so to keep her happy. Adalee loves Tre where ever he is she looks for and laughs. Last our miricle baby is the best baby ever and so cute. Tre is 9 and getting too old he join his 4th grade bball team, so excited to start that. He is so small I hope he grows one day. Thank you God for my children and please lets us be together forever to enjoy each other as a family.

Our Hungry Hippo

Little Adalee growing up too fast she is 5 months and six months old in these pictures enjoying sitting in her high chair with the family at the table. She is eating oatmeal and famila for breakfast then for luch she has a jar of fruit and meat or veggie and same for dinner. She already drinks out of her sippy cup and can hold it and drink from it by herself. She trys to eat with holding the spoon, so independent for such a young girls. Mom and Dad have to fight the fingers though she will take a couple bites and then shove her two fingers or as we call them her pacifer into her mouth so then we have to pull them out and then feed her more bites. All kids are different with their eating habits including her. She loves to eat teething biscuits. What a cute little girl we love her too much.

SALMON EGG RETRIEVE

SALMON FIELD TRIP AT SPRING CREEK IN PALMER ALASKA
Tre's 4th grade class does a huge unit on Alaska this year. They start off by learning the life cycle of salmon, the types of salmon, and much more. On this cold fall morning October 6th we went to a small creek in Palmer where the salmon return to lay their eggs and die. The kids got to open a salmon and retrieve the red salmon eggs and then they got a male salmon and milt comes out of him to fertilize the eggs then the fish and game lady dumps the pitcher in the water and 3000 salmon eggs are fertilized. Then the 4th grade class from Tre's school takes them back and puts them in a giant fish tank, they have to keep the tank at a certain temp, and it get insulated with blue board to keep it dark and warm. By spring these salmon eggs will grow into baby salmon and Tre's class will release them into a river. This was a pretty cool field trip.
Here is Tre with the girl in the back is one he thinks is cute her name is Bailey.
Tre holding one of the male salmons.

The eggs are coming out of a female salmon just by cutting open its belly.
Tre's 4th Grade class his friend Michael is on the left and friend Reed on the right.

State Fair 2009 Continued

Well here are some more pictures of the state fair, The first show we went to was a logger show where to logger do races cutting wood with hand saws, chain saws, axe throwing and even where the balance on the log in the water and try to beat the other person by staying on the longest. Pretty entertaining. The next show was the pig races not the same as at the La Grande fair but somewhat the pigs are pigger and the track is bigger. The kids rode rides and then when we were walking Tre found a whole booklet of 20 tickets so we went back over and rode some more rides. We went into a reptile exhibit Tre and Cali in the pictures are petting a tortise and in the tankl swimming is a snapper turtle. They had snakes, lizards, alligators and more. It was pretty cool. Then we saw some animals the little piglets were only days old, it reminded me of my little piglet eating dinner at home on good old mom. Then we saw this billy goat and we laughed alot because it reminded Aaron and I of Justin's old goat tee. Remember how long his grew to be, well here is his twin. To end our day at the fair we got huge elephant ears and sat down and listen to some native alaskan (eskimo) dancing, and then a local family band came on stage. Little Adalee such a trooper, not one cry out of her and we were there for 8 hours.

The State Fair 09

Well we all did the last fun outting of the summer but in Alaska it actually takes place in the fall because August up here is the start of Fall. We attended the state fair. This year at the fair there was a world record set with the largest cabbage the last one this big was back in 1989 in the united kingdom someone had a cabbage 124 lbs. The cabbage weighs 125 lbs then the same farmer brought in another cabbage from his farm it weighed 127 lbs. The other world record was a rutabaga which was 82 lbs. They grow them big in Alaska. It is because this summer was so sunny and warm. The kids had fun we did rides, ate nachos, and went into a cool lizard and reptile exhibit.