Alaska Guyers - It's a Wonderful Life

1.5.08

SPRING IN ALASKA

April 25th, 2008

When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade!

When Alaska gives you 16 inches of snow in April, make an awesome snowman!!

3.4.08

Here we see the wonderful thought process of a six year old

Mitchell said one day, "I had a dream that I was so thirsty and I got myself a drink in my dream, but when I woke up I was still thirsty."

Days later (after much serious thought I'm sure)....

Mitchell says, "In Heaven, if I had a dream about being thirsty and getting a drink, do you think I would not be thirsty when I woke up?"

Mommy says, "That's a great question Mitchell, I don't know"

Mitchell's reply, "I bet Grandpa knows"

WE'RE IN BIG TROUBLE!!

Well, it finally happened. I knew this day would come, I just didn't expect it so soon. Scott has been warning me for years that when he was young he would come home after school and build himself an enormous sandwich (just for a little snack, of course) and then consume a full dinner just one hour later.

Mitchell came home from school yesterday and said, "Mom, can I have a sandwich?" With my jaw on the floor and my eyes as large a dinner plates, my shocked reply was, "Really?"

With Mitchell at only a mere 6 years old, I started thinking about what life will be like when he's 15 (and brings friends home)!!!!! I guess I will be spending my days at Costco in an effort to keep the fridge stocked!

25.3.08

Preschool Field Trip

Quinn's Preschool went to the Imaginarium, a science discovery center. They saw newly hatched chicks and had the opportunity to hold them. Quinn didn't want to because he said they were too prickly.

Quinn had a great time with his buddy Shane!

Easter Party!

24.3.08

Happy Easter

Mitchell and Quinn found baskets on Easter morning filled with lots of little toys including clay, sunglasses, wooden airplanes, stickers and new coloring books.

It's called "Galactic Putty" and it's slimy and gooey and little boys just love it!

The Easter Baskets contained some cool new shades!!

11.3.08

Happy 4th Birthday Quinn

Once again, Scott went to work on creating a Birthday masterpiece. Complete with trees and dinosaurs fleeing the hot lava, the volcano cake was a real crowd pleaser.

Opening the presents became a flurry of excited chaos, with paper and ribbons flying. Of course, all the other little party-goers wanted to assist in the unwrapping. The high energy might have had something to do with mass-consumption of volcano cake!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Mitchell's Kindergarten class celebrated Dr. Seuss' Birthday all week. They had a musical production, a green breakfast, many art projects and of course, lots and lots of Dr. Seuss books!!

Quinn's preschool also celebrated with a Pajama day, a delicious snack of green eggs and ham and they too read lots of Dr. Seuss stories!

20.2.08

Mitchell was very excited to have a visit at school from some of the members of the Alaska ACES

hockey team. He wore his ACES hockey jersey and was thinking about the big day all week. They sat in the library (in their handmade 'Library shirts') while ACES member "Cheeseman" read stories to them. What a great day!

18.2.08

COOKIES

It was late afternoon on President's Day when Scott, having the day off, decided it would be a fine time to make cookies. He wasn't interested in making just any old cookies however. He thought sugar cookies (track cookies to the boys) with frosting on top, in the shape of dinosuars no less, was the order of the day! Well the boys do love to make cookies, and now with the addition of frosting, this cookie making idea became a very exciting event! Daddy always turns something so ordinary into a grand event and something to be remembered for quite some time. And so it was with the President's Day dinosaur cookie event!