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The Road to Walking

Jase's First Birthday

Hawaii Pictures

Sorry I've been so slow to add these, we've been back for a month now but the weekends have been busy since we got back. We spent a weekend with my parents snowmobiling in Petersville, which was a lot of fun. The next weekend we had a party for Jase's first birthday, on Valentine's Day of course. I will post those pictures later. This last weekend we spent at Home Depot, working on our Home Energy Rebate project. We're getting a new furnace, water heater, insulation in the crawl space and attic, new garage door, and two new exterior doors all courtesy of the State. It's a pretty sweet deal. Other than that we're just trying to coax Jase into walking, he took a few steps Wednesday night but hasn't ventured out on his own yet. I'm hoping he'll pick it up soon because he needs to be a pretty decent walker before the new baby comes July 1st, or I'll be in for a world of hurt. Enjoy the pics...

Hawaii

Funny man goes to Hawaii

I still don't have any pictures from Christmas since our camera was in the back of Jeff's truck. I'm waiting for people to send me some, which could take a long long time. Here's some good random pictures of the little funny man who discovered it's fun to smash his face on the glass.

We're leaving for Hawaii on Thursday. We're spending three nights in Honolulu then six in Kauai. We cannot wait to get out of this -10 degree weather and slip into the 70's and 80's. Till then....

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody! We had a blast this Christmas, first time with the baby is very memorable. We spent Christmas Eve in Anchorage with the Lantz/Walters family. There was so much food there it was unbelievable. I ate so many appetizers that I couldn't even force myself to eat the main course or any of the 6 pies. Jase got a killer present from his Great-grandma Bernice. It's a little Giraffe that you put the ball in it's mouth and it spins around the body and shoots out the bottom. He absolutely loves it, so much so that he wasn't interested in opening any more presents after that one.

Christmas day was nice and relaxing, just the three of us opening presents this morning. Jase got his first dinosaur and powerwheels fourwheeler. He loves riding the fourwheeler, but hasn't figured out that he can push the button himself to make it go. That evening, all the Walters and Iagulli's came over for dinner. It was nice to have everybody together -- minus one unfortunately -- Grandma Janis' flight was cancelled. But the good news is now she still has her airline miles to come up this July to see the newest addition. That's what tonight was all about, Jase made the big announcement that "Shhh....Mommy has a secret in her belly". It was pretty funny watching everybody read it and the faces as they figured it out. Well duty calls....will post pictures soon.....

Trip to the North Pole

Friday night we took Jase to the "North Pole" (Palmer, AK) to see Santa Claus. My company (MTA) puts on a childrens X-mas party every year. They spend quite a bit of money and make it really nice for the kids. They had a cake walk where they had bought a cake for every kid so it was kind of a sure thing (we got two :). They also had an ornament making center which we skipped, sandwiches, chips, and juice. Best of all they had an amazing looking Santa, who had a nice toy for every kid. I was impressed because they didn't just give every kid the same toy, they had a huge variety based on age and several different ones for each age group. We met up with our friends Akhil and Marie and their sone Ravi. He's a month older than Jase. We've been getting pictures of the two of them together as they grow up so we got Santa pictures together as well. Ravi was hamming it up and Jase was scared to death, it was pretty cute.