This is Aerin, the tied for first place winner of the Nenana River Daze pie eating contest!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The Nenana Patchers made a quilt for a lady going through chemo and radiation, (I made the block in the upper right hand corner) and we presented it to her last Thursday at a lunch party.
We were able to go on a riverboat ride the day after school got out,
and this is where Ethan spent most of the ride! He was watching the paddle wheel.
Here is a current photo of our little family. We had such a great time!
Aerin and I saw sandhill cranes yesterday at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Nenana Ice Classic is over for 2009
These pictures do not do it justice! When the ice was moving, it felt like a train was going by, the earth was rumbling. The sound was a loud rumbling, creaking and whooshing. It was huge!
This last picture shows the channel behind the tripod opening and ice chuncks piling up behind it.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Not only did Pastor Bill lose his hair, Mr. Schubert, the youth pastor also lost his beard. The AWANA kids said another 100 sections in order to shave Mr. Schubert's beard. The kids said more than 300 sections in 10 weeks.
This weekend is another freecycle, with dinner being a baked potato bar. We will be showing National Treasure also. We are looking forward to a great time!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Breakup is here! And what a difference a few days make! The snow is melting and the water is still standing around. The puddles are so fun to drive thru! It reminds me of one time in Hawaii, my parents drove thru a storm valley in the road and it was so much fun we turned around and did it twice more!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Diet Challenger Wins Donut Eating Contest
and Quilt Competition
NENANA-- Rebecca Troxel of Nenana was the winner this weekend of the Donut Eating Contest, hosted by the Nenana Ice Classic as part of the Tripod Days celebration. Rebecca downed a donut and a half in the one-minute time limit, easily out-munching the competition. The donuts were dry, hard to swallow cake donuts, but Rebecca beat the odds without even a cup of water to aid in the difficult task. In her victory, she claimed the $3 prize. And she wanted to mention, "Even though I ate the donuts, I lost .4 pounds this week."
Rebecca was a double champion this weekend, also winning the Quilt Contest. She took first place this year, a better finish than her second place win last year. On seeing the quilt she entered for judging, her arch rival (last year's quilt contest winner) said, "If you are going to enter that one, I'm not even going to bother to enter." Rebecca was estatic at this year's win; she said before the judging, "I'm in it to win it!" The winning quilt was a hand pieced, hand quilted 1000 Pyramids. It is not a true charm quilt in that some of the fabrics are repeated, but it does have over 900 different fabrics in the 1100 piece quilt. The prize was a $25 gift card to Jo-Ann's.
Rebecca and her family also participated in other weekend events including the Hula Hoop Contest, the Ball and Chain Contest, Face Painting, the TaeKwon Do Demonstration, the Potato Race, the Tug of War, the Egg Toss, the Gunny Sack Race and the Pop Scramble. They were very happy to win a door prize; a gift certificate to the Monderosa, a local restaurant.
The Nenana Ice Classic is happy to announce that the official Tripod is now up on the Tanana River and everyone will be waiting until the ice melts and the $300,000 prize will be awarded to the person who guesses closest to the time the ice goes out.
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