A Week of Videos

This started out as a video about Landry, but Greyson decided to bring me some flowers.  

Saturday we took a family trip over to Woody Island.  It was Greyson and Landry's first skiff ride.  

Woody Island! 

Greyson Kayaking 

First Trip to Woody Island in 2012

I think that Landry and Stephen look so much alike and when I turned my head and I saw them wearing the same hat with the same glazed look it was just too cute!

Greyson was more than happy to hop in a little kayak and be pushed and pulled around the lake on Woody Island. 

Family picture on Woody Island, Landry is there just sleeping:)

Landry slept like this on Stephen for almost 5 minutes, which is an eternity for LandryDon!  Oh and Greyson was taking the moss off the log and trying the dirt for taste.  He had a great time exploring all afternoon on Woody Island.  Stephen and I had to work to keep up with him, well until it was time to head back to the boat to go home, he would have much rather stayed.

Greyson Kayaking

Landry laying on some soft moss

I Love You!

We have been enjoying some incredible weather in Kodiak.  With all the sun, everyone walks around dancing!

Kodiak in the Summer

Greyson loves the garden.  He mostly loves eating what comes out of the garden though.  He has been eating a lot of spinach and had his first carrot yesterday. 

 Stephen leading circle time down in the field.  Great view!

Greyson, Landry and I make lots of trips to the beach.  Greyson has no fear and loves exploring everything the water has brought onto the beach.  He especially loves the kelp and how it feels.  What a little guy!  

Stephen really is the best camp director ever!

2 Months

12 lbs 4 oz 24 and a quarter long. So he's bigger than his brother was, but still not the biggest guy ever, but Landry Don is health and has a very strong set of lungs on him!  We are praying that like his brother he becomes a little happier at 3 months so I can go to bed before 1 am and stop bouncing all the time. 

Landry, like Greyson goes everywhere with us.  We just wrap him up and head outside rain or shine.  He responds a lot to faces and will coo and smile back at you, which makes the difficult crying times easier to deal with.   

Greyson of course loves his little brother and calls him "baby Landy(no R in there quite yet)

Bonfires, Backhoes and Boats

Greyson LOVES! marshmallows, even if they've fallend on the ground and are covered in dirt. 

Our wonderful friends Evan and Cindy and their three kids are in Kodiak for 5 weeks and it is so wondeful to catch up.  It's hard to believe it had been a year since seeing them last.

Everyday to get to and from our home we go by a bunch of Greyson's favorite things.  The backhoe was out the other day and he had to sit for just a bit. 

We always count the boats to and from our house as well.  He played until Landry started crying on this boat.  Just pretending I so love his imagination!

Happy Boys!

Landry at 8 weeks and Greyson enjoying the swing behind our house.  

Personality!

Well Landry has been a challenge to say the least.  He really isn't a happy baby and whenever he is awake I feel like he's crying or on the verge.  Well this past week or so he ask actually started smiling and it has been wonderful!  He still crys a lot, but if I can have 5 minutes of him being pleasant, it makes the 4 of crying not so bad. 

Our 8th Summer in Kodiak

greyson taking a walk on the trail
 behind our house

Stephen making the above video with the staff

Erik teaching greyson how to climb

Supper with the summer staff

filming the rock scene

I heard someone say once while in college that when you become a Christian Jesus doesn't promise that your life will be easy, but it WILL be better. I think about that often as Stephen and I continue on this incredible journey the Lord has put us on. This past year has been full of highs and lows and change has been the only real constant we've had. I was looking over one of those stress tests that puts a number value on each stressful event that happens in a year. Well Stephen and I have topped the chart and we're still smiling. It really has shown us that while I say change is the only constant our foundation is set on Jesus Christ. He equals out the stress, but we just have to remember to stay focused on HIM and not what else is happening in our lives. Anyway with all that said. We have moved and started summer camp for the 8th time! Stephen is the guy in charge and of course is doing amazing. He did tell me though he wasn't used to having to depend on quite so many other people. Greyson, Landry and I have been along for the ride helping as much as we can. I do love that our boys do everything with us and I often times find myself carrying both around, Landry in the wrap and Greyson on my hip. I am tired a lot, but I wouldn't want it any other way. Greyson gets to see Stephen and I working each day with each other, other staff, kids and parents. But best of all he gets to see us all laugh and play together. He is also so outgoing it has been such a blessing to see him reach people and children we could never. Here are some pictures from our summer staff and Stephen putting together the summer video for the kids.

A New Bed!

So the last few nights Greyson has not been sleeping well. We knew that his crib was getting to small for him, but Stephen and I both determined somewhere between 2 and 5 am that Greyson needed new sleeping arrangements. Last week we were able to find a great loft bed for him from a Coast Guard family moving off island, but he's just not ready for up high sleeping. Anyway, a plan was made to get him a toddler bed the next day. Well as I was telling my story to Marilyn and Heather, two friends from church Heather offered her sons old race car bed. Of coruse I was very excited and she brought it over and even helped put it together. Greyson was extremely excited to say the least and to my great suprise he went right to sleep in it. No fighting him at all, praise the Lord! But with all the excitement I did still think about how my little boy is growing up. Heather's son is going to be a freshman in highschool in the fall and he's much taller than her and even his dad. Oh, I pray these years go slow.

The Deadliest Catch and My Sister

My sister LOVES Deadliest Catch, it's a show about crab fishing in the Bering Sea. Well Kodiak is the home for a few of these boats. Also it really is amazing how big these boats are and yet when I look over the ocean just how small they are! For for my sister I will be keeping my eye out for the Deadliest Catch boats and taking pictures, until she can come up and do it for herself!:)