Happy Halloween Week

We have been having such a blast with Grandma Karen! It was fun to have her here a couple days before Denis left and of course wonderful to have her here while he is gone. She is cooking all our favorite meals and treats and it is so nice to have so much help. It is fun to watch her and Mckinley interact. They just make each other giggle!

Mckinley has been saying some new words - chooes (shoes), mo (more), nana (not sure), gamma or gammy (grandma)!

We also carved some pumpkins to get in the holiday spirit! Mckinley wasn't sure what to think of the pumpkin guts - it was funny to watch her face when she touched it for the first time!

Mckinley sees an airplane!

Mckinley loves airplanes! Big surprise! It must be in her genes! Whenever we drive on the Air Force base she always loves looking for them in the sky. Even at our house there is usually a float plane or two in the sky at any one time. She can even pick out the sound of an airplane from inside our house. While we were at Flat Top today there was an airplane in the sky and we were trying to show her where it was. She could hear it and she was looking for it and then she finally spotted it! Denis did a great job of capturing her excitement!

Awesome Autumn

We had an extraordinary day in Anchorage today. It was sunny and bright and even got up to 60 degrees. We wanted to take advantage of the day so we went to Flat Top Mountain to see an amazing view of Anchorage. We were excited to see that there was also an awesome view of Mt. McKinley. We had fun getting lots of shots of Mt. McKinley, our Mckinley and Reganne!

Pumpkin Patch

The fall weather has been pretty good to us in Alaska considering that our family and friends in Minnesota have had snow already! We decided to go pick out some pumpkins while it still seems to be fall here. The closest thing we have to a pumpkin "patch" here is "Bell's Nursery" which had a lot of pumpkins to choose from. We brought our camera and tried to capture Mckinley's first time picking out a pumpkin! We all had fun and even ended our day with some apple cider!