Accident

Wow... so we were in a car accident yesterday! We're all fine but it was a little scary and totally (obviously) unexpected. My mom, grandma, aunt, Jaydan and I were at Costco and driving back to my mom's house. We were on 85th at the 132nd intersection at a red light when I heard the screeching... I started to turn to look out the back window and then all the sudden the car jolted. Lovely. So a Subaru rear-ended a Mitsubishi that rear-ended a Toyota that rear-ended us. We were quite a spectacle as we blocked a main line on 85th. The police came and dealt with us after moving all 4 cars into the nearest parking lot. We sat for awhile as they did all the paperwork and talked to everyone about what happened - thank goodness for a patient baby! Jaydan was so good. Fortunately, my mom's car seems to have gotten away completely unscathed. Unfortunately, my mom ended up with some lower back pain and I have some major neck and shoulder pain. It's perfect for the migraines that I've just started to get under control. Today I have limited range of motion in my neck - it's fantastic. So I suppose that I'm going to have to file a medical claim and get some massage or something. This totally sucks.

Belated Christmas Pics

Our family enjoying Jaydan's first snow
Jaydan: the baby paper shredder

Santa's little helper

Ready to go out and brave the weather

Our little snow baby!

Christmas was very interesting around here... more snow than anyone can remember... icy roads... Jaydan's FIRST Christmas... Huebner's brave drive to Redmond...

Weight Loss... Ick

So I'm starting a weight loss journey... ick. I'm way behind in my quest to lose weight post baby and post thyroid malfunction. I'm ready to leave the outer mack truck behind and seek out my former self. Saturday morning my mom and I are starting a Weight Watchers-esque program through Curves. We'll be meeting weekly, I think, and weighing in and taking responsibility for the calories we intake. Yikes... I've never taken that responsibility before. It's very scary and I'm totally intimidated by this whole dieting thing. It would help if I could find a way to fit in some good excercise time. My excuses are running dry as my parents do have a treadmill... I just have to figure out the best way to balance that piece of equipment with Jaydan. I prefer to work out in the morning so I only take 1 shower but Jaydan is super busy playing in the mornings... I may need to alter my schedule in order to accommodate him rather than trying to make him work around me.

Wow... I'm a mom. ;)

Happy 2009!

Here we are in a new year... already! I can't believe that Jaydan will turn 1 in just a couple months. It's CRAZY how time flies.

So the holiday season was a mess around here - literally a white, wet, icy, transportation nightmare. We were basically snowed in at my parents for a couple weeks. Karly and Carlos made it in just in time. Once they were here, the airports and the roads were too bad to deal with. Christmas was quiet - we weren't able to get out of my parents' neighborhood to get to Dirk's parents as usual so they ventured here. It was nice to be able to see them on Christmas day. We were able to make it to Federal Way for the annual Boxing Day celebration - it's always a good time. We then spent the night at Dirk's parents and then spent the following Saturday at Doug and Amy's for a belated Christmas celebration. All in all, the holiday went well and we were fortunate enough to spend all the time with family.

New Year's came quickly - snow still on the ground - and we spent the evening with the Malmbergs. Jaydan and Ava happily hugged and kissed all night long and were good to play nicely with one another. We're keeping our fingers crossed that we can keep them good friends... it should be for their benefit, but I think it's more for the parents. ;)

Anyway, we're looking forward to the new year. It's time for a fresh start and we're ready to keep moving forward. Happy 2009 and we wish all of our loved ones the very best!!