Our artistic child

Asher has recently discovered that he likes to draw. Particularly, he likes to draw tractors. Peyton helped Asher draw his first one. Ever since, Asher has been adding his own embellishments, which usually consists of various people sitting in the driver's seat. This is the first year Asher has begun drawing anything other than scribbles. So, imagine my surprise when Ainsley drew our family along with the family of some friends while waiting for me to look up some books at the library today. I think she's inherited Peyton's artistic ability. By the way, I wrote the names as she told me who each person is. Cute, right?

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My awesome iPhone

Yes, I've gone completely Mac now. I'm really digging all the apps for my new phone. I just downloaded this app to write on my blog from my phone. How cool is that? And so this isn't a completely boring blogpost, here's a picture.

This is my brother, Tony and my nephew, Macon. I'll write again soon.

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Alaska! (part 2)

Day 2...Inside Passage

Beautiful scenery from the boat.

Hanging out in one of the boat's lounges. There was a TV on the ceiling.

Day 3...Juneau. We're at the Mendenhall Glacier.

An old friend, Steven, is spending the summer in Juneau. The last time we saw Steven, he was just entering high school. Now he's about to graduate from college.

Alaska! (part 1)

When Peyton and I were on our honeymoon we decided to take a big vacation every 5 years by ourselves to celebrate our marriage. In June, we celebrated 10 years of marriage. For our big vacation, I finally talked Peyton in to going on a cruise (something I've been trying to talk him into for, oh about 10 years). Friends of ours, we discovered over Christmas, were celebrating 15 years of marriage. So, we all made a plan to do an Alaskan cruise together.

I will admit...Peyton was right. A cruise isn't really our style of vacation. It was fun and seeing so many parts of Alaska, but not with 12,000 other cruisers (4 cruise boats were docked at the same time at every port). Poor little Skagway...a town of 800 being overtaken by cruise folks. Now, I don't think Skagwayans (?) felt sad about all of the tourist money coming to their town, but adding so many people to such a tiny town took away some of the charm, in my opinion. Anyway, on to the pictures...

We got on the boat in Seattle. So that we could enjoy Seattle, we spent a night at the beginning and end of the cruise.

The Moores and us at the base of the Space Needle in Seattle.

Eating breakfast from an amazing Russian bakery with a view of our boat that we would board later in the day.

Leaving Seattle.

On board the boat our first day...look at all of the people!

Asher's Birthday...in June

I've taken a bit of a blogging break. BUT, finally pictures from Asher's birthday in June...

We went to Saxapahaw after having dinner and cake at our house.

Singing "Happy Birthday" to Asher.