Little introduction to our family...

Our 4-membered family lives in South-Karelia, in small council called Ylämaa. Nearest city is Lappeenranta and to Vaalimaa (Finland-Russia border) is under 30 km away. Our family includes me, Marja-Liisa, my husband Pekka and our two boys, Jere and Tony. In our memories lives dwarf hamsters Tommi and Jerry. Our family exercise a lot; we go jogging, cycling, hike with dogs, play football, ski and skate. Jere and Tony wrestles through winter 2 times a week and through summer they play soccer. Marja-Liisa's hobby is to make websites. You can see already made websites here.

Our family is member of Finnish Alaskan Malamute Club. Marja-Liisa is Club's own magazine, ALMA's maker-up. She has also studied herself to be Test Official for REK/REKÄ (Sled dog's official tests) and for KVK (Alaskan malamute's weight pull test). At Finnish Alaskan malamute Club's yearly meeting at Nurmes 2008 Marja-Liisa was elected for Test- and competition Committee's chairman place. Malamutes as a race we have been interested since 2004. After long consideration and getting to know the race, we started to find appropriate breeder and litter for us. After few misfortunes we got Yepa from kennel Neatut year 2006. "Sorry to say", but you'll get addicted to malamutes! We started little by little dream about sledding buddy for Yepa. We talked with Yepa's breeder of having another malamute for so little age difference and when they thought that there was no obstacles, we started to wait suitable litter. We didn't want to change breeder and so we got another malamute from Neatut year 2007. This time it was a male, Hino. Our newest pack member is Yona, which we imported from kennel Cahppes from Sweden, year 2008. Our hope is to get Yona possibly to be our team's leader. Future also tells, if there is also breeding potential in this girl. We are very excited to get to know what future brings with Yepa, Hino and Yona.