Christmas Lights

Oh the wonder of Christmas lights to a 17 and a half month old!!! He is thoroughly enjoying all of our Christmas decorations! The tree is especially tempting though and he just cannot grasp that all of the pretty balls on the tree are not for him and his enjoyment. Such a fun age though and we are just SO excited for Christmas morning! It is going to be wonderful! :)


What a wonderful little face! :)

Barometer Mountain

I thought i'd give you a look at the mountain that Josh and Brandon climbed back in July 2010. Not too long after Zion was born, Brandon and Josh decided to climb this mountain. They said they'd be back in a couple of hours...

4 hours later I got a call... that they had just made it to the TOP! Needless to say it was a bit more intense than they had realized! If you ask either of them about Barometer, to this day they will shudder. Apparently it was quite intense at some points and they questioned why they were doing this! (I am so glad I didn't know that!) They said it was like a goat trail that just goes straight up that ridge on the left. Literally straight up. So, as were were driving past Barometer recently for the thousandth time, I realized what an accomplishment that was for them! Good job Brandon and Josh for tackling this 2500 ft Alaskan Beast! :)

Here is a pic from a couple of days ago..

Here is a picture from out of Zion's bedroom window when they were actually at the top!!! :)

(the trail is that ridge that you're seeing in the middle)

And then on a random sidenote: As I was dropping off mail the other day I thought this was a great look at island living. (Probably just because I am weird.) But everything is just broken down into On Island and Off Island! :) Not just the mail, but EVERYTHING about living here is either ON island or OFF and down in the "lower 48". I dunno. I liked the picture. :) Hope you do too and I'm not too crazy!

Lol. Sitting on mommy is such fun! :)
He loves to give kisses!!! Is this not the sweetest little face EVER!?!?!? :)

Riding his puppy like a big boy.

Some Snow & Grammy's Visit

Zion and Rascal watching me take pictures out the slider door. :)

AND the picture I took outside our sliding glass door. :) So pretty. This was the sunrise... at like 9:45am. I am so blessed to be able to capture this off of my back porch! Wow! Thank you Lord!

YaY!
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Zion LOVED Grammy feeding him her blueberry pie! :)
Having a cup on your head is serious business! :)

While my mom was here we actually had record snowfall and a blizzard! If we get 3 more inches of snow by Thursday(which should be no problem), then Kodiak will break the record amount of snowfall for November that was set in 1970! Wowza! And it made for some great visiting time! I loved having that much time with my Momma! :) We greatly enjoyed cooking Thanksgiving together (we actually did it twice, because we just couldn't wait!) and Brandon and Zion greatly enjoyed our cooking! lol. While Grammy was here we also played lots of board games, sewed a bit, cleaned and organized in preparation for the move, painted the living room and bathroom, laughed alot and had a blast with Zion! It was wonderful! God is so good and really knows the desires of our heart. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We are so thankful for all of the MANY ways which God has and is providing for us! We are also so grateful for all of our wonderful family and friends that God has blessed us with! May you each be immensely blessed this CHRISTmas season! Love ya!

Random Acts of Zion

Silly boy loves my toes. hehe.
Food time!
He LOVES book time!!!


Zion LOVES playing at the park across from our house! Here are just a few shots of him enjoying his new-found freedom. Sadly, right after he discovered how much he LOVED it over there, winter really set in... but oh well, we'll hope for a couple of nice days sometime during our Kodiak winter! :) I think throwing the rocks is his favorite... what a boy. :)

Climbing!
"ooooooo...."
So serious!
On a side note... I hate Croup! Zion woke up in the middle of the night with it. :( He is fine, but it is so scary to hear your child struggling to breath. Thank fully I knew what to do since he had this once before in AZ when he was 10 months old. It was a crisp COLD night last night and perfect for taking him out at 3am and opening up his airway. Odd, but it sure works. He is such a sweetheart. Even when he was coughing that awful stridder cough, he was still smiling at us with confused eyes. Okie dokie. Just thought I'd throw that in there. Praise God he is feeling much better!

OH! And Grammy is coming tomorrow!!! Woohoo!!! (My mom!!!) :) Yay! Can't wait to pick her up on the Era flight tomorrow afternoon! :) She will make everything all better. :)

Trip to the Anchorage Zoo

We recently went over to Anchorage for Brandon's Fitness test for Customs and had the opportunity to take Zion to the ZOO! We almost didn't go because it was pretty chilly out, but we are SO glad we did! It was fantastic!!! (And the snow held off until after we came out of the gift shop at the end!) :) I'm sure you can tell in these pictures what an amazing time Zion (and Mommy and Daddy) had at the zoo! Enjoy these awesome animals that our God created!An Oomingmak... :) It was surprisingly short. It's about 3 feet tall... weird huh?

So majestic!
A Camel made for cold weather... I forgot the name... but very interesting!


Cool looking fox!An awesome WHITE Polar Bear! I think most of the polar bears I've seen have been green! :) Do you know why? ~*This is one of my favorite random facts! :) *~ Because they have hollow hair(not white) and algae can grow in there easily. Cool huh? Anyways, this was a true Alaskan Beauty.
LOVING the Zoo!I don't know why I found this FAT porcupine SO funny. But I did. It makes me laugh out loud just looking at this picture! :) It was so fat it couldn't fit inside of it's little house! :)
We had SUCH a wonderful time at the Anchorage Zoo! Zion was completely in his element the cold watching animals!
Zion and Daddy had SUCH a wonderful time watching all the animals!!! :) I love this picture!

Our Little Skunk

Yup, Zion was a little stinker for our church harvest festival! :) What a cutie patootie he is!!!