Berry Pickers

I grew up picking berries in Alaska. We usually picked Blueberries and Raspberries but my favorite and harder to find are Salmonberries. Salmonberries are orange in color and tart yet sweet at the same time. I am pleased I was able to share this experience with my 4 children yesterday. They had the opportunity to pick berries and they each got to taste the flavor of Salmonberries. Yay! One more notch in their belt of life.

Update & Embarassing Moment

We have kept our prior home as a rental house and sadly our renters who we really loved decided to move back home to Ireland. I wish them the best. They are a great family. Our rental house is now back on the market and yesterday Jon, myself, Maren & Dean (Wells is in Alaska with my sister and her family, Sidney flew out yesterday to spend a week with her cousin) painted most of the interior. Dean did a good not touching the paint, brushes or rollers and Maren did a great job painting with the little brushes and the two of them worked so hard that I told her when we were done we would get slurpies. I wore a pair of pants I actually like to wear and when I got the first spot of paint on them I decided to turn them inside out. I also turned Maren't clothing inside out to prevent paint splatter. It was late in the evening when we finished and we were filthy. We drove to 7-11 and Maren and I went in and started making slurpies. The woman who works there asked me "Do you know your pants are on inside out?" OOOOOOOOPS!!!! I forgot I had turned our clothes inside out to prevent paint from ruining them. I had the largest pockets and they looked ridiculous. We had paint in our hair, on our faces, arms and feet. Pretty funny to be caught in public like that.

Talented Toe

I had to take a picture of Dean's new freedom. He realized he could open the window with his big toe. Even more recently, he became talented enough with his big toe to close the window too. I find it to be pretty funny and thought I would share.