I SAW SHAWN JOHNSON

For those of you who don't know who Shawn Johnson is, she is an olympic gold medalist in gymnastics and is from West Des Moines, IA... sooo after te olympics were over she had a big welcome home celebration that I took Shannon and Charlee to!!! Because we were sitting on an upper balcony the best pictures that we got were those that were taken of the big screen in the arena. But, yeah, we got to see her... it was pretty cool!!!

Matthews' New Home

upstairs bathroom
Charlee's Room, I finally get to put her pictures up:)
Charlee's vinyl above her door and if you look close, there are little nylon butterflies there too that are my favorite things
More for Charlee

Our bedroom is the blandest of all the rooms, but at leat our bed looks good with our new garage sale bed frame. across from our bed is a huge blank white wall, if anyone has any ideas of what to do with it, throw it at me!!!

Matthews' New Home

Here is the Kitchen, behind the living room...

Going upstairs we have a picture wall, we are ordering a vinyl saying that will say "...because a picture is worth a thousand words." which will go above the pictures.This is our black and white bathroom, these dots are actually door hanging bead things that i got at kohls and took them off of the door hangar thing and stuck them up on the wall... i think they turned out pretty cute...
bathroom sink...

cute huh...

Matthews' New Home

We tried to make a video and put it on the blog, but it was too long and so, instead here are a bunch of pictures...

i hope you like it:)

This is the Outside... It is a 3 layer town house

bottom garage, middle living room and kitchen, and top bedrooms and bathroom...
This is our little enry way thing... kinda cute... i like it
on the middle floor we have a half bathroom and this is part of it...

this is our living room

Seatt;e

Stovall Charters

More Halibut!

A couple of the high school kids from church "chartered" Reid and I for a day of Halibut fishing. We limited out (the limit is 2 halibut per person) on halibut with 8. We also caught a Coho salmon, 2 Bass, a Pink Salmon and some crab. The guys had a great time and were completely exhausted by the end of the day! Halibut fishing is not for the weak. Our biggest fish was only about 35 pounds, but it is really hard work to bring them up from the bottom, which was 350 feet down along with the weight of the gear and against the fight of the fish!

Only in Alaska

I took these pictures from the ferry on the way to Girl's Camp. We were in the middle of nowhere, outside of Petersburg and this guy was moving an old Forest Service rig on a little home-made barge that was just big enough to fit the vehicle. It was a good thing it was a nice day on the water!

Kind of gives a whole new meaning to island life. I wonder if U-Haul has a hard time making any money in Southeast Alaska because of our lack of roads!