Last Week of School!

YAHOO!!!! We completed our last full week of school and with just 4 days next week with students and then Friday is check out, it's really feeling like summer already.   We are looking forward to June - just doing our thing while Papa works summer school, and then July heading to a Jacobsen family reunion in Montana.  Promises to be a busy summer, but a fun summer!

Mother's Day at Eklutna Lake

Just about 45 minutes from our back yard is this beautiful place. Eklutna Lake is a glacier fed lake - so that water is VERY cold - but the sun was shining and we enjoyed our day.

The kids (yes all 3 of them) had a great time throwing rocks into the water.

After our trip my Mother's Day request was that we stop for ice cream at Cold Stone. 

YUMMY!!!

We grilled some chicken for dinner and then took the kids out for their first bike ride.

It sure was a wonderful day - being out in nature and enjoying time with my family - couldn't ask for anything more.

The end of the school year is always such a stressful time - between making sure students have missing work in, to finalizing my special education paperwork, to just the craziness of the students behavior.  SO - Tuesday nights a ladies hiking group from church meets at 7pm to do some of the local trails.  I need to decompress and since Leif is done with track now and home in the evenings, I decided to go for a hike with the church ladies.

The trail head was just about 15 minutes from Eagle River called Mile High.  We didn't really climb a mile high, but the views were spectacular!

This was one of my favorites because you could see the south side of Eagle River and then all the way to the City of Anchorage sky line.  It was breath taking.   I love that this picture is at 8:30pm! We are having such an amazing spring here in Alaska!!

Update on Grandma Arlene:  They ended up transferring her to Duluth to be closer to specialist.  They had to put her on a ventilator to help get her vitals under control.  They did determine that her pancreas is inflamed but the doctors are not sure what's causing it.  Grandma was able to breath on her own for a couple hours at a time yesterday, so they are hoping to remove the ventilator soon.  My mom had a few days left to finish at her job, and then she can give 100% of her attention to helping Grandma.  Again, thank you for your prayers and continued prayers!!