Eight weeks in Alaska!

Our family has had the opportunity to see some of the beauty of our new home state over the past few weeks.  Here are a few pictures of the fun.


We spent part of a Saturday hiking with another family in Girdwood.  The drive alone would have been enough of a reason to go...

Turnagain Arm on the Seward Highway

We think we saw a couple of beluga whales swimming in the water (but didn't get them in the pictures)!

We hiked two different trails.  One was in an actual rainforest.  Who knew Alaska had rain forests??

Wild blueberries we found on the trail

The trail ended at a beautiful waterfall

Morgan (Caroline's friend and hiking guide), Caroline, Turner and Jackson

The moss was covering everything!

Then we went to hike part of another trail near the Crow Creek Gold Mine.

This trail had a hand tram that would take you.....

over this gorge.

After watching a few people - and a dog - try the hand tram...

Turner, Caroline and Greg went back and forth across the river together.

Then they realized how much fun it was to help other people get across too.

We saw mushrooms like this all over the place.

The drive home was just as beautiful!

Those are snow covered mountains way in the distance.

Sleeping Lady

Our family also celebrated a birthday last month...our first since moving to Alaska.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREG!!!

His favorite birthday meal. (I think I've cooked this for him almost every birthday since we were married!)

We are continuing to love playing at the park after supper as much as possible!  Such a beautiful place!

Greg was able to go fishing in Seward with two guys from our church.  It was an experience of a lifetime!  Lots of huge fish in a beautiful location

They left VERY early in the morning

Bear Glacier

Can't remember if this is a seal or an otter, but neat to see anyway!

One of the halibut they caught - this is a really small one!

Halibut are bottom-feeders, and this one was caught in about 500 feet of water.  Greg said that bait-check was brutal!

Lingcod - but Greg couldn't keep it because it was 33 inches and must be 35 inches to keep.

A successful fishing trip - tons of rockfish

Our kids started school on August 22.  They are attending Birchwood Christian School, which is a part of our church.  We are thankful for this great school!  And the kids have had a great start to the school year!

Our family also did part of a hike up Baldy, which is in Eagle River.  We were unprepared for just how hard a climb it is, and as people started to wear out we decided to finish it another time.  But what a view!

Our family eating at Moose's Tooth celebrating the end of summer.