HelllOOooOOOoO!!

Catching up on Holidays '09-'10!

We went and visited my Uncle Henry and Aunt Connie, it was actually the first time Casey had met them!  Such a wonderful time and so great for them to meet Miley and Kiara!

My mama, my sister, my daughter! (My sister is so beautiful!)

Look at this hottie!

Pop and Aunt Connie...Cullen Fam!!

Off to SD for Kiara's 1st Christmas!!!

Grandma June's- Kiara looks so serious haha!

Grandma Be's- now that's more like it!

Wouldn't be a party w/out "Casey's Closeups"

I can't even believe it!  LOOK at this cutie opening (aka eating) her first gift from SANTA!

Christmas in San Diego=tank tops and t-shirts

Kiara's Sundance battle wound

GQ

Cas and Mel

The folks!

Good ol' fashioned Chargers Christmas!!  Ahhhww..Chargers I hate to love you.

Mich and baby Avery!

Family @ Carlsbad!

For New Years, Colin, Stacey, Eli and Baby Miller (still in mommy's tummy) came to play!  Eli is Kiara's future husband.  It's just a done deal.  He brought her flowers and gave her a kiss.  He is SOOOOO adorable!

Kinda blurry but if you're looking for a good, addictive board game, check out Settlers of Catan.  Haha!  SO fun.

THen back to Grammie and Pop's for a little post-Christmas present time!

Hope you all had a great season, on to 2010!!!!

Casey's THIRTY!!! Kiara's 1/2!!!

Well this has been quite the...ahem...last 6 weeks or so!  I must keep up on my blogging, if Kiara would just take a nap it would really help haha!  Here are a couple pics from Thanksgiving...

Kiara is sitting up just great now!  Every once in a while she will fall and bonk her head but for the most part it is great, she will just sit and play with whatever's around her! (especially if it is not a toy but rather some sort of random item like a funnel or a shoe.)
Casey turned 30!!!  I had a surprise party for him at a local pizzeria and boy was he SURPRISED!!!  I made him a great slideshow and will post it after Christmas (I have to figure out how to cut it in two to get it on youtube or something because it is extremely long hahaha)
We got our Christmas tree which was an adventure as Casey was still on crutches.  He had torn some ligaments in his ankle playing basketball and got his cast off the day before his party!  Kiara was not too happy about getting a Christmas tree but we caught her in a good mood here!

I decided to make our own Christmas cards and took some pictures of this little Santa baby...she was in the best mood when I was snapping photos and they all turned out sooo cute I couldn't decide what to choose!!And here is the finished product!  I think it came out pretty cute...family, act surprised when you get it!!

Kiara turned 6 months and we fed her some peas last night.  She did pretty good, kind of indifferent to the actual pea taste it seemed like, but after about 10 bites she got confused on how to swallow and started gagging.  Even if we held the spoon up close to her she started to gag in anticipation!  We got it on video so I will have to put that along with Casey's surprise party reaction up on the site for all to see, I just have to get him to show me how to hook up the vid camera.  We got her six month shots and she weighs 13 lbs 11 ounces, still at 10% for weight, she's little like her mama!  25" long, 17"head (because you care haha).  She absolutely destroyed the paper on the table at the dr's office.  When we left it looked like hurricane Kiara came through.  I think we know what we are getting her for Christmas...shhh haha!

Announcing... Rah Rah Girls!

It's Here, RAH RAH GIRLS!!!

If you're interested in any name signs, hair bows, bow holders & more for your little ones or for gifts, check out my ETSY site, I'd love to make something for you!

RahRahGirls

If you order, mention my blog in your message at checkout and I'll throw in a surprise hair bow!

I will be updating here at the blog when new things become available!!

Oops....Catching up...

First of all....welcome baby Madelyn Grace Becker!!!!

She was born October 28th at 9:02 pm weighing in at 8 lbs, 3 oz and 19.5" long.

Congrats, Becker Family!!

We headed over to Templeton right away to join in on the action...so nice for Kiara to see Nana and Papa and aunt and uncle and cousins!!

Casey's parents recently celebrated their 40th anniversary with a cruise to Europe.  Congrats!!

What would a trip to SLO be without a little High Street Deli?

Oh yeah I promised you a picture of the legwarmers....

Here are some pics from our trip to the pumpkin patch!  We had sooo much fun parading around with our little girl.  We can't wait until she's running around picking out her own pumpkin!

She's so tiny!

You know me and Casey hit up the super slide before we left...I'm not sure we really are adults yet.

John & Stef Umscheid brought Jaxton over for dinner...he is such a doll!!

Kiara turned 4 months old...we had to hold her in place to keep her from...

doing this.

4 month highlights!

• You are in size 2 diapers
• Still in 3 month clothes
• Becoming quite the little princess.  You have upped the ante on the non-napping.  Ahhh.
• Teething teething teething!
• Rolling all over the place
• Digging those toes in, trying to crawl!
• Getting close to sitting up!
• 13 1/2 lbs, 24" long, 16" head circ!  Growing growing growing!!
• Laughing and smiling more and more
• Showing us more of your personality...you are one SPUNKY kid!
• Still sleeping well at night!
• Still only on momma's milk!

She is SUCH a sweetie and we are so so blessed to have her!

So in other news, last Monday I had a root canal, Tuesday Casey badly sprained his ankle and was in the ER all night and now on crutches, Wednesday Jenny had her baby and we headed over to the coast...so Saturday we were just pooped.  Needless to say, Halloween passed us by this year so we unfortunately did not get Kiara in her butterfly costume.  We will have to wait until next year!!

IN OTHER NEWS....I have an announcement to make!  

I am opening my own ETSY store to sell my name signs, bow holders, hair bows, and all that good stuff.  I will post the link once I'm up and running in the next couple weeks but keep me in mind for your holiday shopping!!!!

Take care!!  I'll be catching up with more soon!

Holla!

Stuff has been going on but I don't have too many new pictures to prove it- I was telling Casey that we need to just leave our camera out so that we always remember to take pics.

On Sunday my mom, my sister and I took a girls trip with Kiara and Miley to San Luis Obispo to do a little shopping, both girls needed some winter clothes so we did our little quarterly trip to the Carter's outlet in Pismo.  Carters is my favorite.  The clothes are so cute and wash so well, and the sizing seems easier to figure out than with other places.  I have so many cute things from my sister in law from her daughter but I didn't have cold-weather clothes for the 3-6 month period and the weather is really starting to cool down!  Well, I spent double what I budgeted so I guess I did pretty well.  Ha!  At least Kiara is looking fab here at home.  My favorite purchase?  Legwarmers.  Goodness gracious.  I'll try to get them on her today and post some pictures but these things are just too precious!  

By the way....if you go to carters.com and sign up for their little club or newsletter or whatever it is, you will get coupons from them constantly.  Most of the time it is for 20% of $50 or more, but sometimes it is even better.  They will also send you coupons from osh kosh and sometimes gymboree.  This is great because whenever I go shopping there, I always have a coupon!  

Thanks girls for your recipe ideas, I'll have to check out tastebook.com Shannon that looked pretty good...my sister in law Michelle uses binders with the plastic sleeves like Leah suggested and that is super practical and neat so I may start there.  The thought that I would have a free day to type up all my recipes makes me laugh but I guess you never know!?  Maybe Kiara will get a wild hair and decide to take a long nap one day??  

I did a little photo shoot with Kiara...I plan to take them into Photoshop and make them all fancy but here is some raw footage for now...and check out the ultimate cuteness of her sleeping on her daddy after a long day in SLO!!

Need some ideas?

My recipes are a jumbled mess.  I have one binder full of scribbled notes, magazine articles, and craziness.  I really want to get it all nicely organized since I do a lot of cooking and am wondering if anyone out there has any good ideas on an organizer/system?  (PS my binder is hilarious.  It used to be this beautiful binder Casey's mom got me but then I accidentally set it on a hot burner so now it has a huge black burner imprint on the front.  I feel that the way my binder looks is very indicative of my cooking skills...it looks the way my brain thinks...all over the place.  Ha!)

I suppose I could make some cute little pages and type up the recipes but that would require being a girl who does not have a 3 month old.

Kiara is doing great, rolled from back to tummy today...goodness gracious I better watch out, she'll be crawling before I know it!!  She's also sucking her thumb....not sure how I feel about it but I have gotten 3 GREAT night's sleep where she hasn't made a peep cuz she just sticks that thumb in there!  She won't take a paci sooo...I guess it's okay for now (how would you make a 3 month old stop anyways? Haha)