Gingerbread building and smashing extravaganza

Jesses flowing hair

Nanook looks a little angry

Merry Christmas!

Best present ever! David did a charcoal drawing of the ladies and made the frame. Aren't we a good looking family

Life in the city (well kind of)

I had my work Christmas party at our house last night and let me say it started off on the right foot.

My doorbell rings and as I go to answer I here the girls outside scream. Turns out a little kitten that lives across the street decided to tempt fate and got hit by a truck. They saw truck hit it and the kitten continued to flop around after it was hit. So now at this point, (it is dead) we are all standing by the street watching this while the mama and other little kittens are coming into the street to get it (mind you this is a busy street and many cars are passing and it is dark). So in order to avoid seeing another death, I go into the back yard and grab my shovel. Then I go into the middle of the street with cars on both sides and pick up the dead kitten and carry it on my shovel to the neighbors house and put it near their front door. As soon as I put it down the other kittens start eating it. Nice. Don't fear the reaper.

6 Months

Maybe its time to clean our windows...

Its baby room time! The room was a wonderful poop brown (which if you recall our whole house was painted this color, walls and ceilings) so after 3 layers of primer David was ready to start. We (and by we I mean David) picked a light green and yellow. This is what the ladies did instead of help paint.

YEAH! David finished it! We are going to put a trim as a border between colors. Now all we need to do is find a baby to put in the room... I wonder where we can find one?

My feet hurt....

Oh No

So I realize that this will make me sound really vain, but I don't care.
I have basically been the same size since 9th grade. I don't own any "fat jeans" or "skinny jeans" for that matter, they are all jeans but now I really wish I had a couple good pairs of fat jeans. I have been able to get away with my regular pants so far during pregnancy but now are just not quite cutting it. And the down side of being the first one prego in your group of friends means no hand-me-downs, which means I need a new wardrobe, which means I need $. So you see where the problem comes in. The icing on the cake was today when Sade (char-day) said to me... "Don't take this the wrong way Rachel but are getting a ghetto booty", which would explain why my pants don't fit.... And you know what I don't think I am okay with that.

Happy Thanksgiving

Oh the little ladies love the snow

I have been telling David lately that my ideal day off consists of sleeping in and waking up to snow falling as I lay in my cozy bed and watch it. I got my wish this morning, and it was everything I imagined it to be. I even woke up to the smell of cinnamon rolls which David made. So we took the dogs on a death march through the snow and will soon be off to Heather and Graysons for some delicious food!

It's a GIRL!

So we are having a little lady. Here comes the payback for all the hell I put my mom through.
Believe it or not I'm 5 months prego in this picture. Let the chaos begin....

The newest family edition

Guess who has a new child? Thats right we got another dog. Her name is Nanook and she is great. Timber and Nanook are best friends. Cant you just tell by Timbers expression?

Not bald

and david is not balding in that picture, the sun just makes it look that way

TIMBER!

Amy found these shirts and mailed them to us. Seriously the best present ever.

Well I think these are the last of pictures. In short it was awesome. Can't wait to go back.

Our campsite at Seward

These are really rare

Boat ride. Dont let the picture deceive you Timber HATED the boat ride

Puffin

Ptarmigan

Owl

Sea Otter

Mama and baby

Marmot

Beef Jerky stand on the side of the road

Iditarod Mile Zero Homer, Alaska (Where we are moving to)

Grizzly

This place was so awesome. The only way you can get there is by plane or boat. So its a bit more scary when you hear something in the woods. This lake is fed by the glacier behind it. You could hear big chunks falling into the lake and David even got a picture of one splashing into it. Mama and baby
Another glacier but you couldn't touch this one because it was "highly unstable" whatever that means

The best part of Alaska is that pretty much everything is do at your own risk. They will have a sign that says "Glacier is unstable, proceed at own risk"...awesome. So naturally we ignored the sign and we hiked up to the glacier and stood on. Which was great until we heard it crack and rocks started falling from the cliffs above, and which point we decided we might need to start heading down.

Fox

We killed easily a million bugs but this is one of our favorites

Another wild and vicious animal

SO COOL! We saw 2 baby bears right on the side of the road and by the time we stopped and turned around to get a picture they caught up with there mom on the other side.

We are so skilled we can be in two countries at once