Overwhelmed with EXCITEMENT

I just wanted to post this saying that we are so excited. More excited than a dog that just spotted a cat (Peter thinks I could be more creative with my descriptions sometimes...Dork.). We leave to come back to Utah tomorrow night at 11:30 pm and finally get into Utah at 9:00 AM on Monday morning. We are so excited. That's pretty much all we talk about. Well that and Melly. We aren't sure how she is going to survive on the plane. Scary. Well this entry probably doesn't make much sense but oh well. You read it anyway. Ha. Ha.

I prefer to walk, Mom & Dad!

The red "X" is our apartment and the red "O" is where our friends the Nay's live. Peter was taking out the trash and Melynn wanted to go. So we walked outside and I set her down and she just started walking. We wanted to see where she would go so we followed her two steps back. The Nay's have a little girl named Savannah that Melly absolutely adores and we followed her all the way to Savannah's. We said hi and then followed her right back to our apartment door without guiding or holding her hand at all. We are so amazed that our one year old knows how to get to Savannah and back to our house without any help. It's amazing that she would know that. Wow!

Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center

On Sunday we went to the wildlife preserve and saw a bunch of really cool animals.



Melynn did not want to be in the car seat any longer. This was on the way there.







I like how the elks mouth is open.








The baby buffalo look dead.



Caribou


Reindeer

Alaska Wildlife

I finally saw my first moose. Peter has already seen like six. So I was pretty excited when I finally got to see one.

Melynn's BLUE eyes

Last night when we went to the store to buy a baby monitor so Melynn could sleep in her own room. The lady in front of us waiting to check out said to us that she thinks that Melynn's eye color is a mix between Peter's (brown)and mine (green). Crazy woman. I don't think she even looked at our eyes. How do you get BLUE from green and brown? Sometime you just shouldn't speak.

Melly's own room

Melynn is finally sleeping through the night. So last night we bought a baby monitor and she spent her first night in her own room. It was a little difficult to her at first. But I think that is due to her new bottle. She broke one of her usual bottles and we had to buy another one. And I don't think she recognized the shape during the night. This happened at about 11:30. But as soon as the bottle was taken care of Peter and I finally got a full nights sleep...it's been months. She woke up at 10:30. Yea!

Snooky...II

I am so glad that Grammy sent me Snooky Bunny II. This is how much I love my bunny. I always have to have it with me. If I leave it home, mom says I just can’t deal. Even when I’m sleeping I’ve got to have my snooky II. Thanks Grammy. I just love my bunny.

More Alaska

Here are some pictures of the mountains here in Alaska. Not as great as the Rockies.

Internet Malfunction

Our internet is down at home so I am up at the clubhouse right now. We will leave updates as soon and the internet is up and running again at our apartment. Until then don't get bored. Keep checking, updates are coming.

My NEW Floaties

We (Melly and Wendi) went to the pool on Friday and I bought arm floaties but when we got to the pool I forgot them and the camera in the car so I didn't get any pictures taken. So I put her in the tub tonight in her swimsuit with floaties and took pictures for everyone to see. She kept trying to suck on them. She would go back and forth having a taste of each one. I think they will work out great at the pool. And all for a $1.38 at Walmart. What a great deal.

Door Stop Toy

Melynn loves the door stops, but we have to be careful because she likes to rip off the white ends and eat them. Here's the video.

Cause and Effect

We think that Melynn in beginning to understand cause and effect. Whenever she plays with the blinds in the living room she gets in trouble and she knows that she is going to. Well today she was watching signing time and I was on the laptop and I turned on some music and she came over and turned down the sound on the laptop so she could hear her show. Now we know that she knows what she is doing because she has done it to me several times before.

Melynn's FIRST Shiner

Melynn got her first black eye today trying to take on the bench in front of us in sacrament meeting today. It bled a little bit but not to much. She is so tough she didn't even cry...at all.

I spy Melynn...Can you?

Believe it or not, she's in there!
She always pulls the blanket over her head while she is sleeping. In fact I went it took this photo and pulled the blanket off and went back 15 seconds later I went back and the blanket was back over her face. Pretty funny.

Happy Mothers Day!

I was having trouble with my phone up here in Alaska and received my Mother's Day gift early...a Blackberry Curve. So far I am loving it. I even got a really great skin for it. Happy Mother's Day to me. Thanks Peter and Melly, I love it.

Drive that box!

Melynn has finally decided it's okay to play by her self again. I think she is finally getting used to our new place. So tonight we were sitting around relaxing after a long day and she was playing all by herself in the corner and all a sudden she came zipping by. Check out the video you'll see what we mean.

I hate these shirts, Mom!

Melynn doesn't like the long sleeved onesies, because they are just a little to big and the sleeves are to long and they just get in the way. She gets really frustrated.

Four sales

Today was a great day for Peter. Through a lot of hard work and even more prayer he was able to get four sales today. Way to go babe, we are so proud of you!

Zoo Day! Part II

This is kind of a funny video that we got of the seal. I don't know what it was doing. I guess you could say he was kissing the glass.

Zoo Day!

Today we went to the zoo. The Alaska Zoo is different than the Hogle Zoo there are no African animals. They only have animals from Alaska. It was not too exciting. Melynn loved the goats. A girl after mine and grandma's (G-ma Houser) own heart. she kept pulling herself so that her face was touching the fence (On the non-dangerous animals cages you could reach through the fence and touch them). You are very close to them. Melly made a new friend today. He is one of the sales reps (Eric). Melly really liked him. Here are some of the things that we really liked. And some photos of Melly and her new friend.