More Alaskan Adventures!

There were no ships in on Friday, which meant John got a 3-day weekend! Marisha and her roommate babysat for us while we rented a tandem bike for a few hours. We were lucky that the rain stopped and we had a delightful time! Thanks Marish!

John taking a spin by himself.

My view. (I just thought it was a cool picture)

Friday night Lexi had her first sleepover with her friend Ella. I think they're playing tag in this picture.

And then today we went on the dogsled tour. We've been wanting to do it all summer and finally made it work. Unfortunately, we didn't see John's cousin who works out there. We did have a great time though. These dogs are the real deal - this is how they train in the summer for their winter races. We rode in golf-cart things and enjoyed the ride. Kaytlin was giggling the whole time and yelling, "E-i! [Lexi] E-i! Doggies!" and watching their every move.

Then we got to hold the puppies in camp. This one is 5 weeks old. Lexi and John got to hold two of them and pet them. I even held one for a while, then it licked me and I was done. :o)Kaytlin freaked out and didn't want to touch them, but loved to watch them play. There were also some puppies born an hour before we got there that we got took look at.

Oh, and these are some random mushrooms near camp that are cool-looking but super poisonous. A girl licked one last year and had to be air-vac'ed to the hospital. They're called Alice in Wonderland mushrooms. Yay for 3-day weekends!

The Look

This is what Lexi calls the "Hilarious Grumpy" face. Kaytlin will scowl at us and then roll her eyes back in her head. We think it's pretty funny, even though it's freaky-looking! What's great is she has started doing it on command. Funny girl...

Fort Fun

It was our turn for the kid-swap this last weekend. John made them fort a (because he's still a kid) and they sure had fun with it. Can you find all 7 kids?

It's been so fun to see Lexi play with her friends this summer; we've been lucky to have met some great people up here!

For the grandparents

I don't think I've really given much of an update on the girls in a while. It seems like they've grown up so much this summer.

Lexi has been showing off her imagination more everyday. We have to watch out for tigers and bad frogs (?) at our house and at nights she likes to tell us stories about Princesses. Her all-time favorite thing though has got to be singing. She is constantly serenading us with songs she makes up. Lately she's been singing something like this:
"My only family loves you! My family loves you! My only family loves you as well!" She has this dress she loves to wear and she'll run around the house singing, "I am a Princess!" in a really high voice at the top of her lungs. She's been pretty cute with her sister and "reads" books to her. Kaytlin does a pretty good job at sticking around too.
Kaytlin sure has turned into a social girl. She will sometimes sing along with Lexi but mostly she just likes to say our names over and over and over again really loudly. The last few weeks she's picked up a lot of new words and signs. She continues to be easy-going and just a good kid well, unless you're feeding her - but I won't get into that. Kaytlin is our climber. I'll turn around for like a second and then she'll be standing on the table. One thing that surprises us is how many teeth she has. She's got 12 with 4 more on the way. She'll just look up at me and smile and you can see like all of her teeth - it's crazy. Oh, and Cherrios are her favorite thing, and she likes apples too, but only if they're whole.