Well, I wanted to put on some of my favorite pics, but I don't know what the deal is. The internet connection we're using isn't cooperating now.

There was a crazy rain storm Friday night. I've never heard rain like it before. You know the quick, fierce summer rainstorms we get in Utah? Well it was about 10 times worse and lasted hours. We had a 5 gallon bucket outside, and it got completely filled up in about 3 hours. I wanted to take a video of it. It began at 3 am. Of course, it's daylight here at 3 am, so I wanted to video the trees swaying and the sound of the rain. It would have been cool, but I was too lazy to get out of bed.
Other than Bryce seeing that one black bear a couple weeks ago, we haven't seen much wildlife. A couple porcupines, squirrels, nothing too exciting. We see dozens of bald eagles everyday, but up here, they're as common as sea gulls in Utah. I do have to say, if I go the whole summer without seeing a bear, I won't be too disappointed. I'm a tad scared of them. I bought a can of bear spray (basically concentrated pepper spray). Usually it's just me and Drake, so if I saw one then, I'd freak.

I did realize the other day that I'm already starting to take Alaska's beautiful scenery for granted. I drive down the road, and there's countless waterfalls coming down sheer cliffs between lush, green, forested, towering mountains. But when I drive by it everyday, I am in awe less and less. Stupid humans and our stupid short attention spans. We live at the base of the glacier for crying out loud, and I see it and think "Oh yeah, there's the glacier again." I have to remind myself this may be the only time in my life I get a chance to be in Alaska.

We've met a lot of cool people from all over the world. An older couple from Holland have been hanging out with us. They say if their children knew they had to hang their food in trees to keep it from bears, they'd be worried sick. There's also a couple from Germany here now. They have a 5 year old son that Drake's been playing with. They just moved to America a couple years ago. They've taken their son backpacking all over SE Alaska for weeks. Pretty adventurous! There's a lot of great people here, but they come and go. The tree-chopping, glass-smashing, chain-smoking parties come every weekend. I can't get over how ironic it is that Bryce and I have to go bust parties and ask them to quiet down. I giggle every time I do it, with my green "Forest Service Volunteer" hat on. We'll have to get our Volunteer outfits on and take a pic. It's so funny.

Hi everyone, we are partying at the pirate house tonight so this will be short. Here are some new pics... hope everyone is doing well, we are at the half way point right now. We had a wicked Juneau rain storm last night, holy rip! Good stuff.

I took drake fishn, here is one of the big ones he caught. This is a video of a mulan, basically the water will cut a hole down through the glacier, we dropped a rock in and you can count how long it takes to hit the bottom below (its like 3 seconds). Pretty cool...This mulan is probably 100 feet deep, you never know how far they go down. Its funny because the tourists don't really understand how dangerous the glacier actually is, you fall into something like this and yer "ded" dead! There is a couple photos from my flight out to the gold mine north of Juneau, its kinda hard to take pics and fly... but I did get some.

Hi, hope everyone is doing well. Here are the latest pics. Drake says hi to all cousins and friends. Drakes favorite thing this week is learning new tricks on his bike. He can wheelie, do no feet and he can do no fingers (that one cracks me up)! Oh yeah, I almost t-boned a black bear on my bike on tuesday, we had a staring contest at 15 feet and I guess I won cause he got out of my way... anywho no sappy crap from me... Peace

Evolution

Life is good. I had forgotten how sweet it was because I was always busy running to the store, doing laundry, going to work, you know, the standard everyday crap. I forgot what life is really about when I was distracted by those errands. Getting down to the basics makes me appreciate everything more. I know it's super cheesy. Living in a pop up camper isn't what I want to do for the rest of our lives, but it's so relaxing and, surprisingly, energizing. I love to hang out in the forest, chill with my 2 berries and drink good beer. That's the part of life that's good.
It's easy living in a camper, knowing I'm going back to my nice, warm home in a couple months and we'll be surrounded by people we love and want to hang out with. Of course, there's the stuff I miss. I really miss my dad. I start to tear up every time I think about him. I miss him. I miss all you guys too. And I can say that, knowing who I'm speaking to, because the people that care about us are you guys-the ones reading this blog. I wish I could show you all the things we're seeing and experiencing. We try through the blog, but you really can't see it.
I truly hope that Drake remembers this most of all. I know he's around the age that he'll have memories when he's an adult, but I can't be sure, you know. It's not just Alaska that I want him to remember, but this unpredictable adventure that we're having. And how we're all so close right now. That's another thing everyday life drowns out.
I know I'll be a different person after this trip.

Well after a very stressful weekend, moving in to the campground and what not we are trying to get things dialed in. We had a crazy weekend, there were some crazy Juneau teeny boppers causing a ruckus in the campground so I had to lay the smack down and call the po po. I got about two hours of sleep the first night and four on Sunday night. But it has quieted down since then. The campground is so nice, the Mendenhall Glacier is our back yard, there are chunks of ice the size of our house floating in the lake off of the glacier. The fam is doing well, trying to get through another transitional phase with the Drakester. He learned to ride his bike without his training wheels on Wed. We are so proud of him, he is cruising around the campground on his little bike, now if I could just keep the tires inflated! All he wants to do is go for bike rides which is cool with us except I am biking to work now and put in 12 miles a day the last thing I want to do is go on a bike ride, but of course I go anyway just to watch him ride. I will try to put a vid on here of him riding. There are some random pics of Drake and different glaciers that I have flown to in the past week, also a nice pic of the Juneau icefield. Well that is about all I can tolerate for tonight... later

We're gonna be campground hosts

My parents are gone. I miss them, seriously. It was pretty sweet hanging out with them. I was really getting used to it.
Now Bryce and I are getting ready to move to the campground. We're both stoked. We made an offer on the camper and they accepted it. Everything is working out. Whenever things work out for us, I'm always cautious though. After all, we are Frankenberry's. So, if you're feeling like throwing some good thoughts this way, it probably wouldn't hurt.
Drake says he misses everyone in Utah. He says he misses all his friends. We miss you all too.