First Trip to Alaska

The tired travelers arrive at Anchorages' Ted Stevens Airport. They came up for about a week during Thanksgiving.Emery's first time in the snow.Christoffer with his puppy Chompers, and Heidi holding Emery.

Babies change a lot, even in a few days Emery has gotten bigger and stronger it seems.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. We'll be missing the extended family this year. We did not hear from you Stephen. We will be having Ericka and the girls and Heidi and Josh tomorrow. Sunday we will celebrate with all our children and maybe some people from church. We had hoped to see Dean, Kurt and Jose but they will be busy slaughtering their pigs and I suppose wrapping them for sale on Sunday.
Have a great day. We have much to thankful for, especially our great God and all the blessings He bestows.

Kate Rusby

I think we've had enough of Sufjan's Christmas. I'm replacing it with some more of Kate Rusby. Enjoy!

Guess the Date

As I said, I am sorting and scanning old photos and am currently doing the years between Peter's birth and Jonathan's birth. Back then few pictures had the date they were developed stamped on the photo.

Here are some photos that I have reason to believe were taken between 1988 and 1991 but I'm not certain.

It's definitely summertime. We're gathered in our sunroom. Mark and Lois Ann are visiting. When were these photos taken?

Tyler's Recommendations

Tyler suggested some artists similar to Sufjan. Here are two UTube posts with Rosie Thomas and Denison Witmer performing.

What should we clap for???

Kate Rusby

My latest 'discovery' in the world of music is a singer of traditional English folk songs named Kate Rusby. (My musical tastes drifted across the pond a few years ago - it seems that most of my favorite artists are from the British Isles.)

I love the melodies, the voice, the simple instrumentals. I'm a little too lazy to put the videos right on the blog, so I'll simply offer a few YouTube links: Fare Thee Well, Who Will Sing Me Lullabies, Sir Eglamore.

Her MySpace page.

Grandpuppy Chompers

This is the best kind of skating, on new ice with a new puppy.
Here is Christoffers new German Shepherd puppy.
Her name is chompers, and that is what she is doing to the flowers.
I found some of these ice crystals on the lake. They were hard to focus and photograph with bifocals and the small screen on the camera.

A Long Time Ago

I am currently scanning our old photos that have been sitting unsorted in multiple shoe boxes. Right now I'm doing photos from the time Jo and I met until Peter was born. You'll be seeing more of these in the near future.

What year are we talking about here? Hmmmm. Are these even from the same year?