Happy Father's Day

I have had the good fortune to be blessed with great father figures. First, my dad is the most loving, caring, special, person I know. He has been great. He has taught me to be organized, honest, and to help when help is needed. He also has taught me a love for animals. We would spend hours when I was younger catching and taming barn kittens. He also taught me how to drive. He taught me that driving is meant to be done right, and that the laws are not to inconvenience us, but to keep us safe. He is also very patient. He taught me a love of the military, and what different machines were and what they did. He has always been there for me, and I love him for that. Second, I have a great father-in-law. He is a joker, but I love him for it, even though I get a little annoyed at times :) He is always ready to do anything for anyone. He also has let me tag along while hunting, and even gave up a good shot so I wouldn't cry if he killed the deer. He even let me come again after I chased some deer away yelling " Run deer, they are going to kill you!" He is very sweet and loves his family more than anything. He kills himself working to make a better life for his wife and the two kids still at home. He is great, and I am happy that he is in my family. Finally, I have been really close with all of my grandpas. They have each taught me invaluable lessons that I will continually apply to my life. They are and were such great people, and I am a better person for knowing them. I would also like to wish Cam a happy father's day. Even though we don't have any children yet, he is still so great with other people's. He has become an uncle to my little cousins and no one can tell them that we are not their aunt and uncle know we are married. He also will take anyone else's children under wing, teaching them anything from baseball to math. He is so great and will be an awesome dad

Little League

Thurseday Cameron had to umpire the little league games. Kasin, Christopher, and John (my cousins) play. Kasin and Christopher play in the minors on the same team, and John plays in the majors. Brett and Jake, my uncles, coach the "little boy's" team. It was fun to have someone to watch while Cameron umps. I think they really have fun playing. I say John's first big hit, a double over second base. The "little boys" also played very well. I also had a really fun time talking to the rest of my family.

REALLY!!

So, Wednesday it snowed. Ya, it really snowed, two inches. Kwinnae and I had to work out at the lake. The house we were cleaning didn't have heat so we froze. Cameron had to play a double header that night. It got warmer by the time he had to play, but it was still ridiculously cold for June. Needless to say, the garden didn't fair to well. Here are the sad pictures of our work.

Working in the Garden

About three weeks ago we helped my parents plant the gardens. Cameron even built them a new rock path. We took all day and planted flowers, tomatoes, onions, and peppers. It was so fun to put in a good days work outside. Then, my mom spent all week cleaning our house, deep cleaning. I helped her a little. It was fun with the whole family just helping each other.

The New Addition to the Family

Around the end of school my parents decided to get a dog. They drove all the way to Montana to get a standard poodle named Mya (Passions mya moon mystic). She is five years old, AKC papered, and apricot colored. She really just looks white with a frosting of orangey brown. She is very shy, and very clingy, especially to my dad. All in all we like her. Really cool of my parents to get a dog after I am out of the house :)

Where I Wish I Was

Last summer we took a trip to Alaska. It was awesome! We went there so Cameron could play baseball. I got to go along for the ride. Cameron and I were the chaperons of the team, so we stayed with the boys. It was no big deal since we hung out with most of them. Robert Matthews was our tour guide, and he got us our cabins. He used to live in Girdwood, where we stayed about 20 min from Anchorage where we played. Here is our bi-cabin complex and the bunk house.

We actually had a black bear on our porch one morning. Bailey saw it first and screamed. That scared it away, but it left a big mess.

A lot of the team didn't want to do anything, really, so Robert took Cameron, Rob, Eddie, Rass, Big Edd, one of Robert's friends, and me fishing in a secret local spot. We had to run down some railroad tracks and hide from a train to get there. We had a lot of fun. Rass caught the biggest fish. Robert caught the other one. Rob caught an anchor and a diaper, picture not taken because it was grose! Cam and Eddie didn't catch anything, successfully. I didn't fish because I was on wolf, yep wolf, patrol. Robert's brother saw one there the day before we went fishing. I was on patrol because I am a good shot with a gun, I guess. I don't think so, but I did beat Nate in a shooting contest. I really think they just didn't want to share the fishing poles. Another day we all, all the team and coach and his family and Robert and Big Edd and some of Robert's brothers, went fishing on the Russian River. I got rocked by a huge salmon, literally it kept me on a rock and would try and attack me if I moved. We had to cut our fishing short because two grizzly cubs crashed our party. I have a picture of one of them, but it isn't very good because I was really far away.

We went to church in Girdwood at the LDS/Lutheran chapel. It was beautiful. They were such a small ward. They were excited to actually have a lot of boys to help pass the sacrament. I had a hard time paying attention to the lesson because the view was so beautiful.

We all went on a tram ride at the Alyeska resort, the ski resort just above Girdwood. It was so funny to watch Cameron on the ride up and down, he is so scared of heights. The view was amasing. A lot of the boys hiked up to the glacier, we didn't it was too far up for our liking. You can jump off were I am standing and paraglide down, Cameron wouldn't let me but it would have been cool.

We had to drive into Anchorage everyday to play ball. We drove 20 min along the Old Seaward Highway, one of the most dangerous in the US it turns out. It was right along the coast. It was beautiful so I didn't mind the drive at all.

The real reason we were there was to play baseball and play we did. We ended up winning the North West Regional title. It was really cool and a great experience..

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