Busy, Busy, Busy...

Phew, as you can probably guess from our lack of postings to the blog that we have been busy. I have had a few added responsibilities given to me at work, Jaycie is becoming more and more of a handful (a fun handful, of course), and me and Shannon have had a busy few months with our Church callings. But excuses aside, we have been enjoying the increasing daylight hours and fewer and fewer days below 20 degrees.

We have had some fun moose sightings last week. There is a big bull hanging out by the parking lot at work, I have seen him twice within a couple of days. Jaycie saw him when she and Shannon came to pick me up from work to head off to lunch. She looked out the window and said "horsey!" He was only about 20 feet away. We also have moose tracks in our front yard! A mom and a yearling live in our neighborhood. I guess they came to check out the Moon's place. We didn't see them, they must have cruised through in the night. Here are some pictures of a moose that we saw during mid-day as we were pulling out of the parking lot of Home Depot in the middle of Anchorage!

As you might be able to see, this is a young bull (antlers have shed, but you can still see the knobs where the antler bases were).

He very calmly and confidently (like he knew where he was going) walked behind the Lowe's hardware store (next store to the Home Depot that we were at).

Here is the first picture of the moose (taken from the passenger seat of the Camry) I saw him walking down the sidewalk from the right (yes, they use the sidewalks!). Luckly, no one had to dive into a snowbank off of the same sidewalk he was traveling as he passed by.

Jaycie at a "bouncy gym." There are a few creative ways that you can still get the kids out of the house and give them a work out while it is too cold to be outside for too long. You probably can't tell by the picture, but Jaycie is on a huge bouncy floor. She loves to jump. There are also a lot of inflatable slides that the kids can go on. Jaycie loves slides. Whenever she sees one she says, WEEEE!"

Cute picture of Jaycie with Daddy's hat on.

Jaycie is now running around and learning new words everyday. I don't know if I mentioned it in past postings, but she is making us very proud in that we have taught her to fold her arms while we pray before eating dinner. Now, when we all sit down to the table with our plates of food, she folds her arms before we do. I peaked at her while we pray and she even bows her head.

We are looking forward to the spring and some fun events that are coming up in Alaska. The Ididarod will be starting shortly and we are hoping to see some of the sleds start the trek from downtown Anchorage. I will also be headed down to SLC for my annual work conference in Midway in July. I will be coming alone as Shannon will be in her third trimester and not able to fly - BUMMER. I hope the family is ready to fish, golf and/or have their Phase Ten skills once again put to the test!