Alaska

 In August, Aaron was able to take a trip to visit his brother in Alaska -

 Aaron in front of some of the beautiful mountains. He took a lot of pictures, and the scenery is so different from here that every one seems amazing to me :)

 Aaron's parents went on a trip to Alaska as well and they overlapped with part of Aaron's visit.

 This is a glacier  -

 They went on a boat ride to look at some of the glaciers around a lake.

 Fish in the water - I believe some of them were salmon.

 This was at a wildlife refuge - we watched a documentary on grizzly bears last year and the girls were afraid for Aaron to go camping in Alaska. They thought maybe he and Josh should put up a tent in the living room instead :)

 More animals at the wildlife refuge -

 More mountains -

 and lakes -

 and rivers -

 Elijah and Josh at Elijah's birthday party - He turned 3!

 Aaron, Dad, and Josh after church on Sunday -

 Big bugs!

 A chocolate fountain at a store -

 Aaron by a mounted bear -

 I like the scenery pictures with Aaron better than the ones without :)

 Aaron and Josh went on a couple short camping/hiking trips - here they walked out on a glacier -

 I'm not sure how safe that is....

 Josh -

 Even though it was still August, some of the leaves were starting to change colors!

 They visited the port town of Valdez.

 A mounted moose at a museum -

 I love all the waterfall pictures too!

 The Alaskan oil pipeline -

 They hiked up by this waterfall -

See the parking lot down below? This was near Anchorage -