Carter's Blessing Day

Carter was finally blessed. We decided to do it in our home because Jeanna and Jason would be in town. It was so nice to be surrounded by family and friends. Carter did great. However, his pacifier did fall out onto the floor during the blessing. Luckily, our home teacher reached down, picked it up, and put it back in before Carter could complain too much.

Where is Thumbkin?

Carter found his thumb. He was sucking on it like it was a bottle.

Reliving my childhood through Katelyn

Every summer as a child my cousin and I would wander around the backyard in search for these bug skins (I think they are locust???) on the trees and fences. We would collect them in our red wagon and then talk about putting water in the wagon to make them come back alive. Of course we were too scared to try it out. So you can image my excitement when I found these on the trees. I have now got Katelyn excited about going on a bug hunt. We checked out the backyard but only found a few. I guess we will have to try back next week. Kirk was pretty surprised I touched them.

Camera shy

At 7 weeks Carter started to smile. I have been trying to capture his sweet smiles ever since with no success. He smiles for me tons and is such a happy baby but every time I get out the camera he gives me blank stares. Even though this isn't quite a smile he is still pretty cute.

At his 2 month appointment he weighed 11-8 oz. He is between the 20-30th percentile for his weight, height, and head. Our doctor's office has 2 scales side by side and a little girl was being weighed on the other scale while I put Carter on his scale (with his diaper off of course). You guess it, he peed and barely missed the girl's head. I laughed and quickly put the diaper back on!

Preschool, here I come

After waiting all summer long Kaleb's first day of preschool has arrived. He couldn't be happier. He got a cool backpack with secret pockets and the coolest light up shoes ever. He got a stamp on his hand at the end of preschool and wouldn't let Max (our dog) come near him in fear that he would lick it off.

Kaleb has been waiting all summer to get these shoes. Katelyn got pink light up shoes a few months ago and he has been in love with them ever since. He would wear them any chance he got. One night I got Kaleb up for our nightly bathroom trek and when I pulled back the covers I discovered he was wearing her shoes in bed. The day he got these he had a hard time watching where he was going because he was always watching his shoes. Simple pleasures!!!

Deathly ill

When Carter was just a few weeks old I got the worst breast infection known to woman. My doctor first treated it with a common antibiotic but when that didn't work the drama started. Apparently it was MRSA (Carter got it from the hospital, probably from a nurse that didn’t wash her hands, and he gave it to me). I took really strong oral antibiotics for a few days it continued to get worse. Six weeks later, after many trips 2x’s a day for IV antibiotics, doctor visits 2-3 times a week (the whole office staff knows me by name) , lots of formula and pumping, and getting to know the pharmacist personally I was finally able to get rid of the darn thing. My OB has been a Doc for over 30 years and she said I won the award for the worst breast infection ever with no competition!!! I would rather not get that award again.

P.S.Thanks so much Kirk for being so helpful, never complaining, and the most wonderful Mr. Mom!!! (He loved that movie growing up)
P.P.S. Thanks mom for all the babysitting, dinners, and cleaning. My house stayed clean during the disaster.

1st Grade

Katelyn's first day of school. I was kinda sad for her to go to school all day, but as I watched her walk into her class I remembered all my good memories of school and decided she would be okay! She had a great day and her only complaint was that she didn't have enough time to eat all her lunch. So when she came home at 3:00 we finished it together.

Bear Lake fun

We went to Minnetonka Cave and froze. It was 40 degrees in the cave and we were in there for about
1 1/2 hrs. Thankfully, Jeanne babysat Carter outside the cave so he didn't have to experience his first winter like weather.
It was a ton of stairs and walking. I decided it might be time to start exercising again.

What better exercise than pedaling a bike with 5 people on it.

Poor Grandpa

We convinced Grandpa to take the kids fishing. He was a little less than thrilled but was a good sport even though he swore they wouldn't catch anything. Well what do ya know, after Grandpa had his line in the water for less than 5 minutes he caught a fish. The kids were thrilled. It was the only catch for the day, other than the thousands of mosquitos catching us.



































Jacob helped Katelyn and Kaleb learn how to catch grasshoppers that they could take on their adventure. I think Katelyn felt a little sad when she realized you poke a hook through the grasshopers.


















Katelyn & Kaleb's first fishing adventure.
What great memories. Thanks Grandpa!!!

Beach Bums

Kaleb and Kirk probably had the most fun with the jet skis. Kaleb had been looking at pictures of jet skis on the internet before we even got to Bear Lake and was so excited to actually ride one. Kaleb loved having dad go fast and spin around. Katelyn on the other hand was very nervous and did not want to go, but I convinced her that Mom doesn't go fast.

Katelyn enjoyed playing on the beach and making sand castles. She was very sandy from the days work so Kirk asked her to go rinse off in the water while he took down the canopy and packed up to go home. We were both making trips back and forth to the car when Kirk asked if Katelyn was in the car with me. She wasn't with me or with Kirk so we ran down to the beach. We walked up and down the beach, Kirk waded in the water, and some people even helped us search for her. The last place we had seen her was in the water so I was in tears and couldn't believe this was happening. After about 15 minutes, many prayers on my part, Kirk, and even Katelyn we found here way down the beach. She had rinsed off and come out of the water but couldn't find our canopy so she was wondering down the beach. We were sooooo grateful it had a happy ending, said a prayer, and tried to not think about it again for fear mom would start crying again.