Sept. 24th, first day of snow !

Mommy is sweeping all the snow off my swings and toys

Daddy is instructing a mushing clinic this weekend. I love it!

winter is almost here and I can't wait to make snowballs and snow angels. I was so excited about it when I woke up to the snow. I said Mommy! Daddy!I want to go outside and make snow balls! we have friend here visiting, people here for the musher clinic and people back in the cabins. after this busy weekend, my daddy is going to finish the outside of our big house here at Maclaren. Next year, mommy says I can have my own library in the house and we will have so much more room, my friends can come visit and stay with us for slumber parties and craft parties. right now, I have to go and we're going to make cookies for our friends. bye.

JONA

Fall is here

I can count up to 25!

we roll all the coins saved from my egg and jam stand every other week, it's so much fun!

Me and ONE of my many favorite dogs, Patsy Ann!

My other favorite, Ethan. Even when he's sleeping, I like to pet his ears gently.

Bridle comes in to visit and always hops right on the couch!!!

YAY!!!!! I counted ALL the oranges all by my self.

counting Caribou Tracks!!!!!!  I LOVE counting tracks!

Let's go count birds!

We looked for birds and didn't see much today!

Coming back and running dogs with my mommy is great fun!!

When mommy is cleaning the rental cabins, I like to sit in the tundra and pick berries

she says I am the best and I think she is the best. I love my mommy!!!!!!

but we both think DADDY is the Greatest daddy in the whole world. Here's our moose for the year! Thanks Daddy for working so hard for us.

I help mommy fold towels for the shower house, I like to help.

When we go to town, I love drinking water from the water fountain.

Mommy and Daddy tell me I have to wait for my birthday cake till I turn 3 but I keep asking them if I can have one sooner...I hope to have a big one with chocolate on it.

Soon we will be moving back to our Paxson house and setting up for winter. It's so pretty there. I like it there, a lot. Mommy will be running dogs around the clock and Daddy is writing for the Anchorage Daily News. Mommy is running many races, all the ones I can think of. That's alot of races. And I get to go to them all. Mommy has many friends and sponsors visiting this winter, too, they want to meet our family and mommy's dogs. I get to use my passport, too in Feb for one of mommy's races, I'm looking forward to that. I was just a baby when I got my passport.

We will ski together once we have snow. I started learning last winter on the frozen Paxson Lake and will be better this winter on my feet. My Birthday is coming up in November and I can't hardly wait to have a little party and cake and balloons with my family and friends and dogs. I really want a bunny.

I will be going to a Montessori class once a week in Delta. My mommy taught the Montessori way many years ago and says she applies this to our daily life already, going to a class once a week will be fun I think because I will meet new friends, too.    hope you are having a nice summer or fall season, where ever you are reading this from. your friend,

JONA

half sisters Madi and Alison on their visit, learning all kinds of new things

running dogs, too. Madi and Allison with Jericho

Play, Play Play....

puddle fun

going to pick berries after dinner

retired sled sled dog, Phoebe,  is going to join us

picking berries with Maudie

setting up camp

west fork of the Maclaren River

my best dogs, Ethan & Maudie

Mommy taking me up the big gravel hill with puppies, Tread, Bearing and Axle

Bearing and Tread in the water for the very first time

I found the bestest stick ever!!!!!  

BYE for now!! JONA!

summer days

visiting the Fairbanks Animal Shelter this summer. I love the dogs so much. Mom talks to them, I blow them kisses. We almost came home with a few new dogs, little dogs you can keep on your lap...but we didn't.

going for an evening walk with mommy!

this little FOX was so cute, it really liked us. She came right up to see my mommy!

Higher, Higher!

Oh, I miss my daddy, He's fishing right now but we will see him soon. we are flying out to his boat very soon and we will go camping on our  nice boat, it has everything on it! We will go fishing, too and look for bears on the beach and beach comb on other beaches for treasures.

Roasting marshmallows!

Air Hockey is so much fun and we can play all the time now!

Daddy is making a nice cap fire on our camping trip!

we love the park in Girdwood!

wet and slimy. yay!!!!!!!!

LOOK! I see something!!!!!

hope you're having a nice summer, too.

Hi there!

Back on the Denali, I love to go for rides with my mom on the atv, we love to hike around, too exploring.

camping in Seward this spring, it was a lot of fun!!!

our camp in Valdez, life is good!

back at our Denali Highway Cabins

mommy and daddy bought a huge trampoline, fun to bounce!

helping mom with dog lines, i love to take pictures of the dogs, I know almost all of them by name!!

we have 5 laying hens, i have my own business selling eggs. it's great! i make .30 per egg, goes into my savings!

spending time hiking is one of my favorite things to do! we go to town about once a week to see friends and do town things but my favorite thing is being in the forrest or high up in the tundra exploring and looking for Swans!!