MIA

Yes, we are all still alive and well (well, other than Nolan who has a slight cold...), we have just been enjoying the great outdoors.

May 29 was Doug's birthday.  Brenden decided that Doug needed a "fishing party," so we spent a few days preparing fishing games and making a fish cake.  We should have eaten fish for dinner too, but Doug requested omelets.  So, here in a pictorial nutshell is Doug's birthday.

Captain Brenden and the crew

Captain Nolan

The Birthday Carnival

(Go Fish! Booth, Alaska Art Booth - all art purchasable through Brenden Boehme, and Let's Go Fishing Game Booth)

Dad's Fishing Game

We printed off fish and wrote on them why we love Doug and put a paper clip on each one.  We attached a magnet to a fishing pole and sent Doug fishing.

No one can ever open a present alone in our house.

Doug caught a salmon!

May 30 a real carnival came to Kenai.  I loaded up the kids and we spent a short (yet VERY expensive) time with the carnies.  Doug joined us a short time later after he got off work.

Brenden rode the first ride alone.  

He said he thought he was getting "air sick," but enjoyed the ride.

We have had some excitement here as well.  The moose are having their calves, which makes them very protective and very grumpy.  Brenden was next door playing and I was in the neighbor's house when Brenden came running in screaming about a moose.  The two neighbor boys who were in the yard with Brenden had been charged by the moose and they ran up the swing set into the tower in just enough time to get away from the moose and her twin calves.  SCARY!  Last night our other neighbor called to tell us that a moose just had her calf in their yard and to get the dogs in or the mama moose would certainly kill them.  

We missed it, but there were black bears on the road last week.  The baby brown bears from last summer have been spotted quite often up near where we saw them.  See this link for some photos from a friend's blog.  Oh, the excitement of living in Alaska!