2010 Review in pictures!

I know this is a little late, but here it is!

January: Football time with Dad!

 February: Trip to Grandma's in AZ

 March: Disney World!!!

 April: Jacob turns 1!

 May: Nice Alaska weather...so swinging at the park!

 June: Daddy turns 26...

 Reading with Oma.....

 and Fathers Day with Daddy and Boppy!

 July: Oma and Boppy move to Colorado :(....

 But we go camping for the first time as a family!

 And then go camping again in Homer, Alaska a few weeks later!

 Daddy also gets Jacob's foot prints put on his back!

 August: Mommy turns 26, and Grandma and Aunt Sara visit us!

 September: My Great Nephew Alanzo joins the world!

 October: MICKEY MOUSE!

 And we have our Christmas Card family picture taken! Mommy and Daddy also celebrate their 4th wedding Anniversary!

 November: Jacob and Mommy go Visit Oma and Bobby in CO (and other family!)

 December: Christmas at Grandma's in Arizona!

Looking back we had a very good year! We had lots of travels last year that we enjoyed greatly!

Vacation booked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In October, Hans and I will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary! I have been kicking around the idea of us going on a trip to celebrate. We both enjoy cruises (we have been on 2) and we have the itch to go on another. Without telling him, I have been looking into them and found one that I really liked. I got all the way to the purchase screen and then asked for his opinion. He liked the one that I picked out, but is hesitant due to him changing jobs and not knowing if he will have the leave time available. I asked him if he would be up to booking it if the cruise line still had the cancellation policy that would refund all the deposit up until the "pay by date". He said as long as this was still in effect that we could go ahead and book!!! I called to verify that if we needed to cancel, we would receive the $500 deposit back and we would as long as we cancel by August 2nd!

We will be cruising on the Carnival Legend for 7 beautiful days! We are leaving out of Tampa, FL and will be stopping at Cozumel Mexico,  Belize, Isla Roatan, and Grand Cayman! We are NOT taking Jacob, as this is a mommy and daddy trip! We plan on leaving him with either Hans parents, or my mom (we will let them fight over who gets him for the week!)

I am so excited...October can't get here soon enough! I really hope that we don't have to end up canceling this as we are both looking forward to it!

Week 2 of 52 weeks in pictures!

I know I am a day late, but it has been a crazy few days around here. Jacob is still sick :( I took him to the doctor today and he has a sinus infection and is now on antibiotics. So hopefully we will be back to normal soon. Because he is sick he has been such a pill. I have never seen him throw so many tantrums in such a short amount of time. God help us when the "terrible two's" come around!

Here is my picture of the week! Hope you like it! (and a extra because I love how my friend Megan is looking at Jacob!)  

 Playing in my snow boots can wear a boy out!

"Auntie" Megan and Jacob!

Eek! Only 100 days until Jacob's 2nd birthday!

This morning when I opened my internet and my home page came up it is one of the baby websites that I used to chat on a lot. One of the things that it has in the corner is how many days until your child's next birthday. Well this morning it says 100 days! I can't believe that Jacob will be 2 so soon. One part of me wants to start planning a party, but the other part of me knows that I need to wait as we should be moved by then and I have no idea where we will be living and how big of a party we will be able to have for him.

The past few days we have been a house with a sick toddler, and a mommy in pain. On Tuesday I had some dental work done and am still in pain from it. :( The dentist finally called me in some pain meds yesterday and they worked wonders last night. Jacob on the other hand spiked a fever last night and I was up with him from 2:30 am until about 4 trying to get his fever to break. If finally did and we went back to bed until about 10:30am.

Today if things work out the way I had planned them, I will be starting on some new cards. We have Oma's birthday next week, then our twin niece turn 1 the first week of February, our second oldest niece Emma turns 5, and our oldest niece Kaylee turns 18 in February. Then of course there is Valentines day and I want to send all the nieces and nephew a valentines day card. And if I have the extra time I would like to make up some card and send them to http://www.cardcupids.org/. They collect cards for different holidays and send them to kids in hospitals that are sick!

On the job search front.....we are still in limbo. Hans was offered a job from one company, and has an interview with another company on Wednesday. He is holding off making his final decision if he wants to take the offered job until after having the interview for the other. So we may know as soon as next week if we are moving soon!

Hair cut!

Jacob has been in the need of a hair cut lately. The problem is that he doesn't really sit still if I take him to get his hair cut, so I end up paying for a crappy cut. Before our trip I bought a clipper set and was going to buzz off his hair. However after multiple people telling me that I shouldn't do that, I should just trim the areas that were long I took advantage of him playing in the bathroom sink (one of his favorite things to do!). Yesterday he was in the bathroom as I was getting ready and he actually was allowing me to comb his hair. I realized that he was being so still, so I grabbed my hair cutting scissors and went to town. There are a few areas that don't quite look professional, but that is ok because I am not one! My mom asked me if I put a bowl on his head, and I did not (it appears that I did due to some of the pictures and the length of his hair.)

Before cut :) 

After cut :) 

Week 1 of 52 weeks in pictures!

I have decided that I am going to do a picture of the week for the year in an attempt to increase my blogging. I figured a 365 would be a big jump, but posting at least once a week is a much easier start! My goal is to post a picture each Sunday of something that happened during the prior week. I received a new camera for Christmas, and can't wait to use it as much as possible.

This is Hans and me (please excuse my attire, Jacob ended up sick and by this point I had been puked on about 5 times and was running out of clothes) Our friends Autumn and her boyfriend Daniel on New Years Eve in Las Vegas!

Happy New Year!

I can't believe that it is already 2011! We have had a very busy month with the holidays and traveling. I will post more about it later!

December already???

Where in the world has the time gone??? I can't believe that it is already December! We have had such a busy few weeks and it is just going to get even more crazy over the next few weeks.

Jacob and I had a really good vacation to CO! We enjoyed spending time with Oma, Boppy, Jessica, Caleb and the twins Julianna (Jules) and Katherine (Kat). We went to the children's museum and had a blast! It is such a neat place to take kids. Another day we went to the Denver zoo and had a great time looking at all the animals. We lucked out the day that we went to the zoo as it was in the 50's. The day before and the day after it was down in the 30's! We also enjoyed shopping (OK, so I enjoyed it more than Jacob!) at stores that we do not have here in AK. Then before Oma and Boppy left for Hawaii, we took the twins and Jacob for pictures. They turned out so so so cute! (look below for some examples!)

Once we were home it was time for Thanksgiving! I cooked a big (19lbs!) turkey along with the fixings. We had Megan and Mike, as well as my dad and my uncle Tom over. Megan made some really yummy rolls to go along with our yummy dinner. :)

The next week and a half will be busy doing things around the house and town. My mom and sister Sara are flying in on Saturday night. Hans and I will be at his companies Christmas party, so we will see them after we leave that. My mom is only staying until Wednesday and then she is flying onto Canada for a few days while Sara stays here with us. Then on the 14th, Sara, Jacob and I will all fly down to Las Vegas and stay there until the 17th when Hans comes down. We will then make our way to my moms in AZ for Christmas and then we are going back to Vegas for NYE!!! During the time that we are down in AZ, Hans will most likely be making a side trip North Dakota to visit a company that he interviewed with this past Monday via Skype! The interview went really good and we have a good feeling about this job prospect!!

OK for some pictures:

Denver Children's Museum

 Pictures from JCP

 

 Mommy and Jacob at the Denver Zoo!

 And last, but not least....Jacob with Santa!