Finally some Alaska pictures

I know it only took me a week to get these up here but hey, I don't jet set like I used to. Bouncing back after even a mini vacation takes a little bit of effort.

Really I told you everything that we did mostly. We went up for my grandpa's birthday and got to visit with my family which I very rarely get to see. Mostly because they live in Anchorage and I live here.

Also we drove out to Portage glacier, Whittier and went on a cool bike ride through the city.

Really, that about sums up our weekend.

But here are some cool pictures.

:)

We always forget just how pretty Alaska really is until we leave and come back. Around every corner was a "beautiful, gorgeous, wish you were here" moment.

My brain is 2500 miles away from home...

So today is a glorious day. My rock star husband made all of our travel reservations for our vacation and now I can think of nothing else. We are going to Hawaii for our 10 year anniversary this summer.

I am going to spend the rest of the day watching this.


Can't wait!!

Squeel!!

Beach pictures!!

So I realize it would take far too long to explain all of these pictures from our grand getaway.(That and frankly, who cares except those involved, but luckily those involved read this blog.) But instead I thought maybe someone might be interested in a slideshow. However if you are not, now would be an excellent time to check out. I wouldn't hold it against you. Although if you have been reading my blog thus far , you are aware of my complete narcissism and my need to show the world just all the super cute things my kids do on a daily basis. So get over it.

Having said that....I will give a couple descriptions....The ones that look like we were bowling in the living room are actually us playing our new Wii. For the 3 people on planet Earth that don't know what that is, it's an interactive video game system that makes you move around as if you were actually playing the sport. It's really fun......Also, there is one of Peanut where it looks like he is strapped to a chair. Well that is pretty much what is going on there. Our house came with a lot of things, but a high chair was not one of them. So we improvised. It worked just fine. It's just a little ghetto.

Enjoy!

Back from the beach

So my family and I have been at the beach for the past 4 days. We just got back this afternoon. My in-laws rented out a beach house between Lincoln City and Depot bay. It was enormous. We had room for my whole family, my Mother and Father in law and my Sister in law. Really we had at least 2 or 3 full size beds left over.

We had a lot of fun doing a whole lot of nothing. The kids played in this giant house hide and seek or whatever. I did a lot of scrapbooking and got caught up on my magazine reading. Mr. jaxonfive worked on his music and in between all that we played a lot of video games. But that is a story for another post.

The house was part of a hotel complex, so we got to use their pool (which the kids and I loved, but I couldn't convince Mr. Grumpy pants (The Mr.) that it wasn't too cold) plus we were ocean front so we could just take a walk and we were on the beach. Ok, granted it's December on the Oregon coast (Brrrrr) but we bundled up and had us a great time.

I have way more pictures and stories, I just thought for now I'll just get some of the highlights up for now and I'll sort through the rest tonight. My best posts come when I don't have kids in my hair. And we all know that doesn't come until like midnight, after the last potty break and glass of water.

So stay tuned......