Just a little update...

...will post pictures later...

Ethan returned from the villages without weather delay. He loved his time out there and from what I've heard he did a great job of leading during the VBS. One of the big highlights for him though was actually flying the plane. On the return to Homer he got be co-pilot and help fly the airplane...nothing could satisfy that boy more than flying a small plane! When he gets pictures a disc of pictures from their time in the villages, I will have him post more of his adventure.

Alaska is baking!! We have had some amazingly "HOT" temps, well maybe not hot for the rest of the world, but hot for Alaska! We are loving the heat even though it means hours and hours of watering the garden. If we can manage to keep it watered we will have a wonderful garden as the heat is making all our vegetables grow like crazy! We are already enjoying broccoli, yellow squash, tomatoes, radishes, and lots of herbs.

We have a new member in the critter department of the Veldstra household. Steve and I have been tossing around the idea of raising a few rabbits, but hadn't done anything about it. A couple days ago my mom called to tell me that dad had caught a baby bunny...were we still interested in raising rabbits? Well, since he caught it...sure why not!? Since this little bunny was wild it really didn't have much interest in being loved by a family of 8...but didn't take more than about 24 hours for the bunny to tolerate a little petting. We originally thought the rabbit was a domestic rabbit let loose, but we are now fairly certain it is a wild rabbit(snowshoe hare). It has the right coloring for a wild rabbit and large hind legs and feet which have amazing jumping ability! Anyways bunny has a name...Camo, and is figuring out that being loved by many hands is not too bad!