Christmas Eve 2008
and I'm officially in love with Picasa 3...............

i'm in the process of uploading a bazillion holiday pictures
then i decided to take a break and play with picasa 3 a bit
discovered the collages for the second time................. and realized i could blog my collages!
SCORE!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much easier to post a bunch of pictures!
Yep, in love.......

Christmas Pictures!!!!!!!!!
These pictures are ALL sorts of out of order, but at least I finally got them on here!
Jessie K, Christmas morning after a bath-since she had decided to start off the day by decorating her crib with poop. Good times.
She was a little confused what all the fuss was about

Mommy explaining to her that Santa came, and to see what he left her (she had given him her binky the night before, left it by the fireplace)

running to find out what Santa brought her!

A CAR!!!! she was stoked

Santa filled Jessica's stocking to the max, kinda forgot about everyone elses ;)

had to put her new elmo she got in her stocking, into the car!

dora candy and bandaids! santa knows!

now to take that car for a joy ride......

opening presents- she is starting to understand how to do it

she was loving all the fun presents! the tounge was out most of hte morning (not sure what that means_)

soooooooooo excited about her mermaid dress!

super cool new kicks

and of course, a new baby doll..........

dora earphones

she loved her new jacket from uncle greg and anne! had to put it on right away!

mommy got a new lens for her camera- was playign around with it- and love this picture!

helping cook breakfast! her favorite part is stirring and helping mommy break the eggs

love the cheesy grin

openign more presents that nightshe defiently stole the show that night. she was loving every gift, i wish i had gotten a picture of her expression when she opened up a baby doll from her great grammy- it was priceless! she was so good at telling everyone "thank you" and she loved handing out the presents as much as opening them! (i am well aware that next year probably won't be the same, she'll be all abotu her presents then!)

the only family picture i took over the two days! good thing it turned out pretty good ;)

ok, so i did pretty good at keeping those pics in order. these are the ones that are all over the place

my mom, me and jessica went on a 2 day baking frenzy! i have never baked so much in my life, but it was so fun!!!!!! my mom had even made us matching aprons. of course, jesssica didn't want to wear them until we were done baking, but whatever. we also threw an apron and hat onto daddy for fun ;
checking out xmas lights around the city. we had passed the house to park the car, and jessica started to cry. and i told her "dont' worry, we're going to get out to walk and see santa" and she said "no- RUN" it was too cute. had to get a picture of her and her daddy running to see santa! (of course, she would have nothing to do with im when we actually got there)

this dude is crazy! sooooo many lights on one house. even has a website!!!!

checking out the lights up close

jessica was in awe as we got out of the car

we got all dolled up in our hats and scarfs before hand (it DOES get cold in SD, just not as cold........)

some cute pictures at the park

she loves the "whee" (aka swing) - its her favorite!

cute pic of steve and me- on our way to a holiday party

jessica's new thing is having like 4 or 5 "babies" in her arms at all times. this is me trying to carry her and all those babies

oops, posted the wrong family pic from the preschool holiday party. whoops. still cute though

jessica wasn't so sure about the nutcrackers.....

love this picture of jessica putting the angel on the top of the tree! she could have done it, too, if she understood what she was doing

she was so stoked to be decorating the tree!

so serious

it was cold when we were getting our tree!

not quite as cute as last years, but still fun

decorating our gingerbread house- jessica mostly ate the frosting

and of course- the classic picture with santa! she WOULD NOT smile for the camera, so luckily santa had a book to read her and we got this precious pic! i love love love it!

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas, and happy New Year!!!!!!!

Happy Holidays!

Half way there!

whoa! living on a prayer......

Cannot believe that I'm 2o weeks today! 5 months- half way point! (that darn Bon Jovi song has been stuck in my head all day, and i don't know if i even have the words right........)

I'm HUGE

found out that, apparently, 2nd pregnancy you get all the aches and pains earlier- and STRONGER. whats that about? hows that fair? i actually went to the doctors office because i was having such bad pains. nothing like what i had with jessica. turns out its my ligaments stretching- which i do remember having with jessica, just not so intense. so yeah, found out that its pretty common to be more painful, and to start earlier. not fair- i'm chasing after a toddler! cannot imagine what that woman with the 18 kids is feeling.......

i've gained almost 10 pounds LESS than where i was at with jessica. but i also started 10 pounds lighter. so right now i'm the same weight as i was when i was 20 weeks preggo with jessica.

i've already talked about a lot of the differences of this pregnanyc

Another one that I've been noticing alot- especially since i'm back in prenatal yoga, and the whole pain scare thing.

i'm having that fear of not loving this baby as much as jessica. i know that i do, and that i will love them both the same. but i feel like i'm too focused on jessica to really concentrate on this pregnancy (not that there is really anything i can concentrate on, other than being healthy and taking care of myself), and when i had that pain i felt like i was a horrible mother because of that. does that make sense? i know that all mothers go through it, i've heard it. and i used to think they were ridiculous for thinking it, cause they know it wasn't true. but here i am, an expecting-mama, hoping that there is enough love to go around. i guess i don't feel like i really have the time to be excited, but of couse i still have the worry- and when i do worry i feel like i should be as devoted as i was with jessica! anyways. enough of that rambling

here are two sets of 5 month pictures. let me know which pictures you prefer. the black top were taken this mornign before going to get massages and lunch with my assistants. the white top were taken last night before a holiday party. and yes- i am aware that i'm HUGE. thank you ;) (check out how big i was when i was 20 weeks w/jessica here)