Beautiful End to a Beautiful Day

The New Subaru Forester Outhouse                                                

Welcome to our spooky home sweet home.  

Helmet hiking.  It's the new extreme thing. 

Where the hell did Mom put my toilet?



I think this will work.

Stoked about EC

 

 

It never gets old.

Stoko is done with the diapers.  But that isn't his own poo in the potty that he's celebrating.  Genevieve has been doing some amazing work on the elimination communication front.  At least when it comes to the big jobs.  Huxley is rarely pooping in his pants these days.  To anybody with the time and patience, I have to strongly recommend the EC approach.  The book, "Diaper Free Before Three" is what got us thinking.  Mostly the part where it talked about how half the world's children are potty trained by age one. 

And lo and behold, there's a lot of people going for the EC approach.  It's pretty awesome.  It worked for Katie and Zach, friends of ours from Bethel days.

This is the kind of thing we're into these days. 

Sky Rockets In Flight

Early morning delight. Kodiak version! We're watching from the top of Pillar Mountain, bright and early, if all goes well.



Here's a pretty cool time lapse video of the rocket getting ready:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lp6nforTJY&feature=youtu.be

Road's End

When was the last time you were at a restaurant and somebody rode up on a horse, tied it up, popped in for three cans of soda, then galloped off into the forest? Our camera batteries died, so we have to rely on old fashioned words, but that happened today at the Road's End Restaurant in Chiniak. The best part is the horse rider was a thirteen year old girl.

We really wanted to take a picture of the parking lot. Three ATVs, one car with surfboards, one truck, and one horse. Did I mention that the girl was riding bareback? It really was like something out of a movie. One that would be met with a healthy, "Yeah, right, like that would ever happen." We didn't catch the horse-rider's name. It's probably Katniss.

Our other highlights of the day... coming home with a fresh silver. The second silver we've come home with. Genevieve is the definite breadwinner here. She's got the strategy down. Dinner will be so tasty!

And of course, excellent surf at Pasagshak. And beach wandering and horse watching. And tasty cinnamon rolls at Flyby. All in all, a great Saturday.

Crab Fest Part Dos

The survival suit races. (If ships sunk when the weather was this nice, I doubt there'd ever be a fatality.)











It looks pretty fun.

Mardis gras? Just training.





Six bucks well spent.







Here's what an actual rescue looks like:



Help is on its way!



(Rescue swimmer ready to drop)



(Rescue swimmer dropping)



(Rescue swimmer)



(Thankful sunken sailors)



(Rescue basket being hoisted)

The Crab Fest Parade:



(Shrimp Fest)



No parade is complete without patriotic motorcycles!



That's the spirit!



Paxson's first team event!



Ready to Rock!

Oh yeah, we got a new fridge.



Sad news, we lost our happy cow. Freezer malfunction.





$1,000 of range fed goodness down the drain!

Crab Fest 2011

Crabfest is traditionally synonymous with total crap weather. 2011 was an exception, and Nana was on hand to help us celebrate. Rides, Coast Guard demonstrations, and free money are amongst the highlights. And of course, fair food.





Nana shares an exquisite freshly dipped chocolate nut ice cream bar with Stoko Loco.





Doing our best to get our kids to vomit on the "Spin The Apple" ride. No dice.









Free money in the sawdust.




The Lions club, trying hard to explain the importance of free money to two and three year olds.




I GOTTA HAVE MORE COWBELL! (By the way, so lame of you, NBC, to remove the original from youtube.) Nice work Dover! You are a natural with the Kodiak Island Drummers.