liam carter buhl

its been awhile and i have so much to add and pictures to update but most important news in the last month is that austin and i are officially uncle and aunt to the newest little hansen!! liam carter was born on september 19th and was 21 inches, 8lbs 13oz! we are both so excited for tatum and adam! they are gonna be amazing parents and we cant wait to meet the little guy!!

skydiving!!

in the spirt of adventure, a few of the girls from my bible study decided that we were gonna go skydiving! we got up at 530 am to be the first ones there, and all drove out to the north shore. lacey, her mom, julie, and i all got suited up and hopped in the back of a truck and got in this tiny little plane, which took us up into the sky! surprisingly i wasnt nervous at all! it was the most gorgeous view from the plane and i figured if i was ever gonna sky dive this is probably one of the most gorgeous places to do it. the initial jump was so terrifying and i closed my eyes for half a second and then forced them open and it was so so incredible! my favorite was the free falling was the best part. we are bonded for life girls! i cant wait to go back and bring austin and jump with him, babe you would have loved it!!

my adventure friend.

the other day my friend lacey and i decided to go on a new hike that neither of us had been on before, we've done this before and it has usually worked out ok. this time i there was a few minor problems! the beginning of the trail head was impossible to find...it took us an hour! turns out where we were looking was on private property. we wondered around and found two huge dogs who then proceeded to charge us. lacey took off her bag and tried to hit it while i ran!! haha i came back tho and started yelling at them to go away and eventually they just let us leave. we eventually found the beginning and it ended up being a fun hike. we had to rock climb a bit and just got to get lost in the gorgegous valley for 3 hours. i am going to miss lacey shes been a great friend to me over here, she just found out she is moving to Afghanistan for a year to be contracted as a civilian over there and has a great job opportunity. in the spirit of trying to sqeeze as much adventure in before she leaves we are going sky diving tomorrow!! i am so excited! lacey i will miss you and pray for your safety while you are gone, but lets have fun jumping out of a plane!!

newbe.

so i decided to finally jump on the blog train! so in case i dont already spend enough time on facebook i decided to add one more "social networking" commitment. to catch those of you up who have missed the last few years i will give a quick update...

austin and i got married (high school sweethearts, ya i know disgustingly adorable) last year on july 11 2009 and had the best wedding! it was so much fun and after almost 4 years of dating we were crazy enough to make it official that we would be stuck with each other for the rest of our lives. we are currently living in honolulu (oahu) and enjoying most of the time! austin is in his senior year of school and junior year for football. he is doing so well in football and is the starting right tackle for the warriors, yes last year he was left guard and the year before that center! he works hard at school and football and i assure you i zap all the rest of his energy with my craziness! i am working at pfchangs right down the street and working on becoming a little domestic housewife. i still want to be a special ed teacher, but due to hawaii's schools complications school is on the slow track for now. we've made some great friends out here, but we also cannot wait till we can be home and be with family. we try to make it out to the beach as much as we can and take advantage of the fact that we do live in paradise!!

so im sure you're sick of hearing about me and austin so here are a few pics of our first year of marriage (which was a fun adventure with ups and downs but we loved every minute of it!)...