Time for some relaxation!

My apologies to my fellow blog followers- it's been a busy couple of weeks!

On Saturday, June 15th we left Cordova.  We weren't able to get into our rental place in Eagle River until Tuesday night, so we spent some time with our friend Ruth.  This was "normal" for the kiddos since we usually stay with Ruth when we were in town. 

Tuesday night we ended up highering a couple of guys from the moving company pictured. Highly recommend them and it was money well spent.  We were able to get the UHaul unloaded and all the major furniture in the correct rooms in 2 hours!!

 

 

 We didn't get to spend much time at our new house. Tuesday night I went back after putting kids to bed at Ruth's house and stayed up late getting the kitchen all unpacked.  That's just a job that you really have to not be interrupted.  Then on Wednesday we spent the full day at the house organizing and getting all the rooms set up the way we wanted.  I'm sorry I don't have more specific pictures- but I will post some when we get back to Alaska.

 

 

Thursday we headed to Fairbanks. It was beautiful drive and Denali was soaring into the sky! It was such a beautiful sight- I don't think this phone picture does it justice.  We spent Thursday night in Fairbanks and then Friday night at 11:45pm we loaded the family up and headed to the airport for our month long trip to Wisconsin to see my family.   I thought that a 1:05am departure to Seattle would mean the kids would fall right back to sleep - WRONG! Leinna is a great traveler - Lukkas - well, let's just be thankful that he's still here :o)  He DOES NOT like to fly and he made sure that everyone on the airplane knew it!  So, it was a very long flight to Seattle and we arrived at 6 am.  We had a long lay over until our flight to Minneapolis - also by design.  I planned it so the kids would eat breakfast, we could walk around and play, eat lunch and walk around and play some more to be worn out for the next flight.

Leinna loved the "little train" between the different concourses at the airport.

 

 

 

We did good with the eating, playing and walking around (pictures above from the playroom at the Seattle airport).  We boarded our flight with high hopes of both kids taking a nap.  Leinna understood and slept the entire flight to Minneapolis.  Lukkas- well, we at least got an hour of sleep and then the rest of the flight - 2+ hours worth- was him screaming his lungs out.  Poor kid was hoarse by the time we landed.  I tried everything I could think of to help him - but he just doesn't like to fly!  I don't believe in "drugging" kids with a little Benadryl before traveling - but I may just have to for everyone sanity when we fly back to Alaska at the end of July. 

 

 In the meantime - we are all happy to be settling into a routine in Wisconsin.  My brother and nephews are here this week too! So fun to have everyone all together.  We've been swimming in the lake, helping Grandpa feed the cows, to the park and 4-wheeler rides. One of the favorites is riding around in the wagon :o)

 

 

I will be posting more pictures of our fun adventures. Thank you for checking in and I'll do my best to get back to my weekly updates!  Until next time - smile at a stranger- it may just make their day :o)