Friday, August 12, 2011

Wow has it really been over a month since I last checked in?!?! Time goes by way too fast!

I can't believe how fast summer has gone by already, and I haven't even gotten a tan!! The island is fully green and most of the berries are starting to ripen up. The reds have come and gone - no one really got any this year, I was lucky to get 6 for my freezer!!! My hubby and his cousin went out a couple days go and loaded up on 400 pink salmon - 60 of which we split and dried, the rest was handed out to people in town!! So with the fish my hubby and mom got while I was in Anchorage and the 60 we just got I have just under 100 humpies drying on my dry rack!! Yay!!! I always send some to my cousin in North Carolina and to my younger sister in Anchorage!!

I went to Anchorage for a couple weeks - I left on the last ferry July and came back on the first ferry in August! I got a lot of dental work done that needed to be done, well not "a lot" but it was a lot of sitting and waiting on standby to get in for an appt!! Thanks to my sister Ivy for watching Roni while I got my dental work done!!! Also Roni is all caught up on her shots, she ended up getting 6 shots total... poor baby.... Then I had appts and had my blood drawn multiple times, followed by an ultrasound the day before I came home. So I did end up having a miscarriage, then I ended up getting pregnant again.... and this time according to the ultrasound, we're having TWINS!!! OMG I can't explain how excited I was to see that!! I've always wanted twins!! Now to just take care of myself and be extra careful and make sure that these two little angels make it to full term!!! I think I'll be done having kids after this though, one of us is getting "fixed"!!! But you should have seen the looks on my sister Ivy's and my face when we noticed the ultrasound tech writing "fetus A" and "fetus B" on the ultrasound screen! I about wanted to get off the table and start jumping for joy!! I couldn't wait to call the hubby and family!! This is the first time anyone on my side of the family got pregnant with twins!! We are due around April 4, 2012 or so according to the measurements taken during the ultrasound!! Please pray for me to make it to full term with both of them being healthy and happy!! I am hoping for the best!!

Other than that it was great to go up and spend some time with my sister and niece!! My older sister and her 2 girls even drove up from Valdez for a weekend to spend time with all of us! We got some pictures taken of our girls!! They turned out beautiful!!! I miss spending time with my neices!!! It was a great couple week get away, but I missed work, my dogs and especially my bed!!! I can't believe there was only a couple days of nice weather, other than that it rained almost the whole time!!! All in all I enjoyed spending time with my out of town family and being able to go shopping!!

I have to go back to Anchorage for my 12 week prenatal check up and to get another ultrasound to check on the babies!! I'm excited!!! Speaking of babies, any day Cali should pop out her 2nd litter!! This time we mated her with Dante (my smaller chi that I rescued a couple years ago, the same chi that CB from Dutch Harbor Dirt watched for me) I am starting a list of people who are interested in a puppy. I am still stuck on what to sell them for but so far I have come up with around $50 for people here in Akutan, $150 for people in Dutch Harbor and $300 for anyone else that I have to ship them to. The prices out of Akutan cost more just for supplies (kennel and what not) and shipping charges. They will be fully registered with the AKC and CKC. They come in an assortment of colors, short and long hair, ranging from 3lbs to 6-7lbs. They have a great temperment and are free from any genetical defects. I am working on writing up a puppy contract. They should be ready for their homes sometime in October (10 weeks old). They will have had their first set of puppy shots and hopefully there is a certified person here on the island to admister their rabies shots! Once we figure out all our expenses we'll set the prices for sure, but those are my estimates so far. Also I am only really selling them to people I know who are going to give the pups a great home and not have them be abused or neglected! I'm going to work out all those details in a puppy contract!

I heard the airport project is moving along great and that it's starting to take shape and starting to look more like an actual runway!! That's pretty exciting. Also the boat harbor project is looking more and more like the projected pictures of the finished product! They are working day and night on both projects! Pretty soon they will be starting the road project to the head of the bay where the boat harbor is located!!

Most of the older kids who came home to visit are all either gone back to where they are going to school or are getting ready to leave, it was great to have them all home for the last couple months! Right now the town is full of younger kids who are here visiting with their parents, it's awesome to see that many little kids running around!!!

Veronika is growing like a weed and learning so fast! She's really good at helping out at almost everything and understands more and more every day! She loves to play outside and chase the older little boys around! She enjoys 4-wheeler rides. She's starting to try to say bigger words, the biggest word she can almost say right is: Sponge Bob! She's such a great little helper! I love her to pieces and thank god everyday for giving me such a beautiful, smart little girl!! I think she's almost ready to start trying to potty train, she likes to point to her diaper and let us know when she's about to potty - and I was told thats the first sign that I can start to try to potty train her!!! They grow up too fast, next thing I know she'll be getting her drivers license, graduating and heading off to college!!!!

The weather here has been beautiful since I've been home!! Flat calm, foggy on days but tipping the scales around 60F+ Perfect weather for drying fish!! :D The fireweed is starting to bloom from the bottom up, when it hits the top blooms that's a sure sign that Fall is here!! I can't wait to start putting away salmonberries, blueberries and moss berries!! MMMMmmmm moss berry pie sounds great right now!!! I was able to save enough sea gull eggs to make a pie in Anchorage to share with my sisters!!! They seemed to enjoy it a lot!!! I'm out of sea gull eggs now until next year!

This Sunday is going to mark another anniversary for my hubby and me!! Officially it will be our 3rd anniversary (court marriage), we hit our 1 year church anniversary on July 25, but we've been dating/living together for almost 9 years already!! I swear time goes by way too fast!! Sunday will also mark 4 years since we first jumped out of a perfectly good airplane while on vacation in Hawaii!!! My hubby and our friend AJ are planning on going skydiving on our vacation (of course I'm not able to go since I'll be pregnant with the twins!). Roni and I will find other things to do while they are out being adventurous!! I'm looking forward to playing with her in the sand and water and showing her dolphins and sea turtles and everything else!! She's going to have so much fun, I can't wait!!! Plus it's going to be AJ's first time to Hawaii so we can't wait to take him around the island and show him everything Hawaii has to offer!!! I don't think he's going to be used to all the heat, but he should do great (as long as there is airconditioning, snow cones and lots of cold drinks!)

I have been doing great trying to get the word out about my Scentsy website and trying to people to order from me!! This month almost everything is 10% off since this is considered a transition month, next month the new Fall/Winter season starts!! There will be a lot of great new products. I love this month's scent "Just Breathe" it's a soothing mix of eucalyptus, lemon and mint. I think it's prefect for the upcoming cold season!! The Bring Back My Bar was a sucess last month!! I fell in love with a lot of the scents and hope I loaded up on enough of them!! Since I don't know if they will ever become available again! Remember you can always order from my website: www.aprilpelkey.scentsy.us and as always for every order you place your name gets put in my monthly drawing for a brick (a $20 value) of your favorite scent!! One winner is drawn on the 1st of the following month!!! So far my customers have enjoyed entering my drawing, I've had 5 winners so far (I started my drawing back in March). And as always I offer free replacement light bulbs for as long as I'm a consultant to all my customers!! It's a great product and I highly recommend it to everyone!! It's safer than candles and it's super easy to change out the scents when you want!! There are 80+ scents to choose from!! Please check out my website and look at the avail warmers and scents! I know you'll love it as much as I do!! And if you'd like to join the Scentsy team and sell it yourself you can sign up from my website!! Good luck and thanks for ordering with me!! Your Scentsy Independent Consultant!! :D

Well I'll try not to let it be over a month for my next check in!! Until then I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their summer and has lots of fun before the first frosts appear (at least to this part of the world!) Take care and thanks for reading my blog!! TTFN!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

First off I'd love to wish my godchild/neice Kadance Marie a very happy 4th birthday!! I hope you love the presents we sent to you and wish even more that we could be there to celebrate with you!!!

So today is the first day we've gotten a plane in since the 14th!!! They brought over a good amount of mail but not even half the amount that they have sitting over in Dutch Harbor!! I got some movies in and my prenatal vitamins but still waiting for the rest of everything to come in!! I did get in Roni's Hello Kitty order!! She got in some really cute HK Vans (shoes) and a couple bathing suits for when we go on Vacation!! I'm excited every day is another day closer to enjoying a relaxing vacation!!

Ohhh I recieved my grades for lessons 1 & 2 of my ENGL 111 course!! I got a 88% (B) on lesson 1 and 96% on lesson 2!! I am currently working on getting lesson 3 completed and sent in before Monday!! That made me excited know that I did great on the first couple lessons!!!

Nothing much has been happening around here. The island is slowly but surely turning green. The berry plants have sprouted flowers and some are already shedding their petals and turning into small berries that will ripen into sweet bites of heaven!! The fish haven't really shown up like they did 5 years ago... so it's been a slow season for salmon once again. Hopefully I get some this year, I just used up the last of my salted salmon in the latest batch of pickled fish I whipped out!! So my buckets are empty and ready to be filled again!!

I can't believe how fast this month went by!! Next thing I know I'm going to be in Anchorage waiting to give birth!! I will be 8 weeks pregnant this Saturday!! I haven't experience any morning sickness like I did when I was preggo with Roni... so that makes me think if I'm having a boy this time around. I do have the usual heartburn though, so I'm stocked up on Tums!! I can't believe that they don't make Rolaids anymore!! I can't find them anywhere!! I'm thinking it's time to start looking at the next size up pants/jeans.... when I got pregnant with Roni I had lost almost 60 lbs prior to getting preggo, so all my clothes were big on me to begin with. This time I'm not so lucky and I know here soon my clothes won't be fitting me anymore. Wish it was easier to shop for clothes other than online!!

I joined Netflix a couple weeks ago. I love how fast they are able to send out my movies when they recieve the one I just watched! Just wish the weather would let us get planes as fast as they ship! I tried to use their instant on your computer/blu ray player option but the internet here is way too slow to deal with that! I was hoping that it would work but I guess not... I love how they offer bluray DVD's too!! This should be cheaper than buying the movies myself!! At least I hope so, at least they offer a 30 day free trial!!

We went to Dutch Harbor on the ferry this past weekend. Got some shopping done, loaded up on Gerber lil crunchies in Veggie dip flavor for Veronika, she just can't get enough of those things!! We also picked up anything else we saw that we needed. I'm always picking up those Starbucks double shots energy + coffee in vanilla flavor, even though I know I need to start cutting all caffeine out of my diet for my growing fetus! We tried to pick up a new broom - we paid for one - but the hubby completely forgot about it and left it at the checkout stand and he didn't remember about it until we were half way home on the ferry!! I couldn't believe he forgot it! Oh well, there is 12.00 down the drain!! I love to load up on fruits for Veronika and me to munch on!! I also picked up some ice cream since I've been craving some Rocky Road Icecream (same ice cream I craved when preggo with Roni)!! I picked up some heavy whipping cream to make my own icecream too!!!

Tonight we are going to cook up some burgers and fries, then I'm going to whip out a couple sea gull egg custard pies before my eggs go bad!! I wanted to make a pumpkin pie too but I think I'll wait on making that!! I also want to make some banana bread!! The damn company that we order from for the store sent us yellow bananas instead of green ones... so by the time they got here they are all getting dark and "bruised" - perfect for banana bread!!

Oh I also picked up my Scentsy Bring Back My Bar samples from Penair Cargo when we went over to Dutch!! I am in love with a bunch of them!! I can't wait to load up on them on Friday (they are only available in the month of July). My top 5 would have to be Red Delicious, Grape Granita, Watermelon Patch, Orange Dreamsicle and Root Beer Float!! Next would have to be Fresh cut cantaloupe, banana flower, coconut palm, irish cream and exotic vanilla!! There are only 20 scents total that will be back exclusively in the month of July! I am taking a list of orders for locals here in the village and will get an order out on Friday!! So if you'd like me to order them for you ASAP get a hold of me before Friday!! You can order them all month but the earlier you order them the faster they can get to you!! :D And as always I have my Monthly drawings I do on the 1st of every month for every order made in the previous month!! The person who gets drawn wins a brick of your favorite Scentsy scent!! Order at: aprilpelkey.scentsy.us I always appreciate any business, if you'd like to have a catalog sent to you please get a hold of me and I'll get that out ASAP!!

Also we had a Tsunami warning the other day. I guess there was a 7.2 earthquake inbetween Nikolski and Atka. The warning was canceled but wow what a feeling of being worried over it! We were in the middle of frying up some fresh cod when we got the call and stopped doing everything to pack an emergency bag then went back to cooking and eating dinner. I always say it's a matter of time before we shake and move since everywhere else on the Pacific plate is moving!! Plus AVO (Alaska Volcano Observatory) is here in town replacing and fixing some of their seismic stations. So it's only a jinx if it shakes while they are here!! I'm waiting to feel the ground rumble and shake. I love the power Mother Earth holds, it just amazes me!! Like I said only so long before we get a good shaking!!

Ok well I'll try to update this again in a couple days or so with anything I might have left out!! Take care bloggers!! Much love to you!! Until next time TTFN!!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Wow has it really been that long since I last wrote in my blog, I feel disappointed about trying to keep this updated :(

The island is slowly turning green! The sea gulls are laying their eggs and I made my first custard pies last night (BTW they tasted awesome!!!). The red salmon are slowly showing up, the bumble bees are back checking on all the new flowers that have bloomed over the last week or so! The salmonberry bushes are budding and some even have their delicate pink flowers fully bloomed! I mowed my yard 3 times already, and it's due for a mowing again! I went on a dandelion killing spree the other day and ripped all those ugly yellow flowers out of my yard! Still debating whether or not I want to spray them with weed killer now....

The temps have been staying in the mid to high 40's and we've actually haven't been hit with too many summer storms. The plane is busy moving processors back and forth for the upcoming fishing season - so there goes hoping for mail!! Pen-Air does get some mail over to us once they finish moving the people, but at least mail is making it out!

The state ferry Tustemena is on it's summer run, making it here every 2 weeks. I like to try to jump on it once in a while for a day trip to Dutch Harbor to go shopping and for a change of scenery! Roni is a great lil sailor!!

My pups are getting big and a handful at times! They range in size from 7lbs to 2.5 lbs!! The long haired females are my bigger pups, so they will probably be the ones I breed with Dante (He's 5.5 lbs). The rest of them I'm going to have to get fixed since they aren't in a safe breeding size! Veronika loves playing with them and playing in their water dish!! They are all so lovey and have great personalities and temperaments. But I do have to tell you they are the greatest door bells!! Although they do like to bark when a 4-wheeler goes by the house, not knowing that it isn't coming to our house!

I harvested a couple bell peppers off my plants! They turned this beautiful red color and were the sweetest peppers I have ever tasted! My canary was happy with the ones I chopped up for him!! Now the rest of the peppers on some of the plants have less competition and hopefully grow big like the ones I harvested!

So I have some great news to share with everyone.... Akutan's population is going to go up by one this coming Valentine's Day, for I am 5 weeks pregnant!!! My hubby and I couldn't be more thrilled!! We put off trying for a couple months until last month and what do you know! Roni is going to be a great big sister! I just went thru Veronika's clothes the other day and put away all the stuff she don't fit and hung up all the bigger clothes that she's going to grow into! I am saving most of her clothes in case I have another girl - if we end up having a boy I think I might sell most of some of it on eBay! Try to get back some of the money I spent on all the clothes I got her... if not I'll find a baby I can hand them down to... I am super excited to be pregnant again though! I had my first prenatal appt yesterday - I hate getting my blood drawn.....

The boat harbor project is zooming along, and they have a lot done up there from some pictures my friends posted on FaceBook when they flew over it! I haven't heard much about the airport project but that is going along smoothly from what I do hear about it! They are pumping away night and day getting stuff done over there! I heard that they had to get rid of a bull cow that has been harassing the workers over there... so they are probably enjoying the fresh meat from the kill (depending on how tough and old the bull was).

Scentsy has a great looking warmer for this month's warmer of the month. It's called Star Spangled and it's the shape of a star with the American flag on it!! I think it's cute! The Scent of the Month is Peach a la Mode! I love how it smells!! And remember next month the Bring Back My Bar sale will be going on, where 20 discontinued scents will be available only in the month of July!! I am excited to stock up on some of them and try ones I never seen before!! Remember you can go to my website: http://www.aprilpelkey.scentsy.us/ to make your orders!! If you'd like to join and sell it yourself you can click on the join button from my website!! I appreciate everyone's business, not to mention for every order you place you get put into my monthly drawing for a brick of your favorite Scentsy scent!! (A $20 value) One winner gets picked on the 1st of every month for the order placed in the month prior! I also offer free light bulb replacements for your warmers! Just let me know if you need one and I'll get it off to you!! Also if you order with me I will send you the monthly Warmer and Scent of the Month fliers with a "Rub and Smell" sample of that month's scent!! Please pass the word on to all your friends and family! If you want a catalog just let me know and I'll get one out in the mail for you!!

So I am awaiting the grade to my first Lesson in my ENGL F111X class... I am hoping I did great, but you never know! It's been 10 years since I last took an English course and the only writing I really do is here on my blog and my FB posts! Other than that I don't really write much, especially academically! I hope to do great on this class, I am currently working on my next lesson which is a reflection resume explaining my objectives for taking this course, my past writing experiences and any out of school writing activities (such as my blog). And I have to start keeping a journal that compiles my thoughts and reflections about my completed writing, my activities during pre-writing and so forth about my journey to improve my writing skills!! I think I confuse myself and make it seem hard when really it isn't.... I just have to change the way I think about the course and do my best to get my stuff together and on paper! I do enjoy the challenge I get for trying to complete everything in timely order!! Feels good to know that I'm taking a college course again!

Well I have some stuff I have to get done here in the office. My co-worker is out for medical and won't be back for a month or so... so it's just me in the office, not a problem for me just more work to do! I will try to get a couple pictures uploaded later this afternoon!! Until then, TTFN!!

Friday, April 8, 2011

So we've been getting hit by some pretty big storms the last week or so! Last weekend we got hit with 100MPH winds and got over 2 feet of wet sleet/snow dumped on us, then on Monday the wind switched to a southerly and warmed up to around 50F and melted everything, then a couple days later we get hit with what the weather people are saying was no less than a category 3 hurricane. There was some damage in other villages around this area but everything was fine here in Akutan. Just had a coating of fresh salt water on everything from the wind picking up water off the bay and spraying it on everything! Then yesterday the weather cleared up for a bit and got warm - still not nice enough for a plane though.... then woke up today to strong and cold Northerly winds and a light dusting of snow. It's almost like winter isn't going to go anywhere without putting up a good fight!! It's been a while now since we've gotten a plane..... All I know is that there are a lot of boats anchoring out in our bay because they don't want to be out in the 35+ foot seas outside of our bay! I don't think I'll ever want to see seas that huge! 6-10ft seas are big enough for me!!

Veronika got her 1st ear infection, my poor baby.... and on top of it all she's wheezing and has to get nebulizer treatments to help clear her lungs up. She hasn't really had too bad a fever but at times her temp gets up to 101 or so, so I've been keeping her on infants tylenol when I noticed her temp go up. She's been a little fussy the first part of the week, but once her antibiotics kicked in she's been acting like her normal self once again. Thank goodness!! I was just about in tears when I had to take her to the clinic... I'm happy we got it in the early stages though! I still can't believe my baby is over a year old already.....

So we have the Alaska Volcano Observatory coming out this summer... not sure if that's a good sign or a bad sign about anything... it's been since 1996 since they last came to the island and put up monitors.... we'll find out more this summer when they come in. I'm thinking it has something to do with the plates moving and the earthquakes in Japan.... but like I said we'll know more this summer when they come in.

I have to talk with the airport people about their hotel reservations. I show they are supposed to be leaving soon but word has it they are staying longer... and if they are they have to let me know because I've been taking reservations for the hotel rooms that they are occupying since they haven't told me that they needed to extend their reservations.... so I have to get a hold of them ASAP and let them know what's going on with the hotel bookings. With the weather we've been having I don't think they've been able to get the work done that they wanted to get done by now!

The state ferry Tustemena will be here in a couple more weeks, the first of the year! I hope the weather is nice enough for them to come down! American Easter and Russian Orthodox Easter both fall on the same day (again) this year! I got Roni the cutest lil green dress for Easter! I'm excited to make Kulich (Easter bread) and color eggs with Roni! I got everything I need to make her a custom Easter basket! Most of the stuff I'm going to be eating anyway but she can have the stuffed animals!

Gosh 12 more days and I'll be celebrating my 28th birthday.... I don't know how the years are going by so fast, I don't feel like I'm going to be 28........ But I'm excited! I have my appt set up for a new tattoo when I head up to Anchorage!! I'm excited about that!! Its going to look soo awesome!! I've been waiting a long time to get this tattoo! I will share it with everyone once I get it done!! :D I won a $60.00 gift certificate to the Inked Monkey Tattoo by participating in KWHL's Tattoo Tuesday caption contests!!! So I figured I better put it to good use!! :D

Lets see now, Scentsy is working out great for me here in Akutan. I think I have a Scensty warmer in about 1/3 of the households here and they are all loving their products! I'm happy I can help supply them with all their Scentsy needs! I'd appreciate it if everyone can check out my Scentsy web page and get familiar with the product! Its a wickless candle system that uses a low watt light bulb to heat up a warmer, and you put these highly scented wax cubes into the warming bowl. Which then get melted and disperse the scent through out your home/office! I'm loving last month's Scent of the Month: Jumpin Jelly Beans!! This month's scent is called Flutter - it's delicate orange blossoms and whipped almond cream floating above a bed of bright lemon verbena, creating a dreamy fragrance, like a sweetheart's whisper in the night! I think it smells kind of like an orange cream ice cream bar!! Soo yummy!!! My website is: http://www.aprilpelkey.scentsy.us/ - to order click on the buy tab! Please get the word out to all you know!! You can also sign up to get newsletters via email! And if you'd like you can email me your address and I can send you the monthly fliers for the Scent and Warmer of the month with a "rub and smell" of that month's scent of the month!

Other than that nothing really new happening around this part of the world - other than Old Man Winter isn't going to let Spring in without a fight first! In about a month the island should be starting to turn green and the days will be longer and warmer! I'm looking forward to getting fish: halibut & salmon. I need to dry more salmon this year, I ran out earlier than I usually do! I love living off the land and sea!! Ugggg and I just remembered.... I better start getting my tax stuff ready and out in the mail next week :P I'm a procrastinator when it comes to my own taxes :P

Ok well bloggers have a great time, until my next post, Ta Ta For Now (TTFN)!!! :D

Pix:

My baby bell pepper after the flower petals fell off!

Veronika kicking back under a table in my office, She was kicking her little legs too it was so cute!

Playing with her new MegaBlocks kitchen set we got her! She has that "now what" look!!

My pretty Princess on April 2, 2011

Me! :D

Friday, April 1, 2011

April is here already!! Sorry I didn't get my blog posted yesterday like I promised! Nothing much going on in this part of the world, all the same as in the last post. Let me see what I can write about... hmmmm......

I did get in my Scentsy April Warmer and Scent of the Month fliers in and the Rub & Smell stickers for the scent of the month - which is called Flutter - Drift to sleep as the subtle perfume of a moonlit spring garden flutter through an open window. Delicate orange blossoms and whipped almond cream float above a bed of bright lemon verbena, creating a dreamy fragrance, like a sweetheart's whisper in the night!! I think it smells a bit like an orange cremesicle!! And I can't explain how much I am loving last month's Scent Jumpin' Jelly Beans! My whole office smells like a fresh spring day!! I have my co-workers drooling over it!! I handed out most of the fliers to people here in Akutan and mailed some out to some of my frequent buyers! Below is a picture of this month's Warmer of the Month:

To purchase go to my website: http://www.aprilpelkey.scentsy.us/ and click on the buy tab! Also I did my Monthly Drawing for a brick of Scentsy (a $20 value) today, and the winner is Karen Vincler! Congratulations Karen! :D To enter my drawing all you have to do is make an order from my website and your name gets put into the pot. Each time you make an order you get another chance at winning!! Winners are picked on the 1st of the following month!

I am still trying to get pictures uploaded of Roni from the last couple months, I think I'll just post what I have now and keep trying to get more uploaded, plus pictures from her birthday! I can't believe how fast the year has already gone by, in 20 more days I'll be turning 28!!! :\ I still can't believe that I'm going to be 28... I remember 10 years ago when I thought 28 was getting kind of old, now that I'm here I don't think that anymore!! Gosh, it's still hard for me to believe that I'm going to be 28 and that my lil girl is already past the 1 year mark! The years, days, hours just seem to go by so quickly!!

My puppies are doing great - they love to chew and tear up everything and I'm happy as long as it's something they are allowed to chew and tear up - like their chew toys and everything else I got them! They are definately some spoiled pups that's for sure! Obedience training with them is a bit difficult, but I'm slowly getting them trained. I think I need to start getting them out of the house more and socializing with other people!! It's just hard to pick which ones I want to take with me, plus with it being cold out I rarely take them out... hopefully the weather warms up soon and I can start walking them around town! (on leash of course).

I have moved Roni to eating Gerber 3rd foods and she's eating a lot of what we eat now (minus all the junk food). She loves to sit with us at the table and eat at meal times! She's getting better with me brushing her teeth now too! Now just to start trying to wean her.... I feel that's going to be really hard on the both of us, emotionally and physically! She's getting so much better at running around, but she's hard headed about wanting to keep shoes on her feet! She'd much rather run around in just her socks or bear footed! Silly girl! When I go to Anchorage I'm going to get her pictures taken with a big number 1!! I'm excited, but I feel like I want to cry at the same time.... she's no longer a baby but a toddler!!!..... But we are trying for another baby, so hopefully sometime this year I get preggo again! One or two more and I'll be done having kids!! A family of 4-5 is big enough for me..... at least that's my thinking for now! I have hoarded up a bunch of 4t and size 4 clothes for Roni to grow into. I think I have to start getting size 5! She's still fitting some 18 month clothes and all of her 2T clothes and some 3T clothes. I can't believe how fast she's growing! She's just over 30in tall and weighing in around 30lbs!

I have been trying to diet and lose weight. Between P90X, yoga, belly dancing, Wii Fit, My Shape on Xbox 360 Kinect, and EA Sports on Xbox 360 Kinect I should be able to whip myself back into shape. I can admit I kind of stopped watching what I ate because I was eating for 2 this whole time (while I was preggo and while breastfeeding) but I think it's time to get my body back into shape before it gets too hard to do that! It's so hard to limit my food intake, cut down my soda intake and not to indulge on snack foods.... but I know in the end it will pay off and I hope to stick to my plan!! By the time I get my body the way I want it watch I'll be preggo again and gain most of it all back again :P

The weather has been slowing showing some signs of spring! I noticed that my grass in my yard is growing, some of the plants around town are sprouting little buds, and the thick beach grass is about an inch and half tall! My bell peppers are putting out flowers and my apple tree is just under 4 feet tall! I think I have to get all my plants transplanted into bigger containers. This weekend I will start all my seedlings, which include: jalepeno, red chili peppers, cucumbers, green onions, and an assortment of herbs and a bunch of assorted annual flowers! I hope to get flowers growing all over in my back yard! Give me something nice to look at when I look out my bedroom window! I am trying to get my hubby to make me hanging flower baskets for our porch and in front of our windows so I can put flowers in those. I don't think my strawberries survived in my old BBQ over the winter, they just got too cold because they are lifted up off the ground. The ones I planted near my parents are looking great though, because they are planted right into the ground! I'm excited to get my green thumb going!

Today the weather is pretty nice and calm. With the smallest breeze that will come along! The temps are hanging just under 40F during the day and still dipping around freezing at night. I heard we are supposed to be getting a really big storm, but it still hasn't made it's way here. Yesterday the weather forecast said it was supposed to blow 50MPH, but it was just as nice as it is today!! The plane made it in a couple times already, but I heard they changed their scheduled flights to an earlier flt in the morning and a later flight at night. But so far they have been coming in as scheduled with a couple "chartered" flights for some of the companies that are working here.

Other than that everything has been going pretty great here on the island! I can't wait for summer time to come - fishing and nice warm weather, hiking and going out in the skiff, picnics and relaxing outside with my family!! Summers tend to go way to fast around here though....

Ok well until next time have a great April Fool's Day bloggers!!!

March 29, 2011

So yesterday was my lil girl's first birthday! Her party was great, lots of great people and great food! I'm happy that it all went off as good as it did! Now I can de-stress and look back at it as a great accomplishment!! The weather was a bit windy and cold but that didn't stop all the party go-ers from attending my lil Princess' first birthday party! We all had a great time, and even after all the cake and frosting Roni devoured she still made it to sleep on time last night!! She had fun opening her presents when we got home, she wasn't in the mood to open them at the party. A lot has been going on the past month since I last posted a blog. I was in Anchorage during the whole earthquake in Japan and the tsunami warning that they had to deal with here in Akutan. I had my hubby make him and the dogs an emergency bag with everything they would need for at least 5 days! I took my lil sister out to Benihana's for her birthday, we got all dressed up and had a great time with our daughters! I had training and was in Anchorage for a week, I actually made it up and back on my scheduled days, which doesn't really happen much around here! There still hasn't been much snow here... I bought a bunch of flower, vegetable and herb seeds to plant this spring and hopefully put outside once it gets warm. My bell peppers I started a month or so ago are putting out lil flowers/bell peppers and my apple tree is about 3.5ft tall!! The weather has been up and down all month... going a couple days of calm clear weather followed by the usual couple days of stormy weather. On the 19th we got hit with a really strong storm and actually made the news with our "hurricane" force winds. And here I was on the beach trying to get pictures of the huge waves we were actually getting in our bay!! The Airport project is coming along smoothly. I heard they hired some "sea otter" monitors (locals they trained) to count and keep track of the otter population so that they (the airport people and the project) doesn't impact the populations of otters. The boat harbor project is slowly getting started back up again also! They have it pretty torn up at the head of the bay. I'm still just proud of how Veronika was yesterday, she was just as happy as can be! I'm still trying to upload pix from the last couple months, then I'm going to try to post some pix from her party! I'm sorry I haven't been updating my blog as much as I want to.... just haven't been having time with getting everything caught up with in the office - especially since most of our time was spent getting the Shareholder's packets out for the annual meeting. That was a pain in the ass, but we got it done and out with. Talk about a waste of paper having to change everything out a couple times - with 86 packets to make sure have everything in them and the correct copies of everything... at least we got them done and out in the mail! Now to just wait for the proxy/ballots to come back to us! The Akutan Corporation Annual meeting is set for April 30, 2011! My puppies are getting bigger and getting into more mischief. I love them all to death though, they are just the cutest! I love how they get along with Veronika and how some of them love to nap next to her when she's napping, almost like they are keeping watch over her! She loves to run after them and chase them, then run from them as she lets them chase her, it's so cute!! By the way, yes she is up and running around, she's practically masted that in no time! Now she's all about trying to climb up stuff and jump off of it!! Scares the crap out of me but hey kids will be kids and she's just enjoying learning anything and everything she can!! Ok Bloggers, I promise I will get another post in before this month ends!! Take care and "see" you then!! And don't forget about the Monthly Drawings I'm having with my Scentsy business! For every order made in a calendar month, I will put your name into a drawing for a brick of your favorite Scentsy scent! (A $20 value!). To put your orders in go to: aprilpelkey.scentsy.us and click on the buy tab to place your orders! I love Scentsy and their scents! This month's scent of the month is called Jumpin Jelly Bean and I love how it smells!! So fruity and sweet! I can't wait to see what next month's scent smells like. The Warmer of the Month for next month is this really pretty light blue warmer with tiny white flowers adorning it!!

R.I.P Great Grandma Ivy

I just got news that my Great grandma - my dad's gram - passed away from brain cancer this last night..... :'(

I loved her dearly, she was such a great person! She just turned 91 I believe... She will always live in my memories, I am going to miss her more than words can express.....


LOVE YOU GRANNIE! REST IN PEACE!!

Wish there was a way to go to her funeral (in Washington)... I can't just up and leave though....

:'( - crying............

Grannie, I will see you again one day! Watch over us....