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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