Resurrection Bay/Seward, AK

We traveled down to Seward on Sunday, about a 2 1/2 hour drive from us, and went on a dinner cruise. We crusied on Resurrection Bay to Fox Island for dinner and saw the wildlife along the way. We were quite fortunate to see so much on the 3 hours tour. The weather was perfect and we saw Bald Eagles, Orca whales!!, & I saw a Puffin but didn't get a picture of him. This was a big deal to see the whales because people don't always get to. Even the crew and captain of our boat were freaking out because when we docked for the dinner the whales swam inland to our boat and under the dock, it was soooooo cool. I was in shock and didn't get a picture of it but I was standing on the dock and three were all in a line swimming straight at us.



On the boat ready to go!
And going...




Chris spotted this Eagle far off and then it flew right above our heads! I was just watching it and then was like, Oh I should take a picture! They said there are a pair of Eagles for every mile(?) I think of shore line in the bay. We saw another eagle in the nest on shore and I suppose this one was out getting their food.


The Whales!




Skipping rocks after supper.

What is sightseeing without buying a little something at the gift shops? Of course, for Roman lol One from Memaw Popham and one from his mommy :)

Matanuska Glacier

Chris's parents are in Alaska and we've been doing some sightseeing. This is the Matanuska Glacier. It is a couple hours drive northeast of where we live. It is a 27 mile long Glacier that goes back into the Chugach Mountains. You can go to a place and get on the glacier but its a little dangerous so we didn't go. In some spots they say it reaches 10,000 feet and at its widest is 4 miles. It used to occupy the entire valley you see here.



Also a pretty stream we saw along the way. The water is very blue and lovely which makes me believe it is glacier water.

It helps to click on the pictures to make it bigger so you can see the detail of things better.

Our Little Corner of the World

Finally a few pictures of our new casa. We live in a quad-plex, we got lucky and got one on the end and on the corner of the street.

This is the front arctic entry way...fancy for two doors I think lol

To the immediate right there is the front den (taken from above) Roman's rocking chair too that will go in his room later.

To the left are the stairs.


Straight ahead is the other den.

Off that is the kitchen.


And the dining area.


The upstairs are the bedrooms and laundry closet. Our room isn't much too look at right now. We still need a dresser and stuff so it looks bare.
This is Roman's room right next to our room.
There is Mr. Bear in the window waiting for the bees to get there so he can steal the honey. (I'm going to do his room in bees)

Everything is white and we aren't going to paint anything because we would have to paint it back white and that doesn't sound fun. We will only be here for 2 1/2 years so we decided "no".

Our Baby :o)

We are so excited! Had the 20 week ultrasound today and everything looked pretty good to me and the exciting thing is the baby is a BOY!! :o) Meet Roman Popham! His favorite things are kicking, sleeping, and working out with mama, and learning how to be a nurse from his mama too!

We Moved!

We moved yesterday onto base...Elmendorf AFB! I'm very excited because we have a lot more room!! I was walking down the stairs and looked out the window and there was a big black bear walking along just on the other side of the street. Today I got a card in the mail from Nick and Sara and at the end Nick wrote, "be careful the bears can smell the baby!" So I guess that's why the bear was coming around :) He was actually closer to our house than the pictures I was just watching the bear and forgot to run and get my camera until he got a little farther.

Alaska in the Spring/Summer!

We went to Whittier, which is a very small town on the ocean, on Saturday. This is where cruise ships stop and people get on the train or the bus and go to Anchorage or where ever they go! The big building in the background is the hotel and then they have a couple small cafe's and they do have a school. The road stops at this town and it is a tiny tiny town!


These pictures I took on the road along the way. The Glacier is a small one that sits next to the "beach". It is called Portage Lake. You can take a cruise around it and go look at the glaciers.


The waterfalls coming down the mountains are soooo cool!





I thought this was a cool photo op...the mountain is way taller than this but the clouds are covering it and the sun is shining so bright. It reminded me of Jurassic Park.

A tiny Baby :)

This is the only picture I have of my little baby :) We have it proudly displayed on our mantle. The baby is 8 wks old in the picture.

I am 14 weeks pregnant in this picture!

One potato, two potatoes!

I have been on a baked potato kick for a couple weeks now...all I want is a baked potato! Sooo, I've been baking them in the oven and it takes FOREVER, and then one day Chris pops it in the microwave and a few minutes later a soft, lovely potato. I guess I knew you could do this I just forgot. The things we learn from the husband lol I love Wendy's too right now! One, because they have baked potatoes and yesterday I had a spicy chicken sandwich for lunch and supper! Chris is on some sort of diet so he fixes all his meals so that leaves me to get whatever-so that is what I ate :) and it was lovely!
Stay tuned for next wednesday...baby doctor appointment! Hopefully I will get a new picture so I can post it :) I will be 12 weeks then!