1st Birthday for Keira and other grandkid pics

Keira had a CareBear birthday on Saturday (officially her birthday was today). All of the grandkids were there to help her celebrate so we decided it would be a good opportunity to get some pictures. Have you ever tried to get 5 kids to sit still and look the same direction all at one time? Needless to say we got some very interesting expressions on everyone's faces. I picked out the ones that were the best of the bunch.




















Keira, Evan, Hadley, Kayleigh, Brooklyn with Papa and Grammy and with their mommy's.













Evan and Kayleigh get away from the "little" kids to play some Wii and Brooklyn and Keira go nose to nose over the new birthday toys.















Hadley thought Auntie Kara had the best tasting thumb of all. Evan playing with some of the cars and tractors that belonged to his Daddy when he was a little boy. Keira looking outside and wishing she could play out there with the kitties.



Just some misc. shots of the kids from this summer. They are all growing up so fast. Evan is now in Kindergarten (and loves it), Kayleigh will be 5 in November and more than ready to be in school, but must wait a year. Brooklyn will turn 2 next weekend and there isn't anything she can't say or at least won't try to say. Keira started walking about 3 weeks ago so keeps her parents on the move and Hadley is nearing 5 months. Kara and Jaret are expecting a baby sometime in the spring so that will make an even half dozen grandkids. We love every single one of them and are so fortunate to get to spend so much time with them.

Alaska in August

Aug. 2nd, Gary, Rol, Dan and Bob flew out to Prince of Wales Island in Alaska for a week of fishing. They had a great time and caught lots of fish and saw some great scenery. Every morning and evening they set out crab pots and harvested the crab twice a day also. One day was spent on a charter boat halibut fishing and they caught lots of other kinds of fish too. Bob caught a 75 poung halibut. The first fish they caught after arriving in Alaska is shown in the picture with Dan and Rol. It was only a few inches long. Quite different from the next day when Bob caught the 75 pounder. While they were out on the charter a whale was very close by and doing a lot of showing off. He would wave his fins and tale and splash them hard into the water. Only one minor mishap marred the trip, Gary got a treble hook stuck in his chin and had to go to the island doctor to get it removed. He was also pretty bitten up by a black bug that he seems to be allergic to but I think even though he is still itching he would take the trip again. Dan did all of the picture taking and burned a disc for us with 163 pictures and about 10 videos on it so this is just a very small selection of shots.