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!!