Christmas in Ice 2009

So up here ice sculptures are a big deal. And around the holidays they've got what they call "Christmas in Ice" they have a website if you want to look it up, it's pretty sweet. Anyway, we got the chance to go tonight. We want to go again in a couple days when it's light out to get some more pictures. I have all of them up on my facebook, this just has a taste of what was there. It was pretty cool stuff!! Merry Christmas everyone!!! :D

So we put up our tree today!! And as you can see, it's in our dining room. Our living room is tiny, no room. We went to Walmart yesterday to get shatterproof ornaments. Good thing we did, I can hardly get Kari away from the tree!! Here're a few pics. I just realised that this is our 4th Christmas. It's been an adventure. I love you so much Tyler. Thank you for making me your family. :D

Pies and belly. :D

So I know this is a week late, but I had to show off my pie. It was peach and I made it all by myself. Isn't it pretty? :D
Tyler in his Referee uniform (hottie!)
Me almost 26 weeks
The moon.....at 9 am, that's right, a.m.
And Kari from last Thanksgiving. She's grown so much!!!! :D

By the end of the day, my baby girl is dirty, grumpy and ready for her bath. Bath time is our favorite time. We both love how much fun she has, plus she has to because when you pull out those cute little piggy buns, you get a whole lot of crazy hair!!

There is a downside to night time baths though, because then I get to wake up to this:

Christmas Pictures

Don't you just love Christmas pictures? We just got ours back today, and I think I'm in love. ;) Look how cute we all are!! We'll be sending out Christmas cards within the next two weeks.

Halloween!!

Holy cow it's November!! I'm so excited. That's one month closer to Christmas! Bring it on! Anyway, yesterday was Halloween and it was so much fun! Kari was a fairy. I beefed up her costume by putting her tutu under the skirt to make it fuller and we bought a pair of fairy wings. So cute!!

Tyler decided he wanted to dress up this year (I was shocked, he'd never told me he liked to) anyway so he was Jack Sparrow. It was fun, I got to put make up on my hubby. It took people at church a bit to recognise that he was Tyler.

So I fell back on my one and only costume. Curled my hair and wore a "pirate medalion" and hoped that being with Tyler, people would assume I was Elizabeth Swan. It was pretty funny!

And I did Kari's hair different. She's getting to be so grown up! I parted it down the middle and did two cute little pig tail buns. (Guess who the cutest at the party was? hee hee! :D ) Actually, there were a lot of REALLY cute kids there. I especially loved the twins, one was a peanut, and one was an elephant. lol! I got a good kick out of that one. Anyway, I hope you all had a happy halloween! Thanksgiving in three and a half weeks!! :D

My ultrasound said....

So everyone, it's a girl!!! Karielle is going to be getting a little sister. We're all so excited! :D

Catching up!

Well since the last time I wrote:

We had a snow day! It snowed a couple of days in September (I know, yuck right?) Anyway, Kari had fun walking in it.

3 moose, a momma moose and two baby moose, were chomping leaves at the house across the street. Ariel thought that was pretty cool.

Kari watching Go Diego Go. She loves it because of the animals.

Kari in her Halloween costume. On the day of, she'll be wearing a plain long sleeve onsie, and white tights.

And since I've been getting requests, my HUGE belly at 18 weeks. (For reference, the one of me in black was last time at 19 weeks. Hence, why I think I'm HUGE) :D Miss you all!! We're doing great and we find out if baby is a boy or girl on wednesday! :D

Happy Fall!!

So up here we really only get a few weeks until it's winter (snow sticks first week in October) but I'm excited anyway. The air is crisp, the leaves are changing colors and it's not too cold to take a walk yet. It's been nice and sunny for the last week and it's been gorgeous. We took a trip dow to Anchorage and the colors were amazing, I've never seen anything like it. So while I know that winter is "nipping at my nose" I'm definately enjoying an Alaskan fall.

And then there were 4...

So everyone (who doesn't already know, meaning pretty much everyone but immediate family and Brianna), we are expecting baby number 2. We're due on March 13 and we were able to have an ultrasound on monday and see that everything is going well so far. We'll keep our fingers crossed!! We are very excited!!! Karielle is going to be a big sister!!!

Tyler's promotion and Kari walking, oh my!

Okay, so Kari's not walking BY HERSELF yet, but she walks with the help of her adorable dolly stroller (thank you mom and dad Haueter)

And the office did this nice little ceremony for Tyler and Airmen Davenport for thier promotions to Senior Airmen. They have this tradition where one person on each side sticks the new rank on your shoulder and punch it (to make it stick) in fact, that's how people congratulate you on your new rank, punch your arm as hard as they can. Anyway, so Tyler had his old supervisor on one side, and Karielle and me on the other. Kari got to put the new rank on her daddy (she did have a little help from mommy) but it was so cute. :D

And of course, I had to take a picture of Kari sitting on a chair in her daddy's office. She's such a little daddy's girl. :D