Tuesday, October 26, 2010

New Cards...and update

Last night I made a belated birthday card for our friend Brooke. She had been on vacation over her birthday and I kept forgetting to get it made.

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Then today I made a birthday card for my Nana. Her birthday is at the end of this week.

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This week we are just going back to normal life after having my sister Kim stay with us last week. We enjoyed having her and I know she enjoyed being around Jacob.

In 17 days Jacob and I will be flying to Colorado to visit Hans parents, his oldest sister and her family and his uncle. I am so excited as this will be the first time that our family in CO (besides Oma and Boppy) will get to meet Jacob. I also get to meet my sister-in-laws 9 month old twin girls!

Hans job search is still in the works. He was recontacted by the company in PA and informed that they had sent him the wrong email stating that he was not still being considered for the job, and he really is still being considered for it! Last week they told him they hope to be making job offers sometime this week! I am crossing all my fingers and toes hoping that something great comes of this and that we will finally know where/when we will be going.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

4 years!

Today Hans and I celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary! I can't believe that we have already been married for 4 years! We have been together for 6 years as of next month. In the past 4 years we have had lots of changes, and we look forward to the changes to come for our family!

Since we married in 2006 we have seen job changes for both of us (me with different employers and opening my own business - him changes within the same company). We have bought new cars, furniture, been on a handful of vacations and most importantly started a family by welcoming Jacob into the world.

In the next year I hope to accomplish Hans getting a new job! Moving for that job and getting settled in a new place. Depending on when that actually happens, I want to then buy a house in the area within a year of us moving. Next I want to get Jacob into some kind of preschool program to allow him socializing time with kids his age and allow him to start making friends where ever we move to. Next (will somewhere in the mix) we hope to add to our family by two little feet (no I am not yet pregnant!) but we hope to be by this time next year!

To celebrate we went out to dinner last night with Megan and Mike. We had some great food with some great friends! We will miss them a lot when we move away. :( After dinner we came home and had some Cheesecake for desert! My sister Kim (she is up visiting for the week) watched Jacob for us so we could go out adults only! Then today Hans and I met up and had lunch together!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Cricut card creations!

I have finally gotten around to getting pictures all organized (and downloaded from my camera!) of the cards that I have made with the Cricut! I forgot to take pictures of one thank you card that I made, but besides that here are my cards!

1st card: "Just because" - this was the first thing that I made with the cricut. I followed the directions in one of my books!

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Card # 2: Anniversary card for Megan and Mike - I used a card base that I had but cut the envelope and all the decorations and words. :)

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Card # 3: Baby shower card for Debra -
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Card # 4: Birthday card for Jessica - This card I used a card base and envelope that I had. I cut the decorations / words with the cricut. :)
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Card # 5: Anniversary card for Mark and Diane (Oma and Boppy)
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 Back of card (says: hand made with love)
 

That is all of them for now! Hope you enjoyed looking at them!

Friday, October 8, 2010

PFD Day!!!!

Today is the day that Alaskans love the most! Today is the day that we all woke up to have a nice little deposit of $1,281 each in our banks accounts from the State of AK! We are being smart with ours and they went directly into savings, but let me tell you stores are CRAZY from today and for the next few weeks as people get out and spend spend spend all that "free" money. I purposely stayed away from all stores today because I knew that they would be crazy.

Jacob had his first dentist appointment today! I have been wanting to get him in for just a check as he already has all but his 2 yr molars and they are actually already trying to come in. I had originally called the dentist office that I am a patient at and they said they don't start seeing kids until age 3. I then called a pediatric dentist that my younger sisters used to see and they too didn't want to see him unless he was having a problem until he is 2.5! the reason I want him checked is so that I know that he doesn't have any problems. So today I had my 1/2 yearly cleaning and I was talking to the hygienist and she said that they could see him as she has seen patients younger than 3. Then she asked me if I could bring him back in the afternoon as they had an opening.  So after picking Jacob up from daycare off to the dentists office we went. He did pretty good, they were able to get a good look, and he got a bag full of goodies! We both even got $30 gift cards from their referral program! The dentist told me that his teeth look great and to just keep brushing them 2 times a day. :)

I am really excited for the 17th as my sister Kim is coming to stay with us for a week. She is coming here to help me with a huge project that I have going on and need some extra help with. I have not seen her since Jacob and I stayed at my moms in February and went to WDW in March.

Hans' job search has been going good. He had a phone interview with a company in Baltimore earlier this week. He also received a email back from the company in PA stating that they made a mistake by sending him the email stating that he was no longer in the running and that he truly still is in the running and they will be making their decision the week of October 18th!

On Tuesday and Wednesday nights this week we had ACES HOCKEY!!!! We are very excited that the hockey season is back. These games were the preseason games where they paint the ice purple (the previous 3 years it has been pink) for cancer awareness. All the profits from the games went to the local Breast Cancer and one other cancer charity. We came to the realization that hockey games and Jacob are not going to be easy. He didn't want to sit in his seat, and would have much preferred to be able to go up and down the stairs constantly. It got so bad at Wednesday's game that we had to leave early. From now on I believe that we will be getting a baby sitter for the games that we go to.

I have finally downloaded the pictures from my camera from the last month and I will post some in the next few days! I have lots of pictures of some really cute cards that I have been making with the cricut!