I did it!!!

Well, I had a meeting with all the bosses at the Preschool this week and accepted the job as Director of the Preschool. I have been meeting with the interim Director this week and learning some of the things my new position has me doing. I will still be teaching one class a day either in the morning or the afternoon and then taking care of my responsibilities as Director the other part of the day. I am getting excited to see what the year holds for us. I will still have Quincy with me all the time and am so grateful that I can do that. I was so lucky to have found this place to work where I can have her with me all day and she gets free preschool out of the deal. I will have to finish up my Bachelors Degree along the way to be in compliance with state regulations. But as long as I am working towards it, all will be good. We have a college right here in Kodiak that I can get some classes through and the others I can take online. So that will be a good thing, I am excited to go back to school again. So anyways, that is the latest at the Morrison home. :)

Octopus anyone?!?

Ken and Cole went out fishing for halibut on Friday and in the process this HUGE octopus jumped on one of the lines and they pulled him in. Ken decided to keep him and see what octopus tasted like.

Here he is sitting in the sink getting cleaned up and ready to cook.

All clean waiting in the bowl to be thrown in the pot. This thing was just massive!!!

Cooking away!! We talked to a couple of locals to find out what we do with an octopus and were told to boil it for a few minutes and then put it in an ice bath for a few minutes and then back to the boiling water, over and over for an hour and a half. If you don't it is like chewing on a garden hose!! So we did and it was pretty tender and tasted so yummy!! The boys tried it and said it wasn't too bad, the girls ran screaming!!! After the cooking, all the skin and suction cup things just peeled right off, so don't worry, we didn't eat that part!! It was the most amazingly built animal I have seen! I now know why they are soooo strong. So cool!!!!

Now we are going to pickle some, put some into a chowder, and smoke some. So we will keep you updated!!

Friends, Beach, Fun

We found a super fun beach for the 4th of July! Our friend Ashley came with us with her 2 kids and their dog Marley. We hiked back along this beautiful trail, lots of trees covered in green moss and the ground was all green with the moss as well. So pretty. It looked as though someone had taken a green fuzzy blanket and draped it over everything. I love it!! That is how most of Kodiak is.

All along the beach is this rock wall that has the neatest striations all along it. The kids thought it was fun to climb on and Quincy sat down to take a break and let me snap some pictures of her. She sure is growing up soooo quickly! And she lets me know it most days. :)

Myah was a more difficult subject to shoot for her dear old Mom! This was the last in a series of photos with her hands in front of her face. She finally said, "Okay, CHEESE!!!!!"

Dylan was just happy to be in the water and sand. He is so happy go lucky about most everything. He loved looking for sea shells which wasn't hard to do on this beach. It was covered in them. So his goal this time was to find the biggest one that wasn't broken. He found one the size of a dinner plate that wasn't broken and was soooo excited.

Colton took a little Spiderman fishing pole and cast it out into the surf after we saw a bunch of seals out there swimming and then a bunch of salmon jumping up around them. Luckily the only thing that grabbed ahold of his tiny pole was this little sculpin. But it was exciting none the less that he caught something with the tiny pole in the surf.

Our hike out, so pretty!!

We had a great 4th of July out on the beach soaking in the sunshine.

Hope you had a great one too!!!

July the 3rd

We went over to our friends Will and Ashley's for the 3rd of July. (Ashley is Lori Warnicks niece!!! Crazy small world!) Anyways, had sooo much fun.

The kids all going nuts on the trampoline, courtesy of Will!!
Ashley reminded me about the good old days back at girls camp when she whipped out the bananas, chocolate, and marshmallows to make banana boats in the the fire! Holy smokes, I can't believe I had forgotten about them and all their gooey goodness. (I know the picture just doesn't do it justice!)

Then we had to do sparklers!

This is at 11:30 pm while we were waiting for the city fireworks display to start at midnight. Yes, it is still light out!!

And Ashley, her son Liam, Quincy and doggie Marley watching the Kodiak fireworks. Such a fun firework display! This is how we kick off the 4th of July, because of the sun not going to bed before midnight. So it technically was the 4th, but we went to sleep between activities. :)