Melia got her glasses!

After 5 weeks of waiting, here they are! They already make a huge difference. She looked at my face like, "That's what you really look like!?" haha She says that "Outside looks silly!" She was scared to walk at first because her depth perception was off , but it is already catching on. She is watching Tinkerbell right now (she has seen it like 100 times) and she is saying wow at every part like she has never seen it. The doctor showed us what the world looked like to her... all I can say is Wow! It made me go cross eyed! I am SO glad we went in!

The Dells came to visit Washington!

Our friends, The Dells, came to visit this past weekend from Rexburg, Idaho. They came on Wednesday and stayed through Monday. They have two little girls around the ages of Melia and McKenzie. We went to the Children's Museum on Thursday, we did a little shopping on Friday down at the Woodburn outlets (AMAZING!), Saturday was an interesting day (haha!) and Sunday was just a relaxing day! Here is a recap of the events with some pictures!

Children's Museum
Well we started out by brushing the crocodile's teeth, which Melia has been scared to do before and she finally just climbed up and did it!

After that, we went to the Water exhibit. They have aprons that they can put on so they don't get wet and all the girls LOVED this exhibit!

Then we headed over to the hospital area with the babies and ambulance. The girls loved all of it! McKenzie really liked the phone and computer she could play with!

So this photo above is a funny story... it is where you walk into the exhibit. Melia would not go in, she was at the point where she was about to scream and was holding on to me like she was going to die. I asked her why and she said there was a big monkey... yeah, the lady with the big hair sitting there. I had to take her around to show it was a woman, not a monkey!


That's a health teacher's daughter! :)
The bigger girls went on with the moms to go face paint, play with clay, play at the theater and shopping at the grocery store! The younger girls went a played in the baby room with the dads. Oh! We also went into the building room, where Sadie went straight in and demolished a boy's log cabin that he had just made. We felt REALLY bad! At the end, we went and played in the tree house then we left because we wanted to beat the traffic!

The Rest of the Weekend

On Friday night, Linzi and I took Melia and Rylee to Dairy Queen after a failed attempt at going to the Friday Night Farmer's Market... the girls loved it though!

The older girls also got matching pj's on our shopping trip. They also loved reading stories on the computer... nickjr.com... AWESOME! Melia also got a new hat for the winter and loves to wear it around the house!

We loved having the Dells come and visit and we definitely miss them! The girls love to play together. We make it a yearly thing to visit!

P.S. More info about us... I am starting to sub any day now, Treven has decided to go part time at school because of the non resident tuition being 10,000 a semester and he gets residency in April, and he will be getting a full time job or 2 part time jobs while he is going part-time to school. We are hoping that we get the transporter job that he applied for at the hospital. It would be perfect, calls for interviews should be this week (crossing our fingers). Please keep us in your prayers! Melia's glasses should be getting in this week!

How could you NOT love these girls?!

Before we went to the zoo with the rest of the Perry family!

The verdict is...

Melia needs glasses!

Woo hoo... I am actually feeling really bad for her for some reason. Well, I hated glasses and looked like the biggest dork in the world. But it doesn't matter, here is the story!

It all started because she started doing a "stink eye" whenever she was looking at someone or watching a movie and she started doing it more often in the last like 4 months. Treven would mess around with her and sound like he was angry, but have a happy face or an angry face and she would do the "stink eye" and then based on what she saw she would react happy or sad.

So we decided, "Okay, we need to take her to the eye doctor." I finally called about 2 weeks ago to go in and see him. Today was the day. He first did the eye test, which included pictures not letters, and she would tell him what she saw. She got really frustrated about the 4th or 5th line down and just gave up. She just kept saying "Boat. Boat. Boat". Then he dropped some eye drops in to make her pupils nice and dilated. When we went back in, he had her watch a cartoon in a machine while he looked at her eyes and then he looked at her eyes with two other machines. Then he told us... She is EXTREMELY far-sighted. He said her eyes are trying so hard to focus on things around her that she just gives up and does the "stink eye". It makes sense even more though, because she gives up on coloring and just wants us to do it and we are trying to teach her what the letters look like and she gets frustrated and gives up.

So now it will be fixed with glasses. I will definitely be getting her contacts when she is old enough because that was the BEST thing ever for me in middle school. Her glasses will be in the office in 3 weeks at the longest. The doctor picked them out, not my favorite, but they are pink and they do look cute on her. He said they are the best for her age because they are durable. We will have to get new ones in a year because of her growth so I figure I can pick out cuter ones then.

Well there is the excitement at our house right now! Hopefully it will help her with things that she has been having problems with!

Crazy-Kenz is 1 year old!

Happy Birthday to McKenzie! It is crazy that a year ago today she was born, I just graduated, and moving on to start my student teaching. It seems like it was not that long ago. She brings joy and laughter to our family everyday even if she is very serious some times. She is walking now and loves to grab our hands and take us around the house. McKenzie loves to play with the toy kitchen pans, loves to put on necklaces, and LOVES to brush her hair! We couldn't imagine our family without her! Happy Birthday!

We found it!

We have an apartment and we are moving in on Monday! We got a great deal on it: we get the rest of July RENT FREE, we got 1/2 the moving cost and deposit, we got $100 off rent each month. It has new paint which is like a beige color, not white which I am so happy for, new carpet, new wood floor, washer and dryer, and IKEA lighting! The wood floor is the dining room which the dining room is actually A ROOM! I love the windows. There is a patio and a fireplace and they are completely okay with us hanging our TV up on the wall.

There is a swimming pool, fitness center, computer room where Treven can study! Our building is right next to their "stream" on one side and the playground on the other. We do have an upstairs apartment but it is bigger.

Oh one more thing! The floor and the middle wall are the only sharing walls to other apartments. No rooms are attached to the other apartments so no hearing every little thing!

We are very excited and can't wait to get our own place to call home! Oh, and Melia loves it! :)

Coldplay Concert 7/10/2009

Loved the concert! It was amazing! My parents gave us tickets for our birthdays. It was the Viva La Vida show but they played a lot of songs from other albums. They also gave us a free live CD on the way out of the concert which was awesome. I took some pictures so you can see where we were at. There was one point during the concert when they were about 30 feet away from us! And they did a cover of Billy Jean by Michael Jackson which was awesome. You can look it up on youtube.

Treven and I right before the concert started! It was so humid and hot!

Clocks

Yellow

Yellow

Politik

View of stage from our seats