Surprise!

Since we weren't able to go to Regina for Christmas, Logan and I had secretly planned to go to Regina and surprise everyone in February. We decided to go over the long weekend to make sure that everyone had one day off that we could all be together. We went for the week of February 15-22. 

We ended up telling Kaden and Amy because we didn't want to show up the week that everyone was so busy that we wouldn't be able to spend time with them, so Kaden kind of asked around and made sure that it was a fairly open week before we came. Amy ended up telling Liana because the sunday we surprised everyone was Shooter's baby shower and Amy mentioned changing the date, so Liana asked why. Amy told her and Liana suggested to keep the same date so as not to raise suspicion. 

It worked out perfectly. We arrived in Regina around 4:30 pm, and it was right after the baby shower so people were just starting to filter out, but all the women were still at Janessa's and all the men were still at Davis and Dani's right beside them, so we decided to surprise the guys first and then pop over to see the women because we knew we'd be at the shower visiting for awhile. 

Davis' reaction was I think my favorite, because we walked into their house, he looked at Logan and said "Hey Logan!...wait WHAT!?" He said hi at first like he was totally expecting us but then all of a sudden realized what was going on. Dad jumped off the stairs and just stood there dumb-founded for a bit before he came over and hugged us! Everyone else was just excited!

Then we went over to Janessa's and the first one we saw was Liana and Dani in the kitchen. Liana knew we were coming so she wasn't surprised, but Dani was and she came right over to hug us! then we went just around the corner and mom saw me and did a double take and then almost jumped out of her chair and came and hugged us! It was so great to surprise everyone and we had such a blast! 

I didn't get too many pictures because I was too busy enjoying the time! Also we all ended up getting terrible colds so we were kind of just lazing around, drinking tea and being sick together :) it was still a lovely time! 

Andi and Mackenzie having a "bubble bath" with water beads.

Andi and Aunty Janessa! The dogs just scared Andi through the window so Aunty Janessa was comforting her!

 Cute little Arthur crawling around the halls! 

We stayed for a week and while we were there played lots of games and music. We also of course made the trip to Moose Jaw to enjoy Deja Vu, the greatest little chicken wings/strips restaurant. We took the kids swimming on a day that Davis was off so he could come so that was really nice! We also had my friend Renessa and her son Bentley come on the trip as they knew mom and dad really well when they still lived in Grande Prairie.

It was such a great trip. The time always flies by so fast but we are hoping to go at Christmas this year! 

Update Post (lots o pics!)

I am finally getting around to doing an update post! It's been a busy few months and also a sick few months so we are finally on the mend and looking forward to spring. Winter has been far too long!

Adrienne is 8 months old now and very busy! She started crawling about a month and a half ago and is just motoring all over the place now! It has been busy but nice for me as she can now entertain herself and I am able to clean more efficiently because she can follow me from room to room if she wants to rather than me having to move her every time I move to a new area. 

 She has been so busy crawling around that she hasn't gained a whole lot of weight so she is around 20 pounds right now. She is a goofball and loves to play rough. She is constantly smiling and laughs quite frequently. I think she may end up being a bit of a drama queen because she can go from smiling to mad in just a few seconds.

 She loves to eat paper. Any kind of paper. At Christmas time she was all about the wrapping paper. Now that she can crawl, she's all about bathroom garbage can paper *yuck.* Needless to say, that door stays closed now :)

She recently learned how to kiss us, so she has been generous and plants big slobbery open mouthed kisses on Logan and I. It is very sweet, but she's also been sick, so that big slobbery kiss also becomes boogery which is less sweet.

 She has started to wave sporadically, can clap her hands and says "mama." She loves tags and will sit for quite some time and just play with the tag on a stuffed animal.

 She also loves keys, and will get mad at me when I take the car keys away from her. Of course play keys will not do because they aren't the real thing.

 She absolutely adores people and especially other kids. Everytime we go out she watches all the other kids and will laugh at them and smile, even if they are crying or whining. She just thinks other kids are especially funny!

 Her heart murmur has closed up which is an answer to prayer! Here she is at 6 months old getting an ultrasound done to check on it. She did very well in spite of it being nap time!

 She loves to be outside and go for walks which has been a bit of a challenge with the cold. We are very much looking forward to summer so we can go to the park and she can play and run around! We also have a splash park at our city park so we can play in the water and the playground! This summer is going to be fun :)

 This christmas we had hoped to go to Regina, but with Logan's job it did not work out to get that much time off so we ended up spending christmas with my family in Edmonton. It was very nice and was the first Christmas we spent with family since before we were married!

Andi received a snow sled from my friends mom for christmas so she loved going for ride in that on Christmas day!

 She loved spending time with her cousins the most I think. Her cousin Tyler especially loved spending time with her and he would push her around in a walker and she would squeal and laugh and was sad when he stopped! I'm pretty sure he pushed her around in the walker for an hour or more!

 Cousin Love! 

 My mom made Andi and Hailey matching dresses. We tried to get a nice picture of the two of them but they always seemed to be on opposite schedules. This was the only one we got where Hailey wasn't crying!

 I used to sleep like this when I was her age apparently! 

 Special Andi Lego :)

 One activity we decided to do was "finger paint." I made edible finger paints out of baby cereal and food coloring and then let her play with it in the tub! She loved it for a bit, but I think the cereal got a little cold and so she started to get mad after about 15 minutes, but it sure was cute!

 She had her first encounter with puppies this winter! Brent and Chantelle's dogs had a litter of puppies so we had to go out and see them! she wasn't too interested in them for the most part, but she was a little curious about them!

She is such an incredible joy and delight our little Andi girl! 

Adrienne - 4-5 months old!

As always Adrienne has been growing like crazy! She is now just over 5 months old and is about 18 pounds. She is constantly smiling and {her new thing} squealing! She looooves her voice. She can be quite loud when she's having fun, but it never fails to make us laugh.

4 month old picture

 Cozy on a cold day! I love me those cheeks!!

 She has started to play around with noises and her voice. The picture below is her making fart noises. A lot of times she'll be in her crib in the mornings and I know she's awake because I'll hear a "thhpptbbttthhh" through the baby monitor :)

 Logan playing her the song he wrote her when we were away for a week. It was a tough week on daddy!

 Loving her bedtime stories. She loves to try to eat her bible pages.

 Big girl sitting up! 

 Jess adores Andi, so they play together a lot! :)

 looking like daddy in her jumperoo!

 My big 5 month old!

As you can see from the pictures she is such a joyful little girl. She only complains when she's hungry or tired, or of course when she gets scared. Every morning when she wakes up she'll come hang out in mom and dad's bed and we'll visit and she'll play with us before Logan goes to work. She really loves that I think, because we didn't do that this morning before church and she was whining in her bed because she was lonely! 

She is VERY much a people person. She loves all people! She's only played strange a few times and it seems to be men with facial hair that she's not sure about. Other than that she hasn't really had much issues with playing strange. 

Generally the consensus is she still looks mostly like me (Kari) but I still see Logan in her for sure, especially that one picture of her in her jumperoo.

We love our Andi girl! She is such a joy and a delight and I'm so proud to be her mother. 

Winter is coming..

It's that time of year again. We are bracing ourselves for winter as it begins to really cool off. We've had a few freezes already and my plants out front are dying, so it's a sure sign that snow is soon to follow.
We've been pretty busy the last couple of months. Things are starting to slow down for me, but starting to pick up for Logan, so it'll still be a busy little bit for our family! Logan is enjoying his job at Toyota and doing a wonderful job there. They really like him! He even convinced his best friend to apply for a job there and now they are working together again. They had previously worked with each other at Peace Windows where they met, so it's fun for them to be able to "relive" old times!
Adrienne is growing like a weed! I had her weighed earlier this week and she is 14 pounds and 5 oz. They didn't take her lenght measurement as it was just a drop in weigh in, so i'm not sure how long she is, but she is getting so big. It's bittersweet.

She continues to be such a ray of sunshine! She is an incredibly happy girl and you don't have to work hard to get a smile out of her! To get her to laugh on the other hand you have to work fairly hard. She seems to get the giggles before bedtime so we like to play with her then and then have our story time to calm her down again :)

So far she still looks majority like me although "I" am seeing more and more of Logan. He doesn't believe me, so we'll leave it at that :) She has her chubbiness from him though as I wasn't really ever a chubby baby.

 We had her dedicated on September 7th along with the other 5 babies that were born so far this year

 My mom always puts her pants on her head when she changed her diapers :)

Her favorite toy is her Jumperoo. Every day i put her in there and she just goes to town jumping away! She has a little elf dance that she does from foot to foot when she's in it. It's pretty adorable :)

We are getting excited for the holidays! We are still not sure what we are going to do as this is Logan's first year at Toyota and we aren't sure how the holidays work around that time. We may go to Regina which would be great! If we aren't able to get much time off we will most likely stay here or go to Edmonton, so either way we're hoping to see family! It would be our first christmas with family that we've ever had since we've been married, so it would be lovely! 

I hope this post finds you all well! Until next time!