So about 10 days after Brayden was born, we drove up to North Pole and spent 5 days there visiting family and friends. Lizzie, Alan, and the boys also went up, and we had an incredible 4th of July weekend (for the 2nd year in a row!). We took the kids to Ice Age in 3-D (which was amazing, by the way), spent time at Lizzie's parents cabin on Harding Lake, had a Cook family picnic at Pioneer Park (it'll always be Alaskaland to me!), and had a barbecue at George's parents place. We spent plenty of time in the sun, and was a fairly relaxing few days, especially after the birth of our little man. The only problems that arose was that Brayden slept in our room, so it was hard to let him cry himself to sleep, and he was also having trouble breastfeeding, so I got to drive into North Pole to buy a can of formula at Carrs/Safeway at 3 in the morning! Oh, and Dakota experienced his first real encounter with wasps! We got to Harding Lake before virtually anyone else (only Skip and one of the grandsons were there), so Koda decided he wanted to go play on the swingset on the beach. A couple minutes later, we hear a blood-curdling scream! He was stung by 7 wasps, and screamed at the top of his lungs for about a half hour! However, he wasn't reluctant at all to go play on the swingset after the whole ordeal!Other than that, we had a blast!
