[AmericanMade1776]

Hope you enjoy the pictures, here are a few of my favorites

This undated photo provided by the Heath family shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, then Sarah Heath, seated amid fireweed blooms in Alaska. Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. announced Palin as his running mate Friday Aug. 29, 2008.

Wasilla mayor Sarah Palin reloads while shooting at the fur & feather station that features ground-level and airborne targets at the 5th Annual Alaska Ladies Charity Classic sporting clays shoot Saturday June 3, 2000 at Grouse Ridge Shooting Grounds.

Peter Jacobs of Bethel, right, presents Gov. Sarah Palin with a tool for pounding fish eggs to make akutaq (Eskimo ice cream) at a reception honoring the governor and her family Saturday January 27, 2007 at the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Elders from around the state including Alice Petrivelli, Teddy Mayac, Sr., Chief Marie Smith-Jones, Daisy Demientieff, Bill Thomas and Jacobs spoke and presented gifts to the new first family.

[AmericanMade1776]

Photo by STEPHEN NOWERS / Anchorage Daily News Alaska governor Sarah Palin in her downtown Anchorage office on Friday

[AHerald]

Thanks. I especially like that pic of her in the fireweed against that beautiful Alaskan landscape. Beautiful. Classic. Bet we’ll be seeing that iamge for years to come.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Heaven help us--she's like Annette Funicello and Mary Ann Summers all rolled into one!

[nuconvert]

Alaska Governor Meets with Purple Heart Veterans

ANCHORAGE, Alaska –Governor Palin visits with veterans who have received the Purple Heart Medal, at VFW Post #10252 in Mountain View, Anchorage, on Saturday, May 3rd, 2008. Palin signed Senate Bill 216, authorizing part of the ALCAN highway to be included in the Purple Heart trail.

[SERKIT]

When McCain-Palin are elected, I will purchase embassy-sized portraits and hang them in my office!

[Tennessee Nana]

Are they shrimp, or prawns ???

Sarah was a mighty hunter at age three ...

LOL

[rawhide]

Thank you so much for these photos. I like this one, made me laugh:

Governor Sarah Palin was the star at the Governor's Picnic on the Park Strip on Saturday July 28, 2007. Governor Palin served hamburgers, talked with constituents, had her picture taken countless times, sign autographs and signed the senior benefits bill in to law at the picnic.

[hershey]

Who says there isn’t a God? Thank you, Alaska, the Palin family, Wasila, everyone who supported her along the way, and God, too. She’s just what this country needs. (The pictures are wonderful. She was such a determined little girl. Yes!!!)

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Well that does it. She shoots Sporting Clays too?

I. Love. Her.

[TontoKowalski]

That collection of photos also gave us (me, anyway) our first look at Track, the eldest boy who's now in the Army.

Why am I not surprised that he looks like a prototypical All American Boy?

None of the people in this family ever get caught in a bad photo, do they? LOL.

The Dems have GOT to be soiling their pants.

[GOP_Lady]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. :-)

[nuconvert]

Running for city council in 1992

[antioscar]

thanks!

[SlowBoat407]

I think she’ll be perfect for confronting Congress. After all, she’s used to large groups of children demanding attention.

[rom]

Notice how some men and women just get better looking as they age? I think it has to do with how content they are in life. Which is why most conservative men and women age with grace (note, I said conservative and not Republican :) ), while angry liberals tend to get angrier and uglier with age. Their best days are always behind them, while ours is always ahead of us.

My wife looks better to me today than she did when I first met her. Those who embrace motherhood and fatherhood for that matter also end up looking more radiant. I think Governor Palin and her husband are testaments to this.

[NavyCanDo]

In my large circle of Republican friends there is still one that is not happy with the Palin Pick. Of course he is Mormon and wanted Mitt. I hope by the end of the long weekend he gets caught up in the excitement and changes his mind. Mitt would of been “just OK”, but there is no way he would of created as much excitement in the base as Sarah has, and there is no way that a new generations of Reagan Democrats, the PUMA’s would of crossed over.

[Iron Munro]

Thanks for the post.
Many nice pics I haven’t seen before.

Sarah started out cute as a button and just got better every year!!

America was built by men, women and families like the Palins.

Not by the latte sipping, snarky, lefty newsreaders passing judgement on them and the world from their glass capsules floating in the smog.

[mikrofon]

You Must've Been a Beautiful Baby, 'Cause Baby, Look At You Now...

[GoldwaterChick]

Thank you for that gorgeous fireweed photo! I always regretted that I didn’t get that shot when we were in Homer and now I have it. Yes, Alaska is that beautiful.

I’m sending a link to this thread to all my friends titled Mr. & Mrs. America, meet your new 2nd Family!

[Alice in Wonderland]