Long time no see!

The other day I was thinking:  "oh my!  I haven't blogged in...forever!"

And then I talked to my mom, and she mentioned something about not getting any updates.

I know.  I know.  I've been slacking.

So here we go.

Updates.

We spent Christmas in Broomfield Colorado with most of Luke's family.  It was fun to see everyone!  Luke hadn't even met his nephew James-who is almost a year old!  We also got to see my sister Wendi before she left for Utah for Christmas.  And we went to Franktown to see my "work family"!  (Yay for clean teeth!!!  And no cavities!)  We also got to hang out and have dinner with some of our friends in Parker.  And we got to meet their cute kids!  We got to meet April's baby Luke (great name choice) and Chan and Steven's baby Beckett (who I like to call Baby "B".)

And we ate at Chic-fil-a whenever we could.

Oh Colorado (and Utah for that matter)...  Why do you have to be so far away?

Lame.

Here are some of the very few pictures I took on our trip...

The living nativity.   Featuring Chase as baby Jesus, Mason as Joseph, Avery as Mary, and James as a cow...(they were in a stable after all...)

The paparazzi...

We even got a white Christmas!  (which hasn't happened in Colorado for a long time...)

Now we're back to life in Alaska.  We got back the day after Christmas and we were welcomed with temps above freezing which we hoped meant more snow.  (It's been a little light on the snow here so far this winter.)  Instead we got rain.  Which means the snow we did have quickly turned to ice.  (We are thinking of buying a Zamboni and starting up a hockey league in our cul-de-sac.)

Check out this icy treacherousness:

See...all we need to do is smooth it out, and put up a fence.  It's practically hockey-ready!

All I have to say is having studded tires on our vehicles and ice-trekkers for our shoes has saved us from a lot of slipping and sliding and face-breaking!

Only 4 more months of winter to go!  Wahoo!

And in other news- for those of you who don't know...Luke and I are expanding our family!

Little baby Hanzon is due June 12.  Our ultrasound appointment is next week.  And the week after that is my 20 week/half way mark.  CRAZY!  We didn't tell anyone until right before Christmas.  (We are super sneaky like that!)

Things have gone pretty well so far.  Some days are definitely better than others!  I now have a super sensitive nose (if I had a super power- I would NOT want it to be smell!), food isn't as exciting as it used to be (which would be good...if I were on a diet!), and my sleeping patterns are very similar to that one time...when I had MONO!

Oh and I feel like I should get a sticker every time I eat vegetables.  Fruit is ok.  Veggies...they're a bit harder.

Salad gives me heartburn.  And so do brownies.  (C'mon silly baby...You can't punish me for BOTH!  Pick one.  Healthy?  Unhealthy?  It must be a girl.  Or I guess it could be a super indecisive boy...)

So here's to a new year and whole new experiences!

The adventure continues...