Josh is here!

Josh got in last night around 9:30. After arriving all the group went to Pel Meini's.
On Monday, we worked around the house, and Kate made Josh a chocolate birthday cake. Shelly made 2 huge taco pies.

David and Caleb were bringing wood into the house.
Shelly just thought that all of her painting duties were done. Janet wanted her window red, so she got to work.
Kate has become the official lawn mower.
Murphy wanted his kate, and could see her from the window. Shelly said get Kate, so he tried!

Caleb's car

Caleb in his new car. This is Janet posting, as Shelly and Kate are at Fred Meyers making a return. We miss you John and Josh!

July 4th

This is at the 4th of July parade...This is me and my mom....i really didnt want my picture taken so i didnt smile......

This pic is of my uncle Steve and my aunt Janet..This was taken after the parade. this was takin by my aunt Janet...these are peoople that were at the parade..and the little boy with the flag is Asher..My aunt loves Asher. These people were in the parade and they were cool.. The guy in the red,white and blue suit is a 4th of July clown This truck is a fire truck i think...
Here is a fourwheeler person that is advertising something????
I was watching the parade...it was really cool....
These fourwheeler people were doing really cool tricks...Me, my mom, and my uncle steve were talking and looking out at the water while we were waiting to get a table at the Hanger(its a restraunt) This is one of those plane things that land on the water....This is part of downtown...the building looking thing in the back is actually a really big cruise ship that just docked... Me and my mom sittinng on a fallen over tree that was going across the flowing river... I was looking at the rushing river....The guy that me and my mom where talking to was paning for gold..We got to see Gold Flecks.... Another guy paning for gold.... This is me climbing up a hill of rocks...And that is my mom watching me... This is me going down a hill of rocks....

I really didnt want my picture taken.....

Hiking the East Glacier Trail

ok... i know this is gross, but when we went hiking we saw this and didnt know if it was
dog or bear poop...we figured out that it was bear poop...so that means that there was once
a bear where we were standing.........scary.........

This is the rushing river that eventually flows into a huge waterfall; (not the one you see us putting our hands under,,the one by the glacier)...This was also the end of our hike where we sat down and ate sandwiches...Then we hiked all the way back to where we started...This was like a 4 mile hike overall...
This glacier is named the Mendenhall Glacier... Its close enough that we can actually walk to it from our house..
This waterfall is named A.J Falls....If you look closely you can see the rainbow...
This is my mom when she was putting her hand under A.J Falls. she was getting all wet from it...
This is me...I got water from A.J Falls and drank it..the water tasted cold and fresh...I also got wet from it..
This is a picture of the mountain that was beside the Mendenhall Glacier...and you can see the glacier on the side..

kates thoughts

hey wats up
i miss everyone sooo much......it has been raining....but its all good....when i first got here i didnt really like it but now i am adjusting...
i cant wait to come down and visit.....i hope to see you all soon
and i will post more pics sometime.....love ya,
kate

Happy Tuesday

We've been here a little over a week now. Murphy has adjusted well, after a few days of whose the boss with Max.
We went to Freds a LOT to get stuff to make our room a home. Janet and Kate are putting together our bookshelf. Kate knew more than Janet on how to put it together. Thanks to her Daddy for teaching her great skills. :-)


After a long day of decorating, putting together beds and bookshelves and being an all around good sport, Kate fell asleep fully dressed on her new rug.
Enjoying the skyhouse after all the hard work of cleaning it out.
Kate and Murphy love going for walks on the path around the pond behind the path... although Murphy really hated the bridge at first.
We started on a short walk, and ended up being gone for over two hours. We walked almost to the Glacier.This is at the Glacier's waterfall.

We're in Alaska

This is our room, the computer is in the closet, that's my bed. Kate's is on the other side. More pics later. We have been here in Juneau for one week.. we are getting settled in and finding our way around. The weather has been nice, and I'll post pictures later.
Treats makes all dogs friends. Steve gives them yummy chummies, and they love them.

The sky fort, Kate loves it and is going to make it nice. Murphy stayed there watching us and wanting to be up there.