Jimmy & Mikensi

Chugiak Park

 

 

 

 

Denali

Here we are on our trip to Denali State Park. We arrived in Anchorage on Tuesday night around midnight (2:00am Utah Time). After getting a rental car, we made it to sleep around 4:30am MST. The next day we met up with Jimmy and Mikensi and caravaned the 4 and a half hours to Denali Park. The night before the bus tour, we stayed at the Salmon Bake. It was kind of like a nice scout camp. Tom and Laurel's "Cabin" had a bathroom and an air conditioner in the window. The other 2 "units" were just like tens with plywood walls and carpet floors with two double beds in each one.

Here I am at a view point along the road that goes into the park. It's one road in and one road out. The buses take you a ways into the park so you can see Mount McKinley (which was covered in cloud the day we went there) and then they turn around and head back.

We saw several Grizzly Bears... (double-click to enlarge the image)


this is a picture of 3 wolves that took down a caribou and were snacking in front of us... well along way away from us. They didn't even share - how rude! Of course, Amy just said, "How gross!!" (double-click to enlarge the image)



These are our luxury buses. I think they came from a local school district and were recycled or something. And I wonder why my back hurts now :)

Caleb's B-day Party

Okay, so I'm only a month late putting these up, but I think they're still pretty good. Amy and Amber Moss did a "Astronaut" theme party for Caleb. We gave the kids all little squirt guns; they played in the blow up pool and they all got a balloon tied to their wrist.

Miss America - Caleb version

We finally bought some new couhes and it took like 10 weeks to arrive because the guy's family runs the factor in China. We went up to Salt Lake Saturday morning to pick them up and my neighbors helped me bring them down stairs - so we finally have an area in the basement where we can hang out and guests can come over. A funny story happened while we were in Salt Lake. The guy we bought the couche from (5'2" and maybe 120lbs) said that his family in China thinks every American weighs 300-400lbs. So they paid this 300lb Chinese guy over there to go "jump" on the couches to make sure they were made strong enough. Well my neighbor Mike (5'9" - 155lbs) was sitting on the couch with me and since the cushions were still pretty firm we were both boncing on them when we hear a "crack" - needless to say we stopped and nothing seems to be broken.

If any of you read this, don't tell Amy - she doesn't know yet.

So that afternoon before his nap Caleb finds Amy's swimming suite and decides to do his own Miss American swim suite display on the oversized Ottoman the living room.

Enjoy!!!





Here's the final product.

 

Caleb Crashes

 

So this last week Amy went to Park City with Jimmy and Grandma and met Nicole and her kids up there. He had such a blast and since they didn't come back until after 6pm he just kept going and going and never took a nap. We finally gave him a bath and he still seemed "wired." Well around 8pm Amy came into my office and so I went into the BIG room to check on Caleb and this is what I found.