On top of the world!!!

Our BEAUTIFUL Kodiak, Alaska!!!

More Birthday pics! :)

Just a few more birthday pics!!

Don't mind the hair! :)


Some lovely decorations!!!

And my BEAR!!!
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WoW! 22 is OLD...

...Just Kidding!!!

My birthday bear!!!
My babies!!!! (she's getting SO big!!!)
My special card that he picked out!!!
Yay!!!... A vanilla cupcake yankee candle, that he picked out ALL by his self!!!
My amazing hubby!!!... And his OLDER wife... lol!!!

I had a wonderful, wonderful birthday yesterday! Thank you so much to everyone who wished

me a HAppy happy Birthday! And a special THANK YOU to my hubby! I just have to brag on him

a bit. He is amazing! He worked hard yesterday to make my day very special! Yay! He even baked

me a cake!!! And a tasty cake at that! He decorated the house and wrapped and hid a bunch of

presents around the house and EVEN wrapped up our front door in cool birthday paper!!! I'm SO

blessed! :) Also, some of my wonderful Kodiak girlies took me to lunch at the Powerhouse and we

too had a wonderful special afternoon eating chocolate and window shopping! They also convinced

me to eat my very first SUSHI!!! Ahhh! BUT, I actually kinda liked it! Never thought I'd say that,

but I did!!! I even especially liked the little yellow fish eggs that it was rolled in!Yuck, but kinda Yummy!

Not sure that I'll order it ALOT, but I did try it! I continue to surprise myself! :) Again, I'm SO

VERY blessed to be surrounded with such wonderful people!!! After I opened some presents,

Brandon took me on a bear hunt! (LOL, we go looking for bears basically every week, but we

never see anything!) We drove around for an hour and didn't see anything, but right before we

got home...THERE HE WAS! Just a little guy looking for some salmon, but we saw him!!! Yay!

It was a special birthday treat!! My first Kodiak Bear sighting!!! :) I ended the day with my

favorite ice cream EVER and some yummy cake! Well, I'll update with more later. We are going

halibut fishing tomorrow and we also have a Brandon Heath concert tomorrow night! The island is

very excited that he is coming to Kodiak!!! Another special treat!!! Oh! I forgot to say what Brandon

got me! He over did it a bit, lol, but I got: some Bath & Body works lotion and soap, 2 C.G. tee shirts,

a Yankee Candle, a cool bucket thingy that matches my kitchen, some candy and gum, the new Wii

Sports Resort (which I'm a bit upset about b/c that's what I was getting HIM for HIS b-day),

and a very special little mirror plaque thing that is very special. I will post a pic sometime.

Yup, yup. So my husband really spoiled me! I married a very special guy! :) Ok, I will try to be updating

more often. So sorry! Love you all!!!

~Cortney, Brandon, Rascal & Lucy!

HALIBUT!!!

Josh's fish... aka Flappy! Ty's fish! Sweet! All the fish we kept!

Yummy! :)

Brandon kissing his yummy little one! lol!

Tyler enjoying whacking it! ...I guess you have to do that, and all the boys really enjoyed that! lol!

The Skipper and his Navigator! Fun stuff!

WoW! We had such an amazing time on our first Halibut fishing adventure!!! The Lord blessed us and we now have 30 lbs of yummy halibut fillets in our freezer!!! The boys all caught a halibut and I caught a couple of cod and lots of some ugly bass thing. Josh and Tyler caught BIG ones! It was SO fun! They had a great fight pulling them up from about 200 feet down under! Halibut is a pretty ugly, bottom of the ocean fish and both of it's eyes are on the top of it's body; they have pure white underbellies so when you're pulling them up all of a sudden you get a glimps of this big white/silver fish down there... it was awesome!!! Josh's was like 50-60 lbs and Ty's was like 40! SO fun! I got video of Josh pulling it up, which I hope to post later here! So fun! Yup yup! Hope to have everyone up here to catch halibut soon! We took out one of Brandon's rental boats and it was absolutely perfect!!! Lucy even came with and enjoyed sleeping in the Captains seat the majority of the trip! We had made fresh halibut fish 'n' chips the night before we went out fishing and it really wet our whistles to catch lots more for ourselves! :) Now we have a freezer full! Yay! Seriously, it was SO MUCH FUN! :) Yup yup, so PLEASE come and visit so you can experience this for yourselves! It is so worth it! And this was only our first time, so we'll see what we get next time! :) God bless you and thanks for checking out the blog! xoxoxo

The Boys are coming, the boys are coming!

YAY! Just wanted to post on here that my brothers will be flying in to Kodiak tomorrow morning!!! WOW! They will be staying until July 16(!) so they will really be able to experience all that Kodiak has to offer! Tyler and Josh really feel that God has called them here for this time and that He has some great ministry opportunites in store for them here! They will be leaving this afternoon and will not be arriving here on the Island until tomorrow morning, so their adventure will begin with an overnighter in the Anchorage airport! How fun! We are all really excited! So if you could pray 1.) for great weather and safe travels and 2.) for my Momma as she has never been without all three of her children for such an extended period of time and 3.) that God will use them as missionaries while they are here! Thank you all! We love you and can't wait to hear from you! Feel free to either call, write, or email anytime! (lol, that sounds like a commercial) But yup, we really would like to hear from you! Ok, xoxoxo! (And Bryana and Britny: we're praying that you guys will be able to do this next summer!) Will post more when they arrive safely! God Bless each and every one of you today!!!

She is tired out!!!

SOOOOO CUTE!!!

Introducing... Miss Lucille Ball!!! AHH!

We got a puppy!!! I've never had a puppy!!!! AhhhH!! Our friends Jenny and Ty had puppies about 10 weeks ago(well they didn't, but their dogs did, lol) about the time that we got here, and we've been admiring them, but recently we've just felt that God opened up the doors and said, "ok, go get her!!!" YAY! So this is Miss Lucille Ball!!! I LOVE our Lucy! She is just adorable! The perfect little puppy and we are IN LOVE! She is a Cocker Spaniel! Aww... and Rascal LOVES her! YAY! An answer to prayer for sure! Ok, well we're gonna go play with her some more!!! Yay! Thanks for looking! Love ya'll! xoxo ~Cortney, Brandon, Rascal, AND Lucy!!!