The Birth Day!!

It is so hard to believe that a year has gone by since the birth of our baby!

She went from this

(4 lbs. 9 Oz. 18" long)
to

(17 lbs. 29" long)
This!!

I have had a strict rule this past year which is the Baby cannot have any sugar such as sweets, deserts, etc. until one year. I think we have done pretty good except once when she was given a cookie by her friend Abbi and took a bite before we noticed and another when she was chewing on a kit kat and broke through the package and got a small bite. So since Jared was gone for this special day he demanded that I not give Kai any sugar such as Birthday Cake until he gets home. I decided that a girl can't have a first birthday without some sort of cake so pancakes is what she got!

I think she was a fan of her special Birthday treat!

Time for presents:


Kai checking out her present from Mom and Dad
(Sweet Deal off Craigslist $5, you gotta love craigslist)

Getting ready to open presents from the Grandparents!


Checking out her Birthday card from Grandma and Grandpa Theler,
making sure it tastes good!

Showing off new doll from Papa and Grammy Gardner
Thanks for the gifts Grandparents!!

Although it seems like she had a Happy Birthday it was really a tough day for her! She had her 1 year appointment and the poor thing got 5 immunizations and then had to get her blood drawn. She cried harder then she ever has and then was pretty clingy the rest of the day! She is of course small on the charts only 3rd % for her weight, 10 % for her head and a whopping 60% for her height! But don't feel too bad for her, she will be getting 2 Birthday parties. One in Utah with all the family and one with her buddy Brinley to follow the Hawaiian tradition of having a big first birthday! She will be getting lots of cake and it is definitely well deserved!

We have enjoyed this past year with our sweet baby! I don't think Jared or I have ever experienced so much Joy!
Happy Happy Birthday Kai Kai!! We love you!!

A Birthday letter to Kailie from her Daddy!

Dear Kai,

So, you are now officially 1 year old! It's been a long time coming, but think of all the things you've learned to do:

Drool
Suck on things (some attached to mom....and some not)
Eat Puffs
Smile (with and without teeth)
Snuggle (rarely)
Take Naps
Poop, pee (sometimes on dad and mom)
Laugh
Cry
Bath
Crawl
Walk!!!!
Sit up, Stand
Crawl off the beanbag
Crawl on the beanbag
Eat Sand
Eat Peas, pears, carrots, applesauce etc
Impersonate Klingons and Mr Burns


You seem to do new things all the time. I really wish I could have been there for your first b-day, but dad had to be in a tiny pacific island fixing peoples ears and helping them to hear. They are really poor and we can do a lot of good things. I promise I'll be there for your next one and get home as soon as I can. Tell your mom I really miss her and wish I could be with you both!

Love,
Dad

We've got a Walker!

Kailie has this rule that she lives by which is she has to wait until Jared is gone away to do anything new like crawling and walking! The little stinker took her first steps today and of course Jared is in Palau so he missed it. She officially took her first steps during young women's today. I was just sitting there silently watching my baby girl take one step and then stop and then another step and then stop and then two more steps and I just wanting to yell out, Kailie just took her first steps but of course I couldn't do that right in the middle of the lesson so I just sat there quietly freaking out inside! Jared and I both knew that she would start walking while he was gone so it wasn't a huge surprise but man the girl just has the worst timing!
This video is mainly for Jared so he can see. I took it as soon as we got home from church so it is her second time walking and I must add that she is way faster this time, the first time she was so slow.
So here you go Babe, your baby girl will be walking all around the next time you see her!




This second video is a better shot of her whole body! Enjoy babe, we wish you were here with us! We love you!

The Witch has landed and gone!

I love Halloween and the fall time! Out here in the islands we don't really get a fall so I try to make our home all Halloweeney! This year it seem to come and go so fast, we didn't even get to carve pumpkins or anything but we did have a fun Halloween party!

It seems the theme this year was family costumes.

A Witch, her Broom Stick and Black Cat and Cowboy and Cowgirls!

The Rock stars! Check out the baby's Spikes! Swat man was definitely the most real costume of the night!

Then there was the Shark, Turtle and bitten Surfboard!

I love dressing up so much, see here for some past costumes but this year I was so excited to have Kai and Jared dress up with me!

The shark and the turtle are best buds although the turtle is so cute sometimes the shark nibbles at her!

I had fun making Jared's Surfboard. I am not very artistic but I love to make things like this! A surfboard is not complete with out the fins. This costume was definitely not wearable for long periods of time since you can't sit and the top blows off in the wind and is too tall for most indoors but it was still funny and so fitting for Jared!
The babies had fun eating all the candy while the big kids went trick or treating! I am sure most of our trick or treaters got drooled, bitten into candy since the babies played with it all night!

Dinner came after! It would not be complete without finger cookies and Pumpkin Casserole! Delicious!

It was such a great Halloween! We love all of our friends out here they are family to us! It was nice to spend the evening together and enjoy this great holiday together!



By the way here are the eight funny things about the moped post!
1-crutches
2-broken foot, in a cast(who goes on a moped with cast on there foot)
3-Who drives a moped with a broken foot
4-at a drive-thru- they are at drive-thru ordering food, who thinks lets take the moped with my broken foot, you hold the crutches and then we will order some food!
5- They ordered drinks?
6- and food
7-can't hold on how does the passenger hold on when she has crutches in each hand and food and drinks?
8-crutches again because seriously think about how dangerous it is to have crutches on a moped. What if the wind catches and they go out and hit something and take you with it. What if they hit the ground, etc.

Anyways, we thought it was pretty funny and silly!

3rd anniversary

Jared and I celebrated our third wedding anniversary while we were in San Diego! That morning, Kai stayed with the grandparents and Jared and I got to go to the temple. I have always wanted to go to the San Diego Temple and it was wonderful and so beautiful inside! After the session they asked us to do sealings for a few minutes. We were somewhat in a hurry to go to Sea World but we couldn't pass up the chance so we stayed and it was so fun to be doing the same exact thing we did three years ago. It of course took longer than they said but at the end the sealer said something that really struck me. He was talking about the Abrahamic promise and that it is posterity but then he said why did the Lord command Abraham to sacrifice Issac if his promise was posterity and then he said because Abraham needed to learn something about Abraham! That really hit me. We all have to go through our own challenges and sometimes they seem to be the exact opposite of what we think should have happened or what the Lord would want to happen. But they happen so that we can learn something that we need to learn!

All in all, it was a great anniversary and it has been a wonderful three years! I love being married to Jared and love that we now have a little family! It is so fun!

Because sometimes we just need to smile!

The other night we were in a drive-thru line and these guys were in front of us! How many things can you guess are wrong with this! We came up with at least 8! Stay tuned for that list, but here is a hint to help you! They ordered drinks and food!

11 month

My baby is almost not a baby anymore! She had her 11 month birthday on Oct 16th! I just am so sad to see her grow so fast! On the 17th my cousin Stephanie was killed in a car accident and it just makes me realize how precious life is and that I need to enjoy Kailie, Jared and everyone else in my life while I can because we never know when we might be gone!

(Hiking Kae'na Point at sunset)
We have been trying to enjoy this beautiful island while we are still here. There is just so much to do and see and not enough time to do it in. Here we are hiking Kae'na point, a nice hike right along the ocean! Of course, we did it at sunset which meant we were walking back on a holey trail in the dark. Thankfully our friends girl had a reading light in her pack so at least we could see a little bit!Kailie has discovered some fun new things this month! She loves to climb over things although sometimes we just think she doesn't realize that she can go around so she just goes over or under everything and then usually gets stuck and then cries until we help her!
We all went to the water park, Kailie of course had fun just playing in the kiddie pool. Her and Brinley have matching swimsuits!
Coming home from our San Diego trip Kai got super sick and a had a high fever. I loved it just because she was so cuddley and just wanted to be held all the time! A few days later this rash appeared so we figured she had Roselo which makes sense because we couldn't figure out why she had a fever but nothing else!
We gave her some Cauliflower soup and she LOVED it. We couldn't shovel it in fast enough for her and as soon as the spoon got to her mouth she would put her hand up in her mouth for some reason we still don't know but she sure loved it and made a mess as well.

One day she just discovered her tongue! She was playing with it and trying to stick it out, unfortunately the child is tongue-tied so it doesn't go out to far but she tried and then she drooled everywhere. The funny thing is she hasn't done it since.
Just kicking back in her seat after eating a full meal! I think we all wish we could do that!
Little miss attitude! I love this picture just because I think it is a glimpse of what she will do when she is older. In reality she was just looking away when I snapped the photo so it looks like she is rolling her eyes but she is too sweet to do that already, plus she hasn't quite figured that one out yet
Kai and Brin just playing at the beach. We bring the play pen to contain them because otherwise they just eat all the sand! Yummy! Kailie LOVES those rice rusks!

Some new things that she has learned include: waving and clapping, standing! Climbing! Maam, ddaa, more food, meat, cheese, milk! Roseollo, ,peek a boo, no no no,

San Diego

It has been about 10 years since I have been to San Diego but I have always loved the city! This trip we did a lot of things that I have never done before and I love the city even more now!

The best thing about it was the weather! It was colder than normal which was awesome for us! Oh how I miss wearing Jeans and Sweater and Scarfs and Shoes! One night Jared had a work party and we didn't realize it would be outside needless to say it was super cold but Kailie all-wrapped up enjoyed the appetizers. Here she is eating a taquito , she would not let us take it out of her mouth!I got to see my cousin Gail and her husband Jamie. Gail has lived in San Diego for as long as I can remember! It was so great to see her.

Jared's parents drove all the way from Utah to meet us and we got to do a lot of fun things with them. We went to the air and space museum one of my favorite things was all the Space things they had there so here is Kai showing off her space suit!
This was my favorite plane!! Aren't baby anythings always the cutest?
One day while Jared actually went to his conference, Kai and I walked around the boardwalk in downtown with Jack and Carolyn! It was beautiful and full of fun things to look at! There was a whole walkway dedicated to the military! This was the best memorial (a sailor kissing his nurse upon returning home). It was huge!!
We also got to go to Sea World. Did you know that it is free to Military active duty and their families! (At least for now, they just got bought by somebody so who knows if they will keep doing it) And did you also know that it is super expensive for everyone else! We had no idea it was so expensive $ 60 per adult!

Needless to say we still had fun enjoying the animals , the shows and the rides. Even though it was a bit chilly , Jared and I had to go on the two wet rides! Kailie seemed to have fun and even watched the shows! Of course her favorite thing was all the people. If you can't tell in this picture she is trying to grab the girls hair! (can you tell what animal is in the background? More to come on those)
The whole gang after a wet ride, hence why we are wet!


I was so excited to fly both ways with Jared! This is a first for us since Kailie and it was nice to have the help. Unfortunately we weren't sitting together on the flight home, of course!! Kailie was so good and slept like this almost the whole flight, we figured out at the end it was because she was sick and had a fever. Her first fever, she was so cute and only wanted to be held and cuddled all the time, that was a treat for Jared and I!

(Dave)

This is Dave and Eddy who we got to stay with . They are awesome fun guys . Eddy is a doctor and was actually Jared's roommate from Med School . And Dave is a Lawyer and a amazing cook who just decided that he didn't enjoy be a Lawyer and thinks that being a Doctor is the way to go and yes Jared tried to talk him out of it! Dave and Jared met on their mission , then were roommates at BYU. Funny that now Dave and Eddy are roommates! By the way they are both single so if you know of anybody just give the shout out!! (Eddy)

We had such a good vacation. We just hung out, relaxed and enjoyed good food, good friends and good family, good shopping, all in a good city!