Long time no blog...

Alright…so the wife and I are horrible about keeping this updated. Early new years resolution…regular blog updates. ESPECIALLY since we have so much to update ya’all on. I am going to try and keep them somewhat chronological.

A) First, and definitely biggest news we have…WE ARE PREGNANT! I contemplated changing the blog name from “Tyler and Ali are finally hitched” to “Tyler and Ali are expecting” and seeing how many people would’ve noticed. It’s awesome news. Here is a picture of the little Pau.

Let me try and answer some of the FAQs that we have gotten thus far...

1) Nope. We were not trying but feel extremely blessed.
2) We are due in May. Crazy time of closing a building, ending my contract, and bringing a little Pau into the world.
3) We don’t know gender yet. We are still debating (read: discussing) if we will find out in a few weeks.

I am sure we will have more updates in the near future. We are just over 18.5 weeks. Ali’s morning sickness (that actually came at night) is pretty much gone. Since we don’t know the babys gender, we have been calling him/her “Kiki” instead of saying “it.” It was a trip to hear the babys heartbeat at every doctors appointment. Keep us in you thoughts and prayers. We are excited and scared out of our minds at the same time.

B) Bonnie and Dale (Ali’s parents) came out to visit us. It was a great time with them. Bonnie cooked us an amazing dinner one night and we sat around for hours (chatting about life, Dale’s new iPhone application called “LifeTrack”, sharing about Ali and my new married life, and then taking all the advice we could about parenting) and laughed a lot. We were so happy to have some family come visit us out here. Thanks Bonnie and Dale! Also, Bonnie got a tattoo while she was here. Buck hooked her up with a cool Picasso dove. Maybe Dale is next???

C) Ali and I went over to see my brother and his family in Federal Way for Thanksgiving. SO awesome on a couple levels. Level 1…it was so good to be with my brothers family. Level 2…my nephew Chance was there! I hadn’t seen him since my brothers wedding, two years ago. Level 3…food was amazing. Felicity even made baked beans with my moms recipe. She did awesome. Level 4…We found a Thursday paper laying in the road that had all the Black Friday advertisements in it. Score. Level 5…my brother now has a Wii and a Playstation 3. It was a good time for Ali and I to get away and we had a good time on our drives to and from the westside. Mathyus was tired enough to let us put this on him in Target.

D) Ali and I are packing to fly out to Hawaii for Christmas. YES! Spokane is looking like this…

We could use the warmth. It will be good to go visit some of the places from the wedding. Haleiwa Joes. Dukes. Ali even wants to do Diamond Head. We might even eat the top cake from the wedding. Lemon lilikoi? Mmmm. We will make sure to take a lot of pictures to post on the blog.

That’s about it for now. Apologies for the long delay. Keep checking in, we aim to get better. Enjoy the holidays and time with folks you love.

Seasons Greetings,
Tyler