The 4th's closing festivities

For the last few years we have gone to our friends James and Laura's house after watching the parade. We had an amazing lunch and hung out the rest of the day with them. Quent did leave a few times times to watch some of the festivities in town. Unfortunately (or is it 'fortunately'? Hmm...), there are no pictures of the fireworks this year. But Ryan took some amazing pictures of the fireworks. (P.S. In the past few years when there has been a fireworks show, Quent had his finger on the camer trigger pretty much the whole time. I would tease him about how he watched the fireworks through the camera. Instead we enjoyed little Ander and Clara oohing and ahhing at the fireworks display. Ander was SO excited! Before the show even started he kept on saying, "Waiting...waiting...")

James and Laura's daughter, Clara, eating watermelon. Such a darling!

Quent went tubing (sp?) out in the ocean. This isn't a picture of him, but of someone else falling off the tube. Looks cold!

July 3rd

We are behind on posting...again. Quent has lots of pictures to post of some short trips he went on, but it may be awhile before he gets to those. So these are out of order.

Here are a few of the pictures I took on July 3rd. It was the day of the Scrapfish Derby for the kids in Wrangell. It was a beautiful day!

A crowd: not something you see on a typical day in Wrangell. The kids were waiting to see who won the prizes.

I saw this boat. It's not the correct spelling for my name, but I thought it was neat.

Bike Part 1

My dad custom-built this bike for me. I LOVE the orange color, the feel of the bike, everything is perfect! I want to take some more pictures of it for his website, but I'm waiting for an evening with some really pretty evening light. Until then these are some pictures Quent took of it shortly after I got the bike.

Bike Part 2

Visitor

Quent's brother's friend Ross was in Wrangell working with the medical clinic. He is studying to be a general surgeon. We had him over for dinner a couple of times and Quent spent some time hiking with him. Here are some pictures from their hike.

Happy 7 years!

On June 1st we celebrated our 7th year anniversary.


A heart-shaped cake made from scratch with some coconut frosting. Yum!

I think this picture Quent took of the dandelion is so cool! So creative!

Sunday Drive

We drove around and showed Callie some of the sites.


Ok, where are we?

Christina and Callie

Picnic

One beautiful evening (I believe it was May 31st) we drove out the road to the Thom's Lake trail with Callie. She is the young lady renting a room from us who works for Crossings. She became part of our family and we really enjoyed her company.


Callie and Christina walking on the trail to the lake.

Here we are enjoying a picnic dinner. I think it was brats, vegs & dip, and grapes. Oh, there were some cookies, too.

Keep trying, Quent!

Cross Bill

This is a red Cross Bill that was on our feeder in early June. What a beautiful bird! They must have migrated farther north for the summer.

Softball

Quent has played softball for about 6 years now. He played on a team in Wisconsin and now here in Wrangell. He was the team manager for two years, but not this year since we are moving. Go Forest Service team!

Tigger & Bike

My dad built me a bike! A custom made bike! And I LOVE it!! It's orange and sparkly and feels wonderful to ride!! Check out what he does here! There are more pictures to post soon, but Quent has to edit them first.

Licking Yogurt

Whenever I eat yogurt the kitties come. Tigger especially likes it! He licked the container out afterwards and got some yogurt on his nose. So cute!

Playing in the Sprinkler

These were taken on June 6th. We had some beautiful weather!!! It was SO nice!! I went with my friend Joy and her kids out to Shoemaker park and played in the sprinkler.

Me and Joy

Grace running through. We won't talk about the times when she slipped...

My friend Jamie and her kids stopped by! We had a nice visit!