How Popa spent his Thanksgiving

Here's a picture of Dad shoveling (one "l" or two?..too lazy to spell check!) the snow for the 3rd time on Thanksgiving Day...I believe he shovelled(again 1 or 2?) one more time before the guest showed up.

Kenai was his constant companion. She even got his hat off his bed today (Friday) so they could take a walk.

We had 12 people all together. Three guys Tim works with and their wives...but no kids. LeighAnne asked that I make sure next year to have more kids come too.

PETA would be proud

Found this article in The Alaska Star, a local paper for Eagle River. I won't even bother expanding......this is the best!

Ha, Ha, H-ha, Ha

It's currently 43 degrees in Anchorage, Alaska. What, pray tell is the temp where you are?

(OK, I know you'll still be the winner in the end, but give me this moment!)

Only in Alaska

Our new church is a great place. We are still trying to find our niche, but it offers so much to its congregation and the community. Like this section here...I pulled it off of the web site. See if you can find the uniquely Alaskan service they provide to the community.


CARE MINISTRIES

These are a few of the various ways to care for people within the church.

Care Meals: Help meet a tangible need by periodically providing meals
during the various transitional seasons of life.

Hospital Visitation: Visit with people in the hospital to encourage,
support, and care for them and their families in a time of physical, emotional
and spiritual need.

Military Deployment Ministry: Help support and honor our military
members and their families by prayer, fellowship, and providing for basic
needs, especially when a spouse is deployed to another part of the world.

Moose Kill Ministry: Help salvage and distribute meat from moose
road-kills. Harvested meat is given to families in need. This is a unique
ministry with several ways you can serve such as a dispatching the team,
harvesting the moose meat, and processing and distributing the meat.

Encouragers: Help provide a safe place for struggling people in our
community to seek help in a counseling situation. Receive training and
mentoring in guiding people towards wholeness in Christ.



Uuummm, yeaaah, can you guess which one is at the top of my "no thanks" list.

from Leigh Anne

Hi! Sleding was a lot of fun! We only sled down the driveway. Haley, Sarah beth, and I stood up, and used sticks to have fun. We,or Haley and I,sill sat down. Jamison wasn't so sure about it. One reason, he hates hats. But we all, including daddy had fun in the end.

SNOW!

Well, the first real snow fell today. The other stuff we've had has been so little that it just blew off the roads and never amounted to much. As I write this, the girls are still outside sledding.




Jamison, however, was not as thrilled. His mittens were a little big and he didn't understand how to put is thumb over...his boots were also too big, he had on more layers than he could handle and to top it all off, he was forced to wear a hat!








But these two girls were in Alaskan paradise.

EDITED:Candy please moma

If you haven't seen this yet, its darling. But if you caught it earlier before I changed the format, then it's still the same video; it's just not clogging up the blog.

(P.S. a little blog knowledge-click on the highlighted words to get you to a new page or picture.)