6th Grade Immigration Day

Joshua has been studying Immigration at school.  Joshua was a Mexican Immigrant.  They had an "Immigration Day".  It was a simulation of what it would have been like to come to America in the early 1900's.  They arrived by boat, Josh was in steerage, and made their way to Ellis Island, where they were put threw different stations.  There was a baggage station (where there bags were checked and some of there stuff stolen), a medical stations (fun test here like jumping on one leg, etc.), a interview station (where they were grilled as to where, why, what and how) and a passport station.  Some were even deported.  It was a fun day and I got to help!

A little Sunshine!

Got this idea of Pinterest....used it to cheer up someone's day!

Halloween and Thanksgiving

Josh and his buddies warming up on Halloween night!

Nate (in the monster mask) and his friends "hangin" on Halloween night!

We went to the church carnival put on by the youth.  They had fun, and Josh even came home with a new pet gold fish....Thanks a lot!

We had a great Thanksgiving with our Alaska Family, The Teeples, Kellers, Huntzingers, and Moncurs.  As you can see we had a lot of food and TONS of pie!  The woman hung out at their table and the men at theirs....and the kids, where ever!  We had a great time, and Stephanie was a wonderful host as always.

Catch up

New Christmas ornament (from Grandma Swenson), Beautiful sunny Alaskan day, Breakfast in bed courtesy of Josh, Freezing at the Tree lighting ceremony, enjoying chocolate covered bacon, CrAzY hair day, and freezing at a football game!

Church basketball Champs!

Family Pictures

 Thanks Cherie for taking such great family pictures!

Pheasant Hunting

Jared took the boys pheasant hunting a few weekend ago.  There has been a little depression running through our house since we lost Pete, so Jared decided to take the boys hunting.  They haven't been pheasant hunting since we lived in Iowa, so they were really excited.  They went to a farm, so pheasants were abundant!

 Josh was so excited because he killed his first pheasant at age 11 and Jared killed his at age 12.  Josh thought he was really cool.  Jared went with some other doctors from work, who had dogs.  The boys were happy!

Jared stopped and took this picture on the way home.  That is an old stranded boat in the middle of a lake. Sure there is a story behind that!

True Blue

Displaying our Cougar Pride up here in Alaska!