Friday, July 8, 2011

Well I'm sad to say but we are no longer expecting due to me having a miscarriage.... :( We were told we can try again in 6 weeks or so.... I'm really sad but trying to not let it get me down. It's what God wanted and He will let me have a second baby when the timing is right.... Until then back to trying again!

The weather has been nice the last couple days and today it's blowing a bit but at least it's dry out! We have that luminous fog back too!! Yesterday it was sooo nice out (the calm before the storm), the sun stayed out until I got off work then it got cloudy, but that didn't stop me from bbq-ing up some fresh halibut that I got from my dad!!

Veronika is getting bigger and bigger everyday. I swear some days she looks a lot taller than she was a couple days ago! She has all of her teeth and she hates to have her teeth brushed but it has to be done! She still doesn't drink any juices (unless the granparents spoil her with some). I still need to get her weaned, but she's down to wanting it only when she's hurt or when she's tired. She is weighing in aroun 32lbs and I have to measure her to get her official height! She is wearing size 3T clothes (can still squeeze into 2T) and wearing size 7 shoes!! I can't believe how fast she's been growing!! Just shows how fast time goes by!!

Still waiting for salmon to show up like they did a couple years ago. I think I'm going to have to have the hubby borrow a net and skiff and go see what he can find out there... my dry rack, buckets and freezers are pretty empty (with salmon at least). My dad has been helping me fill my freezer with fresh halibut at least!! I'm loving using my Foodsaver to seal up all my fish!! I made some pickled salmon from my salted salmon from last year! It turned out awesome, Roni has been eating it up!! I need to send a couple jars to my sisters before we hog it all up!! I ordered some snagging hooks on eBay so I can at least go get me some humpies before all the fish are gone (that's when the humpies show up). Humpies (or pink salmon) are easier to dry!!

I am going to get my flower sprouts in dirt and put them in the window or outside and see how they do.... I think I started them way too late in the season for them to flower this year... but we'll see. My strawberry plants in my old bbq are flowering and looks like I'll have a lil bounty of fresh Aleutian strawberries this year!! I'm excited about that!! I harvested about 15 red bell peppers from my bell pepper plants!! They are sooo sweet tasting!! Even Roni liked them when I washed one and chopped it up!! We shared it with our canary Sylvester!!

The State Ferry is coming in again tomorrow. So I know people are going to do their Dutch run! We aren't going this trip... Saving up for our vacation!! Ohhh the other day we had an actual "cruise" ship come in the bay and they were dropping off passengers in town to check everything out. Too bad they came in really early on a weekend, way before anything was open!! But at least the weather was decent for them!! It was weird they all wore these bright red coats.... maybe it was a security thing with their boat. I didn't stop to ask any of them....

My hubby is really proud of his cruiser bicycle!! I got him a luggage rack, front basket, and a bell and now to surprise him I'm getting him a waterproof speaker set that hooks up to the handle bars and has an iPod hookup. I think I have to get him a new seat here sometime too... I rode his bike the other day and didn't like how the seat felt, he hasn't complained about it yet.... It's so cute how he treats his bike! LOL.... It's a really nice bike though!! He's just happy that he can take our groceries and mail home on it with no problems instead of carrying them by hand from the Store or Post Office all the way up to our house - which is located at the other end of town.

The island is super green right now, and before we notice it, everything is going to start dying and turn brown once again. The 4th of July was pretty nice!! We had a huge fireworks show!! We even had the AVO people and others not from here say that was the best fireworks show they've ever seen in AK yet!! It was over an hr of huge fireworks!!! Roni ended up watching for like 10 mins then passed out!! That girl can sleep thru anything!! The picnic and games were also fun, seemed like we had less games than we usually have but that because they decided to serve food half way into the games and everyone got to fat and full to want to play anymore games. But over all it was a great day! Veronika had a blast playing on the Bounce Around thing that one of the families shared with the kids. Veronika ended up getting a good lil tan, the only part on me that tanned was my feet :(

Hoping we get more good weather days before the summer ends!! Also hoping that we get some fish this year too to put away in our freezers!! We'll see though.....

Ok well I hope all is great with all you bloggers and blog readers!! Take care and until next time, TTFN!!

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!!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

So the last couple weeks I've been taking care of the Post Office since our post master left to Anchorage. She's been stuck in Dutch Harbor now for almost a week waiting for a plane to come home. We got about 4 flyable days this month. All the mail is sitting in Dutch Harbor waiting to come over. I still never got Roni's, my hubby's or my Christmas presents in yet. Not to mention my dogs are running really low on kibble. The puppies ate up all the puppy food and are eating adult food, which I don't have much of anymore. I ordered their food just after Halloween too!!

The weather has been acting funny. Some days it's cold out with an even colder wind chill... other days it's in the low to mid 40's, calm but foggy. Today is one of those warm, calm foggy days! I was able to get my Christmas cards in on one of the planes and got most of them back out (all but 10 that I need addresses for). They are finally getting to people the last couple days. Late but at least they got out!!

Veronika had a great 1st Christmas, opening presents from the grandparents, Aunts and Uncles!! We had a couple for her that we got back when we went to Seattle in Sept-Oct. I can't believe that she's already 9 months old!! She's been out of me for as long as she was in me!! She has all 4 top and bottom teeth for a total of 8 teeth!! She's currently 28lbs and 30.5in long!! She loves to pull up to standing and "cruise" around on anything she can hold onto! I've been slowly getting her to eat more chunkier foods, she loves fish and veggies and fruit!! I'm waiting on more baby food that my sister Ivy send down for her from Wal-Mart and Fred Meyer. Oh and I finally put her in size 5 diapers! Here at the Post Office she's been able to try out a walker, but only goes backwards! I think it's funny!!

The puppies are going to be 9 wks old tomorrow, time goes by way too fast. I already have to administer their 9wk puppy shots tomorrow, which I am not looking forward to doing. They all know their names and are learning simple commands. They are fully weaned and eating kibble now. Next week Chi Chi and Ashes will be ready to go to their homes! The rest I'm keeping, which includes Diego, Juarez, Tinker Bell and Snookii! So in a lil over a year I should have more puppies to sell - all of my puppies have full registration, fully de-wormed, will have their 2nd puppy shots and hopefully get their rabies vaccinations! The parents have great temperaments and I am getting them pad trained (potty trained). I just love having Chihuahuas! They will fall in the 6-8lb range! I am currently writing up a puppy contract by combining the contracts from my 3 previous Chi's!

Other than that the island has been pretty quiet. Josy and Tim threw a big dinner at their place on Christmas Eve, which is also the birth date of their youngest boy Ian! Veronika had fun being around all the family and friends, but by 45 mins I believe she got overwhelmed with everyone and started to get fussy. But there was a lot of great food and I had a great time! On Christmas we had a big ham dinner at my parents house with more family and friends! I love living where we are with most of our extended family!!

My nieces had a great time enjoying all the gifts I got them for Christmas! I had a great time shopping for them. I am still waiting for some stuff to come in for them. I heard I have like a plane load of stuff sitting at Pen-Air cargo waiting to come over to me. All the stuff I ordered from Kohls, Petsmart, Walmart, Amazon, Victoria's Secret, Wet Seal and a hand full of other places!! Well most is UPS, which is considered cargo and the rest was sent thru the USPS. Either way I should have a lot of stuff over there waiting to get to me that I've been waiting almost 2 months for!! Hopefully the weather clears and we can get some planes in and get all the stuff sitting over there over here!!

I still can't believe it's going to be 2011 already... I remember the whole Y2K frenzy like it was yesterday!! This year went by way too fast!! I am trying to upload pix of Veronika over the last couple months but blogger is having one of those days where it doesn't let me upload pix and when it does it goes super slow... but hopefully soon I'll have updated pix of her over the last couple months!!

Well I hope everyone has a prosperous, safe, fun New Years!! Take care Bloggers and we'll be "seeing" you next year!! Much love from my family to yours!!

Pix...

My Chocolate ducky... instead of chocolate bunny - Interesting what they come up with for Easter these days! There is a chocolate Cow and Pig too!

If you look closely, you will see masses of seagulls flying in the sky!

My lil bro-in-law Tom and a couple of his friends playing Mario Kart on my Wii at my in-law's crib.

The Journey of the Crab Cake------ :D

Shucking the crab from the shell, the ripping the meat up (so sad to mutilate it that way.. I prefer mine straight out of the shell dipped in butter, but the hubby wanted crab cakes...)

My Hubby actually crying... LOL.. of course after he got done cutting up the onion, then frying it for me!

Everything I need... missing one thing of Ritz in the pic..

All the ingredients in the bowl waiting to be mixed... lol at the mayo and mustard -looks like an egg!

Frying up one batch while I'm forming my next...

Making the crab cakes, making sure they fit in my palm..

Frying them up

Hot out of the frying pan

3 crab cakes plated and ready to eat!