Mr. Hosta

We had this flower bed in front of our house. The lady who owned the house before us had some crazy wild flowers in it. We had decided to remove all foliage and take out the flower bed. My boss offered a plant that she had. I told her I did not have any type of green thumb. She assured me that she had a mighty hearty plant that loved Juneau weather. So, change of plan, we will keep the flower bed and provide a home for this is our lone little hosta plant, I named him Mr. Hosta. He was delivered and planted early June.Now check out Mr. Hosta, he is lovin' our flower bed. Maybe if this plant thing works out we'll add some more.

Rock-n-Roll Party!!

This is Makenna, she turned 6 recently and she was the Queen of her own "Rock Diva" birthday party. Her parents (Brandon and Megan) had the party at the local pizza parlor. There was pizza (of course), video games and CAKE!!








Mia was pretty excited to wear her Hanna Montana wig.

Reed loved his new look.

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!!