Holiday Highlights

Cousins

Cousins

and...Cousins

Bunco Party

Dipping Chocolates

Making Jared take us sledding

These 3

Her

Her

and...her!

This is cute!

Our neice Paige has been at Primary Children's Hospital for several weeks. After digging up an old tape from Jared's mission I decided to make and send one for her to listen to in the hospital. I really wanted to make something special for her so we sang, told a few jokes, I played some piano songs, and this is a video of her and her family listening to Karlie's singing at the beginning and loving it. I was so happy they got to laugh and have some fun in a not so fun place to be right now! Make sure and pause my blog music at the bottom so you can hear the video.

Snowman

Karlie LOVES to sing and one of her favorites is "Once there was a Snowman." So when it actually snowed we just had to help her make him tall, tall, tall! She was so excited to have a snowman and since then she has spent the days looking at him out her window.

Some Cute Pictures from the summer

Whitney at her first Weiny Roast with Great-Grandma

Karlie roasting her first hot dog over the fire

Not quite a baby doll

Asleep in her bumbo

Karlie and Daddy swimming with their popsicles

4th of July, she was SO excited about all the kids up the street
Karlie's new ride

Sometimes they watch Cartoons together

Whitney Turner

Whitney was born Wednesday, March 31st, at 10:34am, she weighed a whopping 6 lbs. 1 oz. and is doing great! Here is a look at her cuteness...In the mean time this is what Karlie has been up to...

We can't get over how BIG Karlie seems now, she grew up over-night

I have this...and it hurts

Hydronephrosis Due to Pregnancy...
Problems with the kidneys and ureters--tubes that lead from the kidneys to the bladder--can sometimes lead to Hydronephrosis. Hydronephrosis is a blockage in the kidney that causes the flow of urine to the bladder to be obstructed (also causing kidney stones and urinary tract infections.) Pregnant women have a higher chance of this difficulty as their uterus ENLARGES. Treatments do exist for Hydronephrosis in pregnancy, however, most cases are mild and go away AFTER GIVING BIRTH.

...I hope I can make it til the 31st, wish me luck!

DisneyWorld

...and last but not least we celebrated the new year by heading to DisneyWorld with Jared's family. It was a blast...an arctic blast that is, and was quite cold. We still had tons of fun all bundled up, and there was even one day that Karlie got to wear all of her clothes that we had packed all layered at once, including her fleece PJ's. These are in totally random order...
Breakfast at the hotel, Karlie was so excited to talk to every stranger that she barely would eat

MGM Studios - Karlie couldn't stop staring at Miss PiggyAsia at Animal Kingdom, checking out the monkeys

Don't really know what to say about this..."It's tough to be a bug"

Epcot Center

Pirate Dinner Show - we had the whole back table

Honey, I shrunk the kids playground

Our Pirate - Dressed in ISU colors (we were assigned the Orange section)

"Up" Characters...love how Karlie is staring at Russell, the boy scout. Probably thinking, "Where do I know you from?"

Christmas

We were sooooooo busy during Christmas with so many parties. We had lots of fun visiting with everyone and had a couple of different parties with old friends from high school that we hadn't seen for years, so that was fun. Karlie was fun on Christmas morning and loved and played with EVERYTHING she opened for quite a while. Her favorites have been her rocking horse that Grandpa Turner made and her new doll with all the accessories from G'ma and Popee Bergeson.
I guess I don't have a picture of Karlie with her doll yet, so here is one of me instead wearing my Christmas pajamas and sporting my new apron...at the same time!

Family Pictures

Here is an update or 2 on what we've been up to lately. Christmas and the New Year have found us very busy and I'll try to make these posts short. We had some family pictures taken for a fun Christmas present and they turned out great! Here are a few...

Jilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

I guess since it's almost Christmas now, I better get this thing updated. Too much to post and no time, but here is a great picture of the chocolates we dipped this year. It made me tired...but mostly because we had to party party party for several days straight!!!! Oh, and shop the Black Friday sales, it was actually pretty fun, despite what I've heard about the stores, people, and lines.

Trick-Or-Treat

So, Karlie now has like 3 Halloween costumes, and luckily there have been enough parties for her to wear all of them. She keeps finding this bunny one and wanting to wear it but she will not leave the ears on at all, luckily I got to snap this quick picture as she was reaching up to take them off. We can't wait to carve pumpkins and trick-or-treat with daddy this weekend, there have been several days lately that they haven't even seen each other all day because he'll go to work before she gets up and gets home after she's gone to bed. Our conversations go something like this throughout the day,
Karlie: "Dad...Dad...Dad...daddy, daddy"
Me: "Daddy is at work"
Karlie: "Dad...Dad...Dad...daddy, daddy"
We still have a lot of fun together though but we both miss him during his looooooooong shifts!

Walking around

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I Love Halloween!

I don't know if it's just the fall season in swing or just all of the fun of the Halloween Holiday, but I love it! This is the only time I miss going to work because we always have had such fun coordinating Halloween costumes, (Hunter : Deer, Pirate : Parakeet etc. etc.) and for me, it always centered around "How can I wear my pajamas to work with this Halloween costume?" So I am excited that I had a baby so close to the holiday and can't wait for all the Orange and Black Birthday parties Karlie will be having in years to come...okay...okay...I'm sure we'll have to have an all out princess one eventually but until then it's ghosts and goblins. With that you will not be surprised that I have already tried Karlie's pumpkin costume on her and it's hilarious because she can't walk or crawl in it, but acts so tickled and special to be wearing it. She also wore this last year when she was just 10 days old, and everyone kept saying what a cute little guy we have. Here is a before and after picture and just for the fun of it, some proof that I really do LOVE Halloween!!!

Before

After

2004-Hey Mr. Postman

2005-Pizza Anyone?

2006-I'm the bird and I made this from Scratch

2007-I handed out little bags of whoppers and told all the kids I found them under my tail

2008 - Our little Kitty Cat