Kincaid Park Secret Beach

Memorial Day Jon, Kyla and I went on a walk at Kincaid Park down to the secret beach. The weather was beutiful, it was sunny with not a cloud in the sky and the temperature was near 70 degrees. The half an hour walk to the beach was very nice, Kyla did well hiking down there and collected a bouquet of dandelions on the way there. Once we got down to the beach we found a sandy area to sit down and have a picnic on the beach.

Where we went is the beach of the inlet. We made sure to go when the tide was out to be safe, you can only play around out there when the tide is out and you have to be sure to leave before high tide. With the tide out we were able to go walk around in the mud and some shallow water. Kyla loved the warm slippery mud on her feet and had a lot of fun wading in the water. The hot weather wore Kyla out and Jon had to carry her back to the car, uphill the entire way.

We had a lot of fun at Kincaid and before we even had left Kyla was asking to come back again. She really liked the mud and water. It did not even feel like we were in Alaska while we were sitting on the beach in swimsuits in hot weather.

Playing at Grandma's House

Kyla loves to play with Grandma in the greenhouse and outside in the yard. She has been helping plant all the vegetables in the garden and greenhouse, water the plants and even helped weed the flower beds. Kyla helped plants the carrots, radishes, turnips, potatoes, onions, beets, peas, broccoli, cauliflower and zucchini in the garden.

We have had very nice weather the past two weeks and I have not been babysitting Ethan and Ella the last two weeks either, so we have spent lots of time over at Grandma's playing outside. She loves going over to play in her sandbox, water table, swimming pool, ride around on her bike or in her car and play yard games.

Huffman Park

Kyla LOVES to go to parks so much!!! We go to a park almost everyday and Kyla is usually the one who decides which park we go to. We went to Huffman Elementary Park for her first time this weekend, Huffman is where I went to Elementary School. Kyla had a lot of fun at the park and Grandma came with us. Kyla had a great time going up and down all of the slide, she always plays with older kids at the park and has learned from them how fun it is to go up the slides.

Kyla really liked climbing up everything at the park, she loves climbing up all the fun ladders and fun things on the play structures. They had a toy that was a large circle with all different levels of platforms to climb around on. Kyla loved it, she climbed on that going around and around and around again. She has such a great time every time we go to the park, but you can not get her to leave without carrying her to the car kicking and screaming.

Baby Polar Bear

Kyla and I went to the zoo today to see the baby polar bear that they have been caring for. The polar bear was found on the North Slope and had been seperated from it's mom. It was found about a month ago and only weighed 15 pounds. It has been at the zoo for a little while but they just started letting visitors see it on thursday for just one hour twice a day. It was such a cute and fun bear to watch. It was having a great time playing with all of it's toys and was tumbling all over the place. Kyla thought it was so funny playing with it's potato sack, it would throw it up in the air, climb inside it and roll itself up in it. We had so much fun watching the baby bear and already want to go back to see it again. The bear will be moved to Louisville, Kentucky as soon as they finish their new polar bear exhibit and will be paired with another baby polar bear.

Fun Day with Cousins in Palmer

We spent the day in Palmer with family and had a great time! We visited with my cousins Susie, Emily, Rosie, Sydne and her husband Ryan (who were visiting from Texas) and Emily's four childen and Sydne's baby. They had the pool rented out for an hour to play in the pool with the kids. Kyla had not been swimming since last summer, but had a great time in the water. She stayed in the pool for the full time we were there. she really liked being in the shallow area where she could stand and play with toys. When we got out of the water she told me she wanted to come back another day. I think we will try taking her to the pool closer to our house occasionally and maybe even try swim lessons again soon. There is also a great indoor waterpark near us that I want to go to soon.

After swimming and a snack we went over to the Stable where my cousin Susie works and boards her horse Skyler. The kids got to walk around and look at all the horses in the stable and then they got the horses Skyler and Bonnie brushed and saddled up for a ride. All of the kids got to take turns riding the horses two at a time. This was the first time that Kyla has rode a horse, she has always just rode ponies before. She was very happy and excited to ride Skyler, but during the ride was very serious and quiet. We had such a good time visiting with everyone and meeting Sydne's son Bradley. The weather was great too, it was 77 degrees when we got into the car to go home. We can't wait to visit with them again and go for another ride on Susie's horse when my sister is in town with her kids.