Cellphone video

I was going to try and post some of Kara's videos from my phone for you, but I've fiddled with it and can't seem to get it to work for me, so I doubt it would work for you either :(

New hairdo

I decided I had finally had enough wrestling around to get the tangles out of Kara's hair every day. She didn't like to have ANYTHING done to it. This weekend I did something about it. Here are before and after pictures from Kara's biggest haircut yet.

Before from the back:
Before from the front:

Shelli doing the duty! Thank goodness she is so patient and has so much experience with little ones!

After from behind:


After from the front. Kara really enjoyed playing at Shelli's after the "beauty shop" was done. She ran and played with all the dogs. And the best part of that was it gave her hair a chance to fall where it normally would so we could get her bangs just right!

A toddler's worldview

Santa brought Kara her very own camera for Christmas. I finally took the time the other day to upload the 100+ pictures she had taken with it. I was very interested in what I found. I just find it neat to see the world from her perspective. She did take a lot of Christmas morning pics that had half faces, up the nose shots, and butts (dog, Cousin Kenny, Cousin Landen). These were some of the most interesting to me.

Here is a self portrait. The set up of the camera makes it very easy for her to turn it around and take pics of herself because the button is on the front rather than the top of the camera.





This is her Diego train that she was so happy to get. I wasn't surprised to see several pictures of it pop up when the pictures came up on the computer.




She had her camera in the bank one day, all the pics from that are angled upward. I guess that is where all the important stuff is when you are her height.

Christmas breakfast. While she didn't eat much of it, she obviously found it exciting enough to photograph.

A close up of Grandma Jo's Christmas sweatshirt.

Our Angel Girl

Once again my pictures came up in reverse order! Anyway, Kara was an angel at church for this year's Christmas cantata. I hear she was quite entertaining, but I was backstage helping out and so I missed the most entertaining parts!

For Christmas this year, she had a pretty specific list, she wanted a Puppy with goggles that swims, and a "niego" (Diego) toy. Unfortunately, Santa delivered both these gifts to Grandma and Papa's, so every gift she opened at home she asked before opening "this my niego toy?" She did seem to enjoy her Kid Tough camera though, and I will have to upload pics from it soon since she has been taking so many. Most of them appear to be half faces and dog bottoms, but she certainly had a good time!

At any rate, we had a wonderful Christmas, and hope everyone else did as well!

December Checkin

I realized this morning it has been a long time since I've written anything here. Since my last post, we have been a pretty busy family! Blaine and I went with Les and Sabrina and some others to watch the Cheifs play the Bucs. It was a very exciting game, even if my poor Chiefs lost. Blaine was a happy camper though! Then the week after that, Shelli, Tammy, Michelle and I went to the New Kids on the Block concert in KC. Shelli and I didn't get home until after 4 in the morning but we had SUCH AN AWESOME TIME!!!

Also since I last posted, Blaine's Granny fell and broke her shoulder. She is currently doing therapy/recovery at the nursing home. I miss having her at home!

So Christmas is coming. I've pretty much finished my shopping, just need to get a few things found to give Blaine, since he has already purchased his own "big" gift (or so he says). Kara and I got the tree up, after a minor disaster involving the base. The base broke just as I finished putting the dratted thing together and had the lights on it! Thank goodness Mom bought multiple trees when she bought this one, I was able to just pop it out of the broken one and into the one from the spare. So Kara posed for a few pics lately:
Here she is playing a horn tree ornament. She really got into the decorating this year, so most of the ornaments are on the lower branches.

Since she is being the "forman" at the farm with Granny being gone, her daddy bought her some coverall options to keep her warm in the truck. Every morning Daddy asks what they are going to do that day, and Kara says "feed cows" I think the cows are WAY better fed right now than they've ever been!

And finally, Grandma Laurie found Kara the perfect shirt. Grandma is always saying that Kara is proof that the mother's curse works, and now I can dress her to advertise that fact. Mom also found Landen one just like it, so I will have to get a few of the two of them together!

Happy Halloween!

Trick Or Treat! Kara was a bee this Halloween. And she has perfected the saying of Trick or Treat, except when she was too shy to say it! We had a party afterwards at Grandma/Papa's, and had a wonderful time!

Kara the Bee and Landen the Lion

Kara Landen and Grandma

Bee costume with the wings

Kara before last weekend's community Halloween party, she got over her sickies just in time to go and enjoy it!

Kara Bee

Pumpkin Painter

As a project for church this year, Kara got to paint pumpkins to send to church members who are now in the nursing home. She had so much fun doing that, that we had to paint our pumpkins instead of carving them this year. In fact, she enjoyed the painting part so much that she even decided we needed to paint a couple of the watermelons that Uncle Josh gave her! So here are the 'fruits' of her labor!

Pair of painted watermelons

The painted pumpkin family. She did have a little help from Mom and Dad

Kara and Daddy painting. Notice Kara has a painted tummy, which she actually DID NOT do to herself. Her Daddy did it and she was MAD at him!

Kara painting a pumpkin for the nursing home folks