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

Walking Around . . . kinda

Karlies birthday is coming up on October 15th. We can't believe she will be a year old! I told her she can only have a party if she is walking by the time the day arrives so she has been busily practicing her steps. She really wants to have all her friends over for a party!