End of school sunshine!

This week was full of sunshine, sunshine and more sunshine!  So much sunshine that the dog took to laying out on the deck all day while we were at work - when usually we can hardly get her out the door in the morning to go potty.   My friend Shannon and I typically meet up to walk the dogs once I've got the kids in bed.  This was just one of the magnificent sunsets we saw this week.  Hard to believe this picture was taken at 9:30 at night! 

With so much sunshine, we just had to take a trip to the part one evening after work.  The kids both love to swing as evident by the pictures!

Papa teaching Leinna how to pump her legs in and out - she wasn't very confident about leaning back when she pumped her legs out - but I would bet by the end of summer she'll be a pro at the swing!

Lukkas just giggles the whole time and the higher the better for him!

I'm so thankful for the sunshine this week as it helped distract from the bitter sweet ending of the school year.  I'm going to miss my students and we celebrated the end of the year with a party and awards.  For confidentiality reasons, I can not post pictures- but I have the pictures burned in my mind.  Now it's time to focus on getting the house packed up and ready to move.  We are booked for the June 15th ferry!  Our plans are to rent a storage unit until we get back from our trip to Wisconsin and then we'll get moved into a rental house in Anchorage.  Our house in Cordova is still up in the air.  Leif and I did agree that we should get renters for the house if the house doesn't sell in the next week or two.  We do have renters who are interested but we also have a potential buyer coming to see the house for a 2nd time on Monday.  Ideally selling the house is what we'd like to have happen, but we are also thankful to have people interested in renting the house too!  We'll just have to see what happens this week.