It's Official

This picture is totally unrelated to our announcement but I had to share it some time. Gotta love the bug eyed little girl.

After several months of denial and job searching we have decided that we will be moving back to Anchorage. Its not that we don't love living in Ketchikan. The prospect of actually getting a job that either of us consider a career is much greater in Anchorage than in Ketchikan. So we will be moving out of our apartment to house sit for my grandparents for six weeks then we will be packing up and moving around the middle of March. There is a possibility that I will be getting a job before then but we will see how it goes. Once we finally move we will be living with... you guessed it... my ever loving parents who are happy to house their bum children with families in tow while they get settled.

For our friends in Ketchikan we have a couple more months to kick it in K-town. As fun filled as the coming months will be we will be sad to leave the life we had started here. At the same time we are also excited for the sweeping changes that moving north can bring. We feel that we have been stagnating as we have fruitlessly attempted to commit to living in Ketchikan. We will be seeing most of you before we leave but we hope that you will come and visit us up north some time. My parents have a large house and I'm sure they more than welcome the guests. Just remember that unless you feel like skiing summers are the time to visit.

We are grateful for all of our friends and family that will be helping us in the coming months.

Ian, out.
Peace.

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Potty Time

First thing Eve said this morning is "Mommy I spilled!" I thought what did she spill in her crib, did she pee? Then I went into her room to investigate... she got water babies for Christmas and she must have decided to undress the baby and during this process pulled the plug on the baby and the baby was peeing all over her crib. She wanted out of her crib so that she could put the baby on the potty.

She was hilarious today. This video was so funny. She spent a good half hour with that tiny little baby moving from one "toilet" to the other, and picking off little bits of toilet paper to wipe the baby's butt. Kids crack me up!

Santa

Eve loves Santa. She told me this... she loves that Santa brings her presents. She had a really hard time waiting the entire 5 days between her birthday and Christmas... it just isn't fair to get a taste of opening presents and not be able to open every present in sight!! On Christmas Eve we decided that Eve could wait in her room and Santa would come deliver one of her presents early. She was so excited to hear the loud noise and the HO HO HO of Santa and then be able to run out into the living room and there was this amazing toy from Santa. She played with it well past bed time.

Christmas was wild, she woke up and we opened presents here, then we went to my mom's house and Eve indulged in a TON of candy, then we moved the party over to Ian's grandparent's house for more present opening. By the time we opened presents at Ian's grandparent's house Eve's enthusiasm was not the same at all, she still enjoyed it but after an entire day of presents and candy she was kind of exhausted!!

Then we went home and watched a movie as a family. It was fun to be with all of the different relatives and have so much Christmas! Eve still thinks that there should be presents to be opened and wonders where Santa went. Next year will be a blast... she might connect the Christmas decorations in stores with Santa... then we will be in major trouble!!

Eve's Birthday

I can't believe that it has been two years since Eve was born. She is growing so fast and entertaining me more and more each day. I am so happy to be her mom, she is the sweetest little person!

She loves her tea set that she got for Christmas. She has had many tea parties... which require us sitting down so she can serve us. I am glad that we got her a toy that she enjoys so much! Now we just need to invite little girls her age over for tea parties... she would enjoy that so much more!!

Happy Birthday!!

So Sunday was a big day!! Ian and Eve got to share another birthday together. It was a lot of fun. We woke up in the morning and let her open a present (the book Olivia-she is obsessed). Then we went to my mom's. There she opened her Fancy Nancy themed presents. At church she got just what she likes most.... lots and lots of music! Not once did she have to ask for more music please.

Then we headed home and rested for a while (opened and played with her tea set) before heading over to Ian's grandparent's house for the party. The party was for family which there is plenty of right now. Ian's parents and sister are in town, or course his grandparents are here, my mom, Alice and Andrew. It was a wild party. We enjoyed lots of finger foods and angel food cupcakes with strawberry cool whip frosting.

Ian's family really outdid themselves with the presents. Just when you thought it was over more presents were opened. It cracked me up. I can't even list all of the things that she scored. Now she is obsessed with presents. She wants to open more presents please. We keep on telling her how many sleeps before Christmas when she can open more presents. She cracks me up.

The day after her birthday we went to the doctor's office bright and early for her 2 year checkup and she did amazing. She didn't even cry when they gave her a shot!! I couldn't believe it.

She got to finish off that day with a sleepover with Grandma Kim, Anica, Al, and Grandma and Grandpa Sybesma. She loved it!! Of course she is so in love with sleepovers that tonight she is away again... with my mom, Andrew and Alice. It is nice to have the quiet... but weird having her gone so much in one week. But everyone isn't home all of the time for her to party with them so it is nice for her to be able to do that... and nice for me and Ian to have some time to ourselves. Maybe that is her birthday present to him.

Busy Girl

Eve always wants to do the things that we do. Her favorite place in the house is the office. We keep the door closed so she can't get in there are destroy everything all of the time. It is kind of nice to know that there is one spot that I can depend on to be clean.

When Eve does get to go in the office one of her first stops is usually to the treadmill. She is obsessed with "running" on the treadmill. This time she even got my running shoes on so that she would really be ready to run. I think it is adorable. Nothing like running in the tutu, running shoes, and pajama shirt... that is style!!

Baby Pumpkin

Last Saturday we decided to carve pumpkins. When we went to the store to get them Eve decided that she needed a baby pumpkin. What was hilarious about this is that the store we went to only had baby pumpkins for decorations so we had to go to an entirely different store to get Eve her baby pumpkin.

She loved the process, especially the special tools for carving. She wasn't really into the guts this year but she had fun. You can see the picture of her pumpkin. She got to choose various shapes for the eyes, nose, and she was determined that the mouth had to have teeth. She is really proud of that pumpkin and keeps on trying to sneak him into the house. It has been very rainy and I think she is afraid of that poor baby pumpkin drowning. We have to empty the rain water out of him every day. She also has to give him a kiss every time that we leave the house.