Alaska!

Why, you are thinking, would we venture to the far north in the middle of winter when most people are fleeing to Hawaii? For a very good reason - Nikki (Cory's sister) got married...in Alaska...in the middle of winter...on a frozen lake...of course! It was a week of cold Alaska fun and celebrations. Congrats Nikki and Colter - we love you both so much.

Making Jello with Nana. Theo you are an imp!


Gross!

Eating some meat with Papa J!

Brock looks forward to seeing Poppy (Nana's bird). Brock was so sweet with her! Sadly, I think our visit was a bit too much excitement for Poppy (who we think was about 13 years old). She passed away while we were there :( Rest in piece Poppy girl.

Love that grin!

Cousin Carlee was so nice to let Brock use her sled.

Getting towed by the quad...Brock could have done this all day and NEVER complained about being cold. He takes after Cory! I took a turn driving the quad and he kept complaining that I was going too slow...yes, definately takes after Cory!

Cousins...Carlee and Theo! Theo on the other hand is not a big fan of the cold like his mother :)

Ice fishing! Brock was obsessed with ice fishing. Papa J and Cory cut a hole in the ice which was about 2 ft thick. No fish, but lots of fun!

Theo and Moby in their wedding attire.



There was an awesome view of Mt. McKinley on the day of the ceremony. The Ceremony was down where you see Brock standing in the Lake in front of Nana's cabin in Willow, AK. It was really awesome! The reception was the following night at the Hilton in downtown Anchorage.

Gorgeous bride!











View of downtown anchorage from our room.

The hotel lobby had two huge bears on display - very alaska like!

Swimming in the hotel pool - no pool goes un-swum (is that a word?) in Brock's world.

The boys finally passed out on our last plane home! Until we hit the worst turbulence EVER coming into Reno! I'm quite certain Cory will never fly again!

Another House Project

5 years later and we are still doing house projects! I suppose it never ends, especially when your house is 50 years old. This was a great one...cement along the side of our house to the back yard. This side of the house was always hard to maintain - so this solves that problem. The weather has been beautiful for weeks - highs in the 60s which allowed us lots of time to work outside on this project. We now have tans and back aches too! Brock has been anticipating the arrival of the cement truck for about a week now!

More Game Day Pictures

WOLF! PACK!

If you pay any attention to college football you will know that UNR had the best season in our lifetime! We joined 34,000 other UNR fans in San Francisco last week to cheer them on in the Kraft Bowl and it was AWESOME! Can you imagine SF FULL of people walking around in their wolf pack gear, chanting WOLF-PACK on the muni, a hotel full of fans, ATT park SOLD OUT with Nevadans and winning a bowl game? It was incredible to be a part of that scene. We took the kids and one of the highlights was Theo's ESPN debut! ATT park has a mini baseball field for kids to play in and our kids were the only one's playing. The ESPN camera crew came over to film them and, of coures, our little Theo came right over to the camera, looking in it and touching it (they were holding it at kid level). Moments later I started getting texts and phone calls from our friends who saw Theo on ESPN! I'm told he got a good 15 seconds of air time...pretty cool! Brock had nothing but fun (our kids LOVE to travel). He loved riding the public transportation and was yelling wolf pack with the best them. He chanted wolf pack the whole way up the stadium! Brock loved the mascots as usual and was yelling at Alphie from our seats like they were old friends-which they are of course.

Other highlights from our SF trip - Fishermans wharf and visiting with old friends Allison, Lani, and Topher - love you guys! AND my parents met us at the game - they are real UNR fans now! Sadly, I'm having technical issues and only have a couple pics...

Happy New Year!

Ringing in the New Year with some friends and illegal sparklers...can't beat that! 2010 was an amazing year for us and 2011 is shaping up to be even more fun! Hope yours is the same.




We went up to Cory's jobsite (also a popular sledding destination) to play and sled. Brock liked being thrown into the snow...not suprising! And also not suprising that his Dad thought of this activity.





For the last few months Cory has been in charge of building this Fire Station. It is just about done...another amazing accomplishment.

The boys plowing snow...this was more exciting than sledding.