A few pictures from Alaska

The following pictures are from our trip to Alaska that we took July 27th-August 12th. It was so nice to get to spend that time there with my family. The pictures are pretty scrambled because I haven't figured out how to get them on here the way I want to have them yet. This blogging thing is still kind of frustrating. Anyway, these should give you a general idea of our time in Alaska-hanging w/ parents, fishing, and playing with dogs...it was so relaxing. We loved every minute!! Above is myself and my mom right before we went out on Ressurection Bay.
Below is my mom and dad's new little baby-Lexie. She's so pathetic. She is so sweet too. She's a little boxer, which is nice for our older one-Chloe-because now she has someone to play with that knows all her tricks.
The two pictures below are of our little apartment in Robey Hall. This was our first home...in a boys dormitory. It was small and squishy, but it was home. While we were in Alaska we found our that we got the Resident Director position at the Carriage Town Homes off campus so now we have a three bedroom and two bathroom place that the school lets us stay in. It's really nice to have the space...especially for our little Connor who will be here in January. Anyway, we had to take some pictures to remember our Robey home by. :D

Below is my fantastic husband and my wonderful dad right be for a day out on the Kenai river for King Salmon fishing. Right there it was about 5am. We were in the water by 6am and were pretty much there until midnight. All day we only got one real good bite. I had the dang thing on for like 30 seconds before it snapped my line. I bet it was a world record fish too... :D
This little fish below is one of the only two fish that Jake was able to catch in Alaska. It was a cute little guy, but we sent him back out in the water to get bigger. :D
Below is an interesting scene. For those of you not from Alaska...this is a razor clam. We go out to the ocean, waiting for the tide to go out, which is easily predicted with a tide table. You wait for the tide to go out far enough and then you start to look for little dimples in the muddy sand that is left when the tide goes out. Then, you take your "clam gun" (which is an 8 inch wide in diameter metal cylinder) and shove it down in the mud over the dimple. You put your finger over the hole in the handle to create a suction and then you pull up the mud. The clams are so fast at digging deep into the mud that it usually takes three or four tries to actually reach the clam. When you've caught your limit of clams, you take them home and to expedite the cleaning process, you put them in boiling water for about a minute and a half just to get them to open their shells. Afterwards you open them and cut out anything that isn't white. The final product usually ends up taking FOREVER to clean, but if you have a good clam chowder recipie, then it makes it all worth it. YUM!!! Clamming is truly one of the funnest things you can do in Alaska!
This is Jake and I right before we went on the long voyage into Ressurection Bay in Seward, Alaska. The plan was for us to catch something, but once again...skunked...