These pictures were taken in Seattle with my mom and grandma for Spring Break. Before I get to the pictures, let me tell you that the St Patrick's Day parade was a total disaster! Because when we got to the parade, it started to sprinkle a little bit. But right about when the parade started rain was comming down like there was no tomorrow. I kept telling my mom that we would have to leave soon so we wouldn't have to stay inside because her leg was hurting.

The pictures are when I was at the Seattle Glass Blowing studio, where I made a little baby dragon, if you look closely into the small ball of glass you will actually see the head of the dragon is red and the body is orange and the tail is a mix of orange/red. The big volleyball shaped glass ball was blown to be whatever, and as you can see it's only orange and red, instead of a dragon body.

My snowboarding lessons are going great! I'm being taught by a future X-game champion! The last 2 weeks he has been snowboarding to qualify for the x-games. He is teaching me how to do a 180 and a back flip.

I got a new ipod nano "SWEET"! Which is grey with a really nice rubber case, which is also very cool. I must thank MJ (which is Jan) for buying me the ipod. When I was flying home I got delayed for 2 hours on the runway, sitting on the plane! We finally took off 2 hours later than I was supposed to but it wasn't a problem because I had my DS and my ipod.

love you all! miss you all! hope to see you all very soon!

Lee

These pics were taken in Seward after a ton of rain.....we had other shots of the waterfall, but they didn't really show how big and awesome it was! Well with a tiny little Bret beside it...you sure get an idea of the awesome beauty that we see every day here in Alaska....the top photo speaks for itself...."oyster anyone?

Hi folks, I'm home from far away! I love the new job, the rig is much bigger. I work on an island 7 miles out to sea, haven't seen a polar bear yet, but I'm still looking. I had to climb to the top of the derrick, it was 150 feet up in the sky. I can now say that i've done it and WON'T be doing it again any time soon. Break up is here and summer is just around the corner. Can't wait, will send photos.

Bret

Hi guys this is Jan....
As Bret said break up is definately here! Yeah! Our temps are haning in the 50's and 40's everyday. We had a couple days and nights of rain, which made quick work at making our snow disappear. There is still some snow here and there but the grass is visible and even getting a green tinge to it.
Our days are getting longer and longer we're close to 14 hours of day light and June 21st is still a long ways off. It certainly is nice to drive to work in the sun and not have it go down until well past 9pm.
Lee is in his last 6 weeks of school and is definately got spring fever. Keeping him focused on his work has been a chore....but who could blame him?! Snowboarding ended this past weekend which is sad for Lee....he has almost perfected his 180' jump...yup folks with only a month of snowboarding under his belt he is starting to learn tricks on the half pipe! Pretty cool huh.
As for me work has remained hectic, and I'm still not sure where things stand with my possible new job. I do my last week of green belt training this month....and I can't wait to get moving on to bigger and better horizons.
I'll have Lee write something about his trip to Seattle this week....we keep meaning to do it...but then the sunshine ends up pulling us outdoors! We'll try to post a couple pics too.

hope all is well! And a big CONGRATS TO KAREN AND DEAN! who are expecting twins this summer! woo hoo!

Love you all more than we can say! stay in touch....we love the comments that you post!

As always
Bret-Jan-Lee