Gotta Love the Weather!

One of my favorite things of going back to Colorado is teh AWESOME weather they have. Here's a couple shots for your enjoyment! The first was taken while still in Nebraska, the other three were taken at my sisters house.
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A little more of Ben's Birthday

Forgot to post these pictures from Ben's birthday. After all the fun at home, we ventured out to Roadrunner's go-kart track. Man was that fun! After two runs of all of us driving, the last run was for Andy and Ben.

Ready at the starting line

When we came home, we found Cubby playing dress up :)

Can you say ROCKETSHIP???? (Kevin and Spring?)

After a house robbery episode where the robbers/punks decided to take only Lisa's bike, a shopping trip was taken on by the two of us. Low and behold, a bike yelled our names from craigslist! A sweet 2006 Specialized Stumpjumper. Super light, it almost floats away if you're not sitting on it! :)
We're gonna race tomorrow......stay tuned for the winner.

Upgrade to disc brakes have already been purchased and FEDEXED to us.....look for lisa on a trail near you, she'll be able to do a state a day.

Rock Climbing Along Turnagain

Rock Climbing at 10pm

One beautiful evening, Kevin, Laura, our roommate Susan, Ben and I went rock climbing along Turnagain Arm.....from about 8 til 11pm.....of course still having sunlight to see. Click on the box above to see the shots!

Happy Birthday Ben!

Ben's birthday was yesterday...had a few friends over and had a blast. Did some Mooses Tooth pizza and beer, blueberry muffins and blueberry sour cream cake, some present opening, a Cornhole tournament (see below), some Go-Karts, some poker, and some darts. Killer day.

Ben ripping into his Hello Kitty present from Kevin and Laura....

Turns out it was awesome clay poker chips! Thanks Kevin and Laura!

In case ya didn't know, Ben's a HUGE fan of Superman.....I found an awesome key to make it into his house key :)

The dogs had fun with the present wrapping as well

Laura made a nice sign in the driveway for Ben to see when he came home from work :)

Enjoying a nice frosty glass of Alpenglow Amber beer....and Laura's face :)

Birthday Cont'd.

What birthday is complete without a good game of Cornhole?!?!?!? (AKA - bean bags.) We had a small tournament....Kevin and Ben won.

Ben just made a "cornhole" - a bag in the hole. Whe came up with this name?!?!?!? Oh well, fun anyway.

Eagle River Valley Hike

Went on a hike in Eagle River Valley Monday....what a badass place. Kept our eyes out for bears as we kept walking over bear scat, and Kevin, who came along, told us of a guy he knew who got maulled here. Great.

I found my hiding place from Smokey the Bear

The 3 Musketeers at Echo Point....Crow's Pass is behind us - a very desired backpacking trip we are gonna do this summer!

Russian River Combat Salmon Fishing

Ben and I went down to the Russian River last weekend to go salmon fishing....combat salmon fishing. We left our house at midnight and were fishing by 3am. Yes, its Alaska, there was plenty of light.

See em all line up!

The area around the river was beautiful, loved these wild roses. Kept my eye out for the pink grizzly bears - yes, thats right, pink. The brilliant Alaska Fish and Game dept has come up with the brilliant idea to paint the problem bears so you can stay away. Disgusting!

Ben in all his glory! You can see where the glacial water and the freshwater converge, that's where we were told to fish.

THere are handy cleaning stations in the river to keep the smelly carcasses from stinkin and littering the place. Ben sharpening his BIG KNOOOIIIIIFE.

Final deck shots!

So that's it. We are officially done with the deck! Looks pretty good eh? What a job,...

Happy Summer Solstice!!!

Summer solstice is here!!!! The longest day we get up here in Alaska.....a full 19 hours and 21 minutes of the sun being visible. However it will be light all through the nights, dont even need to drive with lights on! Not sure what we're doing tonight, its a pretty big day to celebrate for Alaskans.
Thought we would share a couple more pics around the house...a picture of our front porch with our new hanging plants and our gorgeous tulips that Ben planted last year.

Had the Browns and their twin baby girls over for a barbeque, thought this was a great picture. No, Andy's head was not set on fire. It was our citronella candle behind him....good face though!

Enjoying some good food and company on our new deck set on our new deck! :)

A beautiful sunset (at midnight) we had last night.

Deck Construction Continued!

As of writing this, the deck is complete! However I just spent about 4 hours waterproofing it and it needs to dry.....then I will take the final pictures!!!!!! Its so awesome, we sit on it everyday just in awe.
But in the meantime, here are some more pictures of the construction.

Andy helpin out building and drinking. :)

Trying my hand out at using a Skillsaw....fun but kinda freaky!

This is a funny story....Ben was doing a GREAT job at building the handrails for the deck, however made them about a foot too short!!! However, with his imaginative creativity....we used them anyway and it made the deck look even better, like someone designed it that way. Good job Ben!

Nailing in the handrails, if you can tell they worked great, we just added another board below it. Stay tuned for the completed pictures!!!!