Labor Day at the Cabin!

Every Memorial Day and Labor Day, the family heads up to the cabin in Sutton. Originally, my great grandparents homesteaded on land right past Sutton. My grandmother and one of my great uncles also ended up building homes there. Since, only my great uncle's wife remains on the property full time. BUT....when my grandmother sold her home about 7 years ago, she kept around 5 of the "back" acres. Our family friend, Dan, and my uncle, John, built a small cabin on that property, overlooking a large "pond", which now houses what we call the beaver "condo". It's much to large just to be just a beaver dam! Spending time up at the cabin has become somewhat of a regular tradition Memorial Day-to kick off the summer-and Labor Day-to say farewell to summer! Now that Dakota and the twins are old enough, they enjoy going 4wheeling. This spring, my parents bought the boys a gas powered 4 wheeler, and although the power is still a bit too much for the twins, Dakota has been practicing on it quite a bit! Brayden was introduced to the cabin this year Labor Day weekend. We didn't camp out (I don't think everyone else wanted to wake up to a crying baby!), but spent the day there. Brayden quickly found his "spot".....too cute. He loves the hanging chair, and slept amazingly well that afternoon!

Best brother buddies

Daktoa has been so great with Brayden....sometimes a bit too eager to help! But I suppose that's better than the alternative! Dakota is constantly wanting to be with Brayden, giving him kisses and hugs, and helping me out by retrieving spitty cloths, throwing away diapers, and putting Brayden's clothes away. It's been such a blessing having 2 amazing boys.

The "Oberg" Girls...my wonderful cousins!

In August, two of my cousins flew up to Alaska to visit the family for a week. I hadn't seen Tina or Heather in YEARS, and it was so nice to catch up! One afternoon, they came in from Palmer (where the rest of the family is!), went biking on the coastal trail, did a bit of shopping, and then we all went out to dinner at the Sourdough Mining Company. George had the evening off, so he was able to come also! Lucky guy....dinner with 6 beautiful women! I so wish the girls could get together more often! Love you!!

Brayden's first bath

So I skipped ahead a little posting the family pictures. Brayden's bellybutton "fell off" right before we went to North Pole for 4th of July, so we were able to give him his first real bath! He was so cute....he loved it! He is a complete water baby-now that he's just a bit older, we take him with us to go swimming at the Alaska Club, and he is in love with the jacuzzi. George or I will take him in the jacuzzi, and he's passed out within about 5 minutes. And then he sleeps AMAZING that night! So, I've determined that jacuzzi=baby drugs! I can't wait until he's big enough to start hanging out in the big pool....it's still very cold for him! Anyways, here is a few pictures of his first bath!

Family Pictures

SO For 4th of July this year, we went up to North Pole again. #1-We went to spend a little time with George's parents (and so they could spend time with the new addition, Brayden). Lizzie and Alan also went up this year again, and so we all went up to Skip and Olga's cabin at Harding Lake. Also, one of Lizzie's friends from High School, Annie, is a start up photographer, and since our friend Shannon wasn't able to make it up to Alaska for Brayden's birth :( we had Annie take a few family pictures! We all went out to Creamer's Field, so we had cute backdrops of the field, the old barn, etc. It was so funny, because Luke was so unhappy, that the only smile we could get out of him was to get George to throw him up in the air, hand him off to Alan really quick and try to capture a smile before they did it all over again! It was a fun (and hot!) afternoon!!