Goodbye to June...already?

I can't believe how fast this month has flown by, in a few more hours it will by July! We've been busy having a lot of fun this month. Last week we drove up to Fairbanks to spend the week with Lee. We stayed in his hotel room with him, which is really more the size of an apartment. We played during the days while he worked, and then played some more in the evenings when he was done. It was like a little vacation for the boys and I, no cooking, no cleaning, just relaxing and finding fun things to do. Lee took us to a pump track he rides in Fairbanks and Dane just loved it. He's such a dare devil on his bike, he was riding it way faster and better than I could. Ty gave up after a minute and hopped off his bike and just started pushing it up and down the little hills. We found a little trail by the hotel that leads back to a lake and had fun exploring and throwing lots of rocks in the lake. We found some other fun attractions in Fairbanks, but we'll definitely have to go back because we didn't have enough time or sunshine to do all we wanted to do.
This is a picture of our family at the Mayor's Midnight Sun Half Marathon. Rita, Lori, Marci (my aunt), and Amy Abbott, my friend all ran the race two weeks ago. It was lots of fun, I can say that now that it's over. I didn't remember how many hills are on that course, it was more challenging than I remember, or maybe I am just getting old. It was Rita's first long race, a year ago she would have sworn never to do anything like that, in fact Lori and I have been bugging her for 9 years to run with us, finally she cracked and started running and is really really good at it. It was really fun to all run the race together!
On our way up to Fairbanks Ty decided to color all over himself, I have no idea why. Speaking of Ty, today the boys and I were making bread and I wanted to make a Jalepeno cheese braid. The boys helped me and we got it all together after some squishing and shaping I looked at it and said, "well that looks pretty good". Ty looked at it with a "not so sure" look and said "I think it looks like frap." I had to ask him to repeat because I wasn't completely sure he said that, but sure enough, he thought it looked like crap!

Last weekend we built on a new level to Dane & Ty's tree house. They spend hours in it playing house, dog, spaceship, etc.

Ty watering the flowers.
Today we spend the afternoon at my aunt Kay's house. She had a hot tub that she keeps warm for an Alaskan version of an outdoor swimming pool. The kids all love it and never want to leave her house!
Daisy really did love it, this picture wouldn't lead anyone to believe that though.