AND SHE'S OFF

Even though Brianna took her first steps over one and a half months ago this is the first video I've gotten of her walking. Just this past week now has she really started walking around everywhere all day long. Sporadically she would walk across the room, but she seemed to prefer crawling most of the time instead (it probably was much faster). So to the much anticipation of the family here she is...

Sorry - you'll have to tilt your head.

Here she is doing a little dance before she started to walk.

So there you have it - my crazy monkey is on the run!!! Wish me luck! :)

DAD'S DAY

For Father's Day Justin wanted to go camping - big surprise huh? :) So we headed down to the Klutina River to do some salmon fishing. Even though the fishing was a total bust (the fish hadn't made it to the river yet), we had a really fun, relaxing weekend.

Brianna cruisin around the campground - well until she face planted it into the dirt. Ouch!

Since we weren't catching fish we headed down the road to the Copper River and checked out the fish wheels - they weren't catching anything either.

It was so blasted windy down there - I was freezing!

On our way back to our campground we came up quickly on a fire truck with it's lights flashing.

Yep we had to slow down from 80 to 40 behind this stupid truck. (I'm so glad they were in such a hurry to get to the fire!) We had to laugh, I mean can you legally pass a fire truck that has it's light on???

And this is us finally passing the truck. It had pulled over to the side of the road to make a u-turn. Yep that's right we had passed the campground that was on fire about 5 minutes ago!!!

Justin fishing even though there were no fish. I think the whole 3 days that we were there there was maybe 5 fish caught.

Brianna and I chilled out on the sidelines and watched daddy.

Hopefully we'll have better luck 4th of July weekend when we head back down there. But like I said it was still so much fun just hanging out with the family.

Love you babe! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!! (Seriously he's the greatest dad ever - Bri said so!:) )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTY!!!

Happy Birthday to my little sis Kristy. She's such an old lady!!! Oh wait - if she's old that means I'm Old Mother Hubbard. :) Well I can't say enough good things about Kristy - I love this chica!!! She is one of my bestest and closest friends, we can tell each other anything, she watches scary movies with me (Milo), loves to fall asleep on my couch after 5 min into the movie, she rode in the big blue van with me and picked up guys, she got stuck in a bucket, and she just makes me laugh all the time. Thanks for being such an great sister and an amazing friend! Love you Kristy!!!

MISS INDEPENDENT

How funny are these? I found these pictures of Brianna on my camera that I'd forgotten about and just had to post them. So a couple of weeks ago she was in her room playing and I hear her start crying. I walk into her room to find her "stuck" in a pair of pj's. She had been unpacking her dresser drawers (one of her favorite games) and I guess decided to play dress up. The only problem - she got her little hand stuck in the foot hole and couldn't figure out how to get out of it. And well the mean mom that I am had to snap a few pictures before I went and "rescued" her. :)
On a side note those aren't boogers on her nose. The little munchkin took a flying leap of the bed in the hotel room and did a very nice face plant.

SEWARD

For Memorial Day Weekend we went down to Seward for a little git away. Other than the really really long car ride it was really fun.

Brianna helping mom pack the coolers.

Brianna in a semi-coma. When she got really irritated we throw on Baby Einstein to help pass the time. This is her watching - as you can tell she's super thrilled. :)

The first day Justin's charter boat got canceled so we went out to Exit Glacier. It was a little cold and rainy but we still had a good time. I'll have to post pictures of that day later cause I forgot our camera so the pictures are on our friends camera. That night we headed out to some friends house that live in Seward for dinner. We ate some yummy surf and turf and enjoyed some good company.

Brianna playing with Kate. I think 95% of the time we were there these 2 were at the windowsill playing with the dogs outside.

A picture from the shore.

The next day the weather wasn't any better so Justin's charter boat got canceled again. So our friend, Hill who owns a charter boat, took us out on his boat to do some bay fishing. He said it would be a really easy, calm trip so Brianna and I should come along. It was kinda neat because although Bri wasn't the youngest person ever to ride on the boat (Kate's been on before), she was the youngest that had gone that far out. At first it was really nice, Bri loved looking out the window and she even fell asleep on the way out. Then the captain took us out into the rough ocean for a couple of trips to see if we could catch some cod. Well we did catch some cod, but the 10ft seas weren't very enjoyable to some. Although Brianna slept through most of it, I don't think she was a fan. She started crying and got really hot, so I took of her hat and jacket and she seemed to calm down a little. But about 5 minutes after looking around she puked all over the place. The poor thing must be like her dad and gets sea sick. :(

Goofing off with dad on the boat.
Looking at a sea otter.
Our catch of the day. (yes I look like a dork with my eyes closed, but it's the only one we have)
The next day Justin went out on the charter boat while Brianna and I went to the sea life center. Justin had a pretty miserable day. The seas were again really rough and he got sick a couple of times. Our poor friend Patty and her son didn't even fish they were so sick. But he ended up catching a 50lb and a 30lb halibut to stock our freezer with. Brianna and I had a good time at the sea life center. Even though I think Brianna was still a little too young to really enjoy it. She was more interested in people watching than wildlife watching.

Saying hi to the sea lion.

Scoping out the big fish tanks

Watching the seals eat lunch.
We also were fortunate enough on the ride home to see Mt McKinley. It's usually hiding behind cloud cover, so we were really lucky to see it as we were passing by. (By the time we got back in the truck it was covered again)

About an hour from home Brianna hit the wall and was done with riding in the car. So we took a little break playing in the back of the truck.

And finally Brianna continued to be a good helper and helped unpack the coolers when we got home. She's such a funny girl!