Family Pictures

I love this time of year! 

The beautiful colors, sunsets, ballgames, 70 degree weather, sitting by the fire and spending time with my family...these are a few of my favorite things!

Jaycee is graduating this year so we decided to go take some senior pictures. While we were at it, we took some family pictures. Some of the kids were more cooperative then others. 😏

Happy Birthday Mike!

Happy Birthday Mike!😀

Mike works so hard and makes sure everyone is taken care of. He is funny, and the best example for all of us! We are so blessed to have him!

Love you Mike!

Wesley!

Happy Birthday Wesley!

Wesley is so easy going, he never complains or argues...or really says much of anything!😅 j/k he really does talk. He is hardworking, and good at so many things. He had a great year and we are looking forward to all the will accomplish this year. It is crazy how much he changed in one year.

We love you Wes!

 

Alaska Day 7 & 8-At Sea, and Home

Our last day was at sea. We played some games, and ate a fancy dinner. We went to the shows every night, except this night. Guess what? We woke up not feeling the best.😞

We ate a light breakfast before getting off the ship.

As we were getting off the ship there were people coming on to clean in hazmat suits!

It was the real deal.

We started to really feel sick at the airport. We bought some Pepto and some sprite and powered through.

The funniest thing, we ran into Joy and Sawyer at the airport. They just got back from Japan.

Luckily we were able to make it home before we really went downhill.

We quarantined ourselves to our room when we got home, we didn't want to get the kids sick. 

I am so grateful we were able to enjoy the cruise, and for soft toilet paper (tmi), and medicine! I feel terrible for those that were sick on the ship, because this is the worst! I told Mike I would have made them helicopter me off the ship! 

It was reported that 168 passengers and 5 crew members were sick. I would say at least double those numbers!

About a week after we got home we saw in the news that our ship had a salmonella outbreak! Not Nora Virus as we expected. So technically we didn't need to quarantine ourselves away...oh well.

Alaska Day 6-Ketchikan

Everyday I wake up scared to get out of bed, sure today's the day the sickness gets me!

I survived another day!

Today we decided to do the Deer Mountain trail hike.

This hike was no joke!

I tried to get everyone to turn around at this lookout that was a mile in. Nobody wanted to turn around, so we hiked on.

It really was a beautiful hike, I am glad we made it to the top. My knees are a little mad at me.

A total of 4.8 miles with a 2000 foot elevation gain!

It was foggy at the top. We had to wait a little bit, then we were able to see our ship from the top.

By the time we got back to the road I could barely walk, and the road back to town was the hardest! It was so steep. My joints are no good. 

We walked down Creek Steet and then went to a lumberjack show.

Overall a good day. Not sure if I will be able to move tomorrow. Everyone in our group made it to the lumberjack show!