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!!!

Beautiful Kodiak Island!!!

Hello!!!

Yesterday was Brandon's day off and we were blessed to have the opportunity to drive out to the edge of our new home! It is about an hour and a half from where we live to the end of the road! It is called Pasagshack and it is absolutely beautiful! Pictures DO NOT do it justice!

Here are just a few... but cannot wait for ya'll to come and see for yourselves! We are excited to go back when it is all green! It is just starting to turn green now. Yup yup. There are buffalo out there also!!! Weird, but very cool! :) And here is a far away of a bald eagle. They are EVERYWHERE! Yup, beautiful! Ok, well, off to the shoulder docter I go! I hurt it at work the other day, and they thought I tore the rotater cuff...but i'm claiming healing and that's that! :) We are doing really good though... sorry I haven't posted more but thanks so much for checking in! We love you and just call whenever :) !!! xoxo

~Cortney, Brandon, and Rascal

A Bit of our Ferry Ride!

Here's a little bit of our ferry journey! I took SO many pictures, it's hard to pic just a few! But enjoy! My Hubby just taking a peek!

Awww......

Beautiful view from our balcony!

Our boat! Our room was right in the middle there where it's docked up. You can kinda see the balcony area there and we were the last room to the left! Very cool! We were on the Columbia and the Tustamina! Fun stuff!!!

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Our HOME!!!! Yay! This was right after we had just picked this as our HOME! Yay! We are SO blessed to have gotten this AmAzInG Home! It is just adorable and feels like it was made just for us! Yay! Yup, so where that spiffy little upstairs window is, that's my laundry room! And the window downstairs is my window seat in the kitchen! VERY cool! And I don't know what kind of plants those are out from, but they're starting to get lots of blossoms! Yay! :) This is our backyard view! It is MUCH prettier in person! I'll post better pics later, bc it really is an amazing view!!! OH! And BTW, this picture was taken around 11 o'clock.........AT NIGHT!!!!! Lol! Yup, it is REALLY crazy here... but we're enjoying the REALLY long days. I TRULY have not seen a night sky yet...no stars, nothing. It's light when we go to bed at midnight and light when we wake up at 5! CRAZY!!! Truly the land of the midnight sun!!!
This was at the ferry stop in Ketchican, AK. I just like the pic! :) Rascal was being a bit shy! :)
This is just a BIT of the gorgeous scenery we were able to see coming across Alaska and the Yukon territory!!!

Much more to come later! Sorry! Thanks for checking in with us!!! We are both enjoying our jobs! Brandon is LOVING being a Petty Officer!!! Yay for being in charge! Yup, we're keeping very busy! Our belongings have gotten lost along the way somehow...But hopefully they'll be found and arrive here in Kodiak soon! Yup yup! We are blessed beyond measure here and thank you all for the good weather prayers! It has been AMAZING here weather wise and know it's just another blessing from HIM! :) Ok, well off to fold some laundry!