More Colorado Pictures

This is one of the families that adopted Paul before he got married. Then eventually Cindy and the children. Very neat family from his church. They are taking good care of Paul and his kids. In fact, Paul told Tom that he had enough food in his freezer to last him and the kids for a year.

Lon playing with the children.
Then Paul resting with John. I think this pictures is precious.

The 3 brothers worked on the motor of the air condition for the house. They finally had get a new one. :o) They got it installed and things cooled off fast.

Jason posing for a picture.

Just for fun

You add what you want to these pictures. Just more pictures of when Brian and Mom Nogle were here.

Brian entertaining Vaughn and I on the 4th of July. He couldn't get away without doing at least one show for us.

My favorite color

Can you guess what my favorite color might be?... If you guessed fusha you are right. I got kind of carried away with pictures of our beautiful floweres we have in our yard, once I finally took time to "smell the roses". And boy did they smell good! I had given the big rose bush a "military hair cut" earlier in the summer, and I wasn't real sure how it was going to do this summer. But it looks pretty good to me. It looks like there will be lots more roses here very shortly! YEA! The colombines are doing pretty good also. Enjoy!

Beautiful Mountains & flowers

The mountains were covered with a beautiful blanket of clouds tonight. It just looks so soft and peaceful. We have had LOTS of clouds this summer. After seeing Laurie's pictures, of the clouds in Arizona, I decided to share some from Alaska. :o)

Here is another picture of one of my flowers blooming in our yard this summer. With all the rain we have had, I haven't even had to water them very often.

Little Birdies won't leave home

This was fun to come home to tonight.

These little birds, I call them swallows came back to their home. This is right out side our kitchen window, so we have been watching them grow this summer. They had already left the nest a few days ago, but...they returned tonight. We had never seen that before. :o)They were all nestled as close as they could to their home. Mom and dad kept flying around trying to get them to go with them, but they didn't for quit a while. The young sparrows were also flying around and trying to get in, but were not allowed. It was cute to watch. Tom got a pretty good video of it.

New Friends

We got to meet some neat people from New York today. They are Paul & Meg Bearce, our nephew's mom and dad. They are touring cross country in the 5th wheel and have been gone since mid June and will return to New York about Mid Sept?? (or whenever they get back) :o) It was great to show them around Anchorage and go out to dinner with them.

Colorado Trip

As most of you know our sister-n-law passed away July 1st. We're happy for Cindy that she is with the Lord now and not in pain any more. Paul will need continued pray and support as he raises his 2 young children.

Here are a few pictures from when we were down in Colorado with the family. It was difficult and yet good to be together.

Paul did the eulogy for Cindy and had Lonnie stand with him in case he could not finish. Paul introduced Lonnie as his "oldest son, I mean oldest brother." When the laughter stooped he was able to continue and do very well.

Paul has touched many lives in the church they attend and is receiving great support from the Lord through this church.

Here are some more pic from same trip

this is Denali the tallest mountain in North America over 21,000 ft high.

The boat that we were on has three turbo diesel motors that all together produce 1000 horse power through the three water jets. The boat can carry up to 50 people, we only had 14 on this trip. We went about 160 mil up the Sustina @ 30 miles an hour. In this video we are in class 4 rapids , looking at class 5 ,we stopped . We wanted to go on but the boat captain would not. Vaughn ,Brian and I, we had a wonderful time.

More pictures Brian in Alaska

Brian and his self portrait.

The mux ox at the zoo. Their long hair is combed ,cleaned and spun into very warm scarfs and sweaters.

Vaughn & Brian on their hike up McHugh Creek, (in the jungle).

Brian's Alaskan Vacation

BIG Gray whale on Kenai Fjord
Sea Otter just relaxing and eating as the boat goes by him.

A bunch of seaguls looking for food.

Steller Sea Lions in Seward, AK.

Brian overlooking the Seward bay.

Yes, it was cold and Brian was chilled to the bone, but did not want to miss anything, so he stayed outside to take it all in.