Keeping up with the Mercers

OK, so my friend Kelly (Mercer) is a blogging nut, Anyway, she has added some fancy background on her page, links to my page, and music. Well, I have managed to use the templates provided to "spruce" up our background and I added a little music. Eventually I'll add some links, including one to her page so you can see just how fancy hers is. In the meantime enjoy the music. I'll try to add more, maybe some of the kids favorite songs.

Washington

We had to visit Washington in May. It was for a 'celebration of life' for Art Shelly. Grandpa came from Hawaii and Uncle David lives in Washington so we got to spend some family time together. Here we are at Uncle David's house as you can see Grandpa loves his Grandkids. At least for the week we were together. By the end of the week Grandpa was exhausted and couldn't wait to get back to his laid back Hawaiian life.

We left Seattle to go to Bremerton for the 'clebration of life' party. Art's youngest daughter Alison has been one of my best friends for over 35 years. She has two kids who are 'cousins'. Jon is 6 and Lauren is 5, Mia and Reed seemed to love having more cousins and the four were quite a handful.

BEARS!!

Del is working for Channel Construction and they have a contract out at Greens Creek Mine to create a tailings pit. Greenscreek is located north of Juneau so Del has to take a boat to and from work so you can imagine it is pretty isolated. Here are a few pictures...


This is a bear that was sitting outside of Del's backhoe. He said it was a bit creepy to have such a big animal just walking around in front of his machine.


Apparently here the "little" guy decided it was time to sit down and rest.
This is the ore warehouse where Greens Creek mining stores all the product they pull out of the hillside. They are pulling mostly Zinc. (Sorry for the glare, Del was in a moving truck when he took this picture).


You can see here the long tube that is a conveyer that dumps the ore material into the ship.

Opening Day!!

Saturday was opening day of Little League in Juneau. It was supposed to be last Saturday but there was still a bit of snow on the fields. We also had our first game. Mia is playing 'farm' league softball. Farm league is when the coach pitches. Mia had fun, she was 1 for 1 and threw out two players when she was in the pitchers position. She loves to wear her costume, aka uniform.

Easter in Alaska

Athough Easter was early this year it was a typical Alaskan Easter. Snow and rain. Here are some pictures of our local egg hunt. Needless to say the Easter Bunny came to our house but all eggs and suprises were hidden in the house...ya think!!

Reed's B-day Fun!!

This is Reed's cake...yes I made it. In case you can't tell it is the Autobot symbol from the Transformers. Reed just loves anything to do with Transformers.

This is the pizza place where we had the party. You can see Del (in the red) and a couple of his buddies in front of the games. The rest are our friends along the table and of course I am behind the camera...just where I like it. :-)

Happy Birthday to you!!

This is where we were singing "happy birthday" and he was so embarrassed he kept staring up at the ceiling.