23 August 2010

Road Trip

At 5am we packed up the car and packed up the kids and headed to Seward, Alaska. It was our last summer hoorah before the snow hits and school starts.

The weatherman said, "sunny skies!" Hallelujah, sunny skies! It has been raining for the past month, so this trip couldn't be more perfectly timed!

...Uff-da, the weatherman let me down. It rained. and rained. and rained. Seriously dude, throw me a bone here...or an umbrella! A little bit (okay, a lot) of rain wasn't going to slow us down- we kept on trucking it out there because that's how we roll.

It was well worth it, even if it was raining. The views and scenery were spectacular- from the ocean, to the marsh and rivers, to the snow-capped mountains, to the lush foliage. The smell, oh the smell, there's nothing like it- it was like fresh morning dew and honeysuckle. Delish.
I'm harvesting these images in my memory bank and carrying with them until I'm gray-haired.

Here's our drive from my point-of-view, from Anchorage to Seward, Alaska. You see what I saw through these pictures; bugs on the windshield and all.
{more trip photos to come}














































22 August 2010

I LOVED this weekend because...

I loved this weekend because...
Ron cooked eggels for everyone first thing in the morning, along with the perfect cup of freshly brewed coffee- Boca Style. Eggels is what we, in the Roe Household, call an egg on a bagel.
Nom Nom Nom.






I loved this weekend because...

laundry was officially on hold until Monday.





I loved this weekend because...
we went on a family walk- enjoyed each others company, enjoyed the scenery, enjoyed the first signs of Fall.



















I loved this weekend because...

I got to see my babe decked out in red, white, and blue, cheerleading at the Elmendorf AFB football game.

















I loved this weekend because...

we did silly things, like make silly feathered hats and build silly looking forts completed with a portable DVD player, because watching movies in a tent is mucho fun.









I loved this weekend because...
it finally stopped raining (after 32 days) and the sky opened up to the perfect shade of blue. Doesn't it look divine?









I loved this weekend because...
it was so warm, that we got to add a little water. If you remember this post, we love us some water!










I loved this weekend because...

we went barefoot and squished our toes between the soft blades of green grass.

















I hope ya'll enjoyed your weekend as much as we have! Ours was simply gorgeous.