Beaner's World

Time out for Daddy!

2012-01-28T16:31:00.000-05:00

We are always telling Kailie that if she makes McKean cry then she has to go to timeout.

Seeing as she is constantly bugging him, she spends a lot of time in time out!

Well we now know where she gets it from!!

Her Daddy!!

He is always bugging McKean and making him cry!!

For example: this leads to....

this....(isn't that the cutest saddest face) which leads to.........

this and

more of this

I think it is time for Daddy to go to timeout!!

You do the crime, you pay the time!!

Christmas time around these parts!!

2012-01-28T15:55:00.001-05:00

I love Christmas time and there is just something special about putting up the tree. Kai was old enough to help this year. Her idea of helping consisted of putting the ornaments on the tree and then taking them off again. I love that I have a tree that the kids can play with. Any special ones, I put up top and the bottom ones they can play with. I loved playing with them when I was a kid!

McKean was all in the spirit as well thanks to his big sister!

We didn't do a whole lot of holiday stuff this year like see santa but we did go down to the Riverwalk and looked at all lights.
It was definitely no temple square but it was fun and freezing. It was in the 30's that night. I thought San Antonio was supposed to have really awesome winters.

Kai and Savanna playing on the River walk!

Speaking of the weather. I really don't get it here. I don't think San Antonio gets it either. Here we are putting up Christmas lights and all of these really pretty flowers just all the sudden sprang up in our front bed.

Umm is it spring or winter or fall. Every day is totally different here. Sadly, not too long after this picture the weather turned really cold and all the flowers died.
Now it is back to the ugly dead flower bed.

Just two cute kids!!

Silly girly.

I was trying to get a picture of her in her pretty Christmas dress and she was being her usual silly self.

Finally a cute one!

McKean in his one and only church outfit.

He is a cutie and I finally got him a few more things he could wear.

This Christmas season was definitely a unique one.

We didn't do a whole lot but it was fun to just stay home and hang out as a family!

Funny Boy!

2012-01-26T22:46:00.002-05:00

This video of Mckean is so funny!

We were at the airport on our way to Utah over Christmas. I would blow toward him and then there would be a delay for a second until the wind hit him and he would suck in and then smile.

It was so cute, I just had to share!!

Oh the good ole days!

2011-12-17T16:36:00.000-05:00

Oh the good ole days of hanging out with these guys.

Crazy to think none of these kiddos existed when we first met, except Savanna!

They are just as crazy as their parents!!

I don't know what I do with out Andrea here. We hang out all the time and she is our lifesaver. Her and Justin watched Kai for us when McKean was born. That is no easy feat and we don't know what we would have done without them!!

We were definitely missing the rest of our Hawaiian Crew and Hawaii!!

Thanksgiving

2011-12-16T17:03:00.003-05:00

We had a really nice Thanksgiving this year. My cousin Lyle and his wife invited us up to their house near Dallas! Getting there definitely wasn't fun!! You know how they say the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the busiest time of the year, well that certainly was true for us. What should have taken us 5 hours took us eight!! It was crazy and with a three year old and a one month old baby not so fun. Thankfully they both did great. Kailie watched the chipmunk movie probably 3 or 4 times. Once we made it there though it was really nice.

It was nice to just hang out all day with nothing to do and just be with family. We haven't had that for a long time on Thanksgiving.

My cousin Steve and his four kids and his ex wife Kelly who we all love so much were there. It was fun to see them. They have all grown up.

Kailie playing out side. Right before this photo she had peed her pants all over the patio. Gotta love potty training.

My cousin Kayla. She is so sweet, Kai loved her instantly.

Steve and some of the kids went to the Dallas game so we didn't get to spend too much time with them :(

My cousin Braddon with Mckean. Braddon and I were super close when I was in high school

Sadly, my camera died so I never got a photo with the hosts Lyle and Janie. This is the best I have. Sorry guys!! Kailie loves these two as well. Hopefully we will get to see them more since they are so close!!

Party Time!

2011-12-16T16:31:00.000-05:00

These two little squirts got to celebrate their Birthday together again!

How crazy that we get to live by each other again!

They sure have changed since their 1st birthday party!

They are two super cute kids!

We wanted to do a fun and easy party so we rented a bounce house and thought they kids would just all play out there and we adults could all hang out and talk!

Well that didn't quite happen since it was pouring rain and super cold!!

Lame!

So we played a few games inside and then just let the kids go wild. It was pretty crazy! Of course they were all good while waiting for Cake and Ice cream!

Brinley loves bugs so we did a bug cake for her!!

Andrea helped me make all the bugs and I think they turned out super cute!

These two sure are fun especially when they are not fighting. They play good together for awhile but then they always have their fights. Kailie is pretty obsessed with Brinley and anytime I tell her we are going to the store or anywhere for that matter she always says "with Brinley" as she turns her head to the side and smiles it is pretty cute!

This photo cracks me up.

McKean was not to happy and Madi is looking at him like what's your problem dude!!

Opening up presents.

It was pretty chaiotic and I don't think Kai and Brinley really knew what was going on.

Bundle of JOY!

2011-12-13T18:43:00.000-05:00

Smiles all around for this little duders!

He smiles all day for me but rarely smiles for Jared.

It is kind of funny!

He knows where he gets the good stuff from!!

Growing like a weed!

2011-12-06T17:34:00.000-05:00

This little dude is growing like a little weed!! He is two months already which has gone by incredibly fast! His two months stats are Weight: 10.9 lbs, which puts him in the 45th % instead of the 5th at his two week checkup. Height: 22.44 in.

In his going home from the hospital outfit, definitely not too big on him anymore!!

We have loved having this sweet little guy in our lives.

He is a really good baby, only cries when he is hungry or getting bugged by his crazy sister. Or right around dinner time. It seems that is his fussy time which can make things pretty crazy while trying to prepare dinner!

He loves to cross his arms still.

What have we learned about this little guy so far.

Well for starters he LOVES, LOVES, LOVES his binki!

His second night home he was kind of fussy and so we scrounged around and found some of Kai's old binki's and he has been hooked ever since. I am not really a binki person myself and I don't give it to him at night because I don't want to have to get up in the middle of the night to put his binki back in his mouth. So he gets to enjoy his favorite only during the day!!

Or occasionally a finger will work!

Speaking of sleep, he got kicked out of our room officially a few weeks ago because he is the loudest sleeper. He grunts all night long it is kind of cute but really annoying in the middle of the night.

He seems to like his crib better anyways. I am sure it is more comfortable.

And occasionally he ends up in our bed in the mornings for a while. He is doing pretty good sleeping. He goes on average about 5 hours at night but I am definitely ready for him to bump that up to 7 hours.

Taking a nap with Daddy, sort of!!

He slept like this for over an hour!! Seriously how can that be comfortable.

He loves to be around everyone and look at everything. Of course the ceiling fans are his favorite and the pictures hanging on our wall.

He also loves to stand and is pretty strong.

He is really strong and loves to hold his head up. He has been doing this since he first came out!! He seems to like tummy time and falls asleep in it all the time. Silly boy, you are supposed to hate tummy time!! He even rolled over for the first time on the 25th of Nov. which is crazy because he wasn't even two months old. I think it was just a fluke thing but we will see!

He loves his swing and spend alot of the day in it!

My favorite thing about him is that he is my little cuddle bug. He loves to cuddle. If he is on your left side like in the above photo. He is not happy till he nudges his little head right in by your neck. It is the cutest thing. I wish I could just sit all day and cuddle him.

Happy Birthday Little one

2011-11-16T09:31:00.003-05:00

Kailie turned three today!! It really amazes me how fast time goes by!! These past three years have been pretty amazing and we are so happy to have Kailie in our lives even if sometimes she drives us nuts!! I tired to make her Birthday special since this is the first year that she is more aware of what a Birthday is. She woke up to balloons and our favorite Mickey Mouse Birthday song.

Then it was on to Pancakes and Strawberries.

We plan to have a fun little combined party with her friend Brinley in a few weeks so we just invited the Keck's over for dinner and cake for our own little Family Birthday Party!

I have to say this was the ugliest decorations I have made yet but that is what happens when you are trying to make them late at night, with a newborn and I kept trying to make a skin color which I could never get so I ended up with a ton of yellow and had to use it hence the green and orange. Anyways, if you can't tell it is a water ski cake. Kai absolutely fell in love with water skiing this year at Powell and has been talking about it and asking to go ever since so it seemed only fitting.

As usual we did wrote our favorite things about her from the past year on the sides:

Too...: She is always saying too hot, too cold, too heavy, etc.

Shampoo- we have a season pass to sea world and Kai calls Shamu Shampoo. She is always asking to go see Shampoo.

Prayer: she just recently started saying prayers completely on her own and gets mad if we try to help her. It is really cute. She prays for some funny things and all of it is thank yous, she hasn't quite grasped the concept of praying to ask for things. Some funny things she is thankful for in all of her prayers: airplanes, papa and nana in china, putchee(my parents dog), Teana, aunt Rachel, Brinley, Savanna, Justin, Andrea, the prophet, nursery, church, friends. She is so cute! Instead of saying thank you for she says thank you on!

Sing: she loves to sing and sings most of the day. Some are real songs and some that she just makes up. Her favorite songs to sing are The wheels on the Bus, Aloha Oe, Sunbeam, Rainbow round me,We are a happy family(which she learned entirely from nursery),

Story: Which is Toy Story, definitely her favorite movie of this year!

Momma: She just recently started calling me Momma. Don't know where she learned it but it is super cute!!

Baby and Ruf: have been her two favorite toys this year. For a few months she would not go to bed without them both. Since having McKean, baby which she calls "brown baby" since it is a little brown colored goes with us everywhere.

I see the Temple: We have seen alot of different temples this year. She loves to see them and every time we see one she yells out I See the Temple!

What ya doing: She went through a phase where she asked us over and over again what ya doing?

Friends: She loves here friends and has made many this year. She loves to play with them all!

Bus: AKA the Wheels on the Bus is by far her favorite song and she sings it all day long as well as at night time.

Underwears: We bought her some big girl underwear and I would tell her all the time about how all of her friends where big girl underwear. She always calls it underwears and a few days before her Birthday we actually started potty training her!

Potty: She is just learning to go potty on the potty!!

Butter: She still loves butter and eats straight out of the container!!

Airplane: She loves airplanes and says she is thankful for them in all her prayers.

Brush Hair: She loves to brush hair, which I love!! I think she got the idea from the movie tangled and when she does brush hair she gets out all the brushes and the mirror and then says all pretty!!

Sister: She of course is finally a sister and seems to love being one most of the time!

Toad: is how she says cold. She is the weirdest kid, she always says I'm toad I'm toad while we are eating but when we are outside and it is cold she is totally fine. Silly girl!
Wak: or Rock. She loves to get rocked at night before bed!
Chipmunks: Her new favorite movie!!
Ma more: How she says more. I wonder when she will learn it is just more!
Helper: She is my little helper. She loves to help clean, do the dishes, cook,etc.
Hide and Seek: I taught her this game which she loves even though she doesn't quite understand since she tells me where to hide!!
Hold me: or she says Hold e. She loves to be held!

A few that we missed:
It's Not Woking!!: This is by far her most said phrase and she says whenever she can't do something i.e. put on shoes, clothes, buckles, toys. You name it, we here this phrase about 10 times a day!
What: She says what all day. What momma what!

The birthday girl~!

McKean was super excited to celebrate Kai's birth!!

Happy Birthday!

Eating a little piece of her self!! Yummy!

Best friends or worst enemies, depends on the moment!

Present time!

She got the 2nd Chipmunk movie and hasn't watched anything but it ever since!

She also got some play pots and food for her kitchen which I thought she would totally use but she hasn't really played with them at all!! Lame!

She got a really cute book from my parents too about how she is an a great big sister. She loves it because it is personalized to her!

Present from Savanna and Brinley and yes she is in her underwears!! She had just started potty training and when ever she would go she would take off her pants so I by the end of the day I just give up and let her run around in just her underwear!

Happy Birthday little girl. It has been so amazing having you in our lives the past three years!!

I don't want Diabetes!

2011-11-13T15:03:00.000-05:00

On the morning that McKean was born, we were getting ready to eat breakfast and Kai was sitting on my lap. Jared was drawing up her insulin shot, her morning shots are the most painful and she cries the most during those ones.She turns to me and Says " I don't want an Insulin shot Momma! I don't want Diabetes! This was the first time she had ever made mention to us that she knew she had diabetes. It broke both of our hearts and she still continues to say it whenever we go to give her the morning shot. She also always says Mommy doesn't have diabetes, or Daddy or Brinley, etc. But her babies and Ruf her bear do and she says that they do have diabetes. In hopes that someday she won't have to have diabetes, back in August in Utah we participated in the Walk to Cure Diabetes.

Someday I hope they will cure it, for now we are praying for the Smart insulin to work!!

It was a huge event, we did not expect so many people to be there but it was awesome to see so many who cared about curing this horrible disease!

We had a big group ourselves. It is nice to have so many people that care about little Kailie! Carolyn wanted to have shirts made and my talented sister in-law Marissa designed them. They turned out cute, and it was so fun to all be matching. They are purple because Kai loves purple.

The gang: In no order, the entire Theler family minus John, Sammie, Kate, Alyssa, Jaime, Ian, Marissa and new sweet little baby Elyse. My dad, Jenn and Kelly, Ava, Bennett. Kelly's dad Alan and step mom Robin, Teana, Sadie, Cory and Isaak.

Hanging out with the Jazz Bear.

The starting and finish line.
Getting ready to start! We were at the very back of the pack!

Walking with Aunt Jenn!

Favorite Buddy Isi came to walk!

Although I don't think they did a whole lot of walking!

Papa Gardner made it too!

Chilling with cousin Sophie or hophie as Kai says!

Teana and Sadie enjoying the hot walk!

Jason, Rachel, Nea as Kai says pose for a photo!

And they Walked and Walked and Walked!

Abby, Cam and Nea are so cute!!

Found a new stroller to catch a ride in!

Crossing the finish line with cousin "Nea"

"Phew that was hard work".
Taking a break with Sadie!

Storm chasers!
No clue why they were there but there costumes were really cool!

After the walk they had food and bounce houses to play on!!
Kai of course had a blast!!

She got soaking wet going down the big red bounce house!!
Good thing it was super hot outside!

Best Buds!

The 3 1/2 of us!!

Thanks for all you came, it means a lot to us!! If you want to do a walk where you live just go the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and look up your city. They do them all over the country!!

Hopefully someday they will find a cure so this cute little squirt and millions of others won't have diabetes anymore!!

Halloween

2011-11-12T11:43:00.002-05:00

Halloween this Year was so much fun!!

Usually I try to be creative and come up with a fun family costume but this year I was a little bit preoccupied with this Little Stinker.

So I didn't have a ton of time to come up with costumes. Thankfully last year I was at target after Halloween and found a bunch of costumes super cheap so we just used what we had.

Kailie is a flower gnome just in case you didn't know!

Good thing she has no clue yet about dressing up in costumes, it seems like most little girls her age wants to be one of the disney characters. She was just happy to dress up!! If you can't tell I am a farmer and I just happened to find the most adorable little skunk and a gnome on my farm.

My friend Teana was out here visiting and helping me after the baby. She is not one to dress up but she went through my bins of costumes and came up with this!!

I am not sure what she is but she looked awesome!!

This was Saturday night and we were heading to the church for the fall festival and trunk or treat! Jared had been in Dallas that weekend for the BYU -TCU game so we picked him up at the airport on our way. He was a farmer too and actually totally matched our friend Justin but I forgot to get a photo.

Kai and her buddy Eliza

Sidenote: She is completely obsessed with her baby right now and she has to bring it everywhere.

I guess just like her momma!

It was pretty cold that night.

Kai got a heart painted on her cheek!

Jared and his super excited face or maybe his post Byu Tcu game face!!

McKean was obviously way too small for this outfit but it was so stinking cute I just had to use it!!

Plus this little dude toots up a storm so it was only too fitting for him!

Halloween night Kai's two best friends came over and we all went trick or treating together.

Trick or treating. One thing that was fun and different about Halloween out here is that most people just sat out on their porch to hand out candy. So it was fun that everyone was just outside. In fact, if people were not outside we usually just skipped their house and continued on.

People are way into their outdoor Halloween decorations out here. It makes me very curious what Christmas will be like!

McKean had a costume change for Halloween night since I had both. He was a sweet little Pea in Pod. Which is very fitting because I eat peas straight out of the pod almost everyday!!

Kai loves her little brother!! Sometime a little too much!

Our first family photo since becoming a family of four!

By the end of it all Kai was a pro at trick or treating and has asked me everyday since if she can go trick or treating!

Just a couple of cute videos. To remind me how cute Kailie is.

I love her little voice!

Aunt Rachel Visits

2011-11-12T11:43:00.000-05:00

Glazing the cabinets!

When Mckean was two weeks old Jared's sister Rachel was able to come out and visit. It was so fun to have her here and she was a huge help. I don't think we would have ever gotten our cabinets done without her help.

Kailie absolutely loved having her here. She finally says Rachel now, I have been working with her and learning adults names. She knows all of her cousins and friends but adults she has no clue. Even though she wouldn't say Rachel's name all summer in Utah she definitely knew that Rachel was Cole and Cam's Mom. She is so funny!

I feel bad that the majority of her time out here was spent working on the kitchen but she did get to cuddle this little dude. It was so great to have her out here. Being around Family always makes us wish we lived closer to them!!

Here is a sneak peak of our hard work!

Just wait till you see how ugly they were before!!

Thanks Rachel for all your help!

First Bath!

2011-11-11T12:11:00.002-05:00

So you know how they tell you not to submerge the baby until after there umbilical cord falls out? Well apparently Jared missed that memo. This was McKeans first bath at home and I definitely think he was submerged. Maybe that is why is umbilical cord took forever to fall out and finally came out on the 25th!!

I don't think he loved his first bath so much but now he loves them and doesn't cry at all.

I guess he will probably be a water boy just like the rest of us!!

Giving Dad the stink eye for making him take a bath~!

This silly squirt had to take a "bath" afterwards and insisted in seating in the baby seat!!

When did my little girl get so big!! Here she is during her first bath!!

It seems like just yesterday!

Wow time flies!

2011-11-08T10:09:00.000-05:00

Little McKean is now over a month old which I cannot believe. Time sure goes by fast when you are busy taking care of a newborn and a crazy toddler who constantly wants to smother her baby brother and then throw in the fact that we decided to redo our kitchen all at the same time and it sure makes for a crazy time. Needless to say we have been very busy hence the lack of blogging. My goal is to catch up this week on everything we have been doing this past month but for now here are some adorable photos of McKean that we had done when he was 13 days old.

Enjoy!!

Love the wrinkles. I miss them, they are mostly gone now!!

My little old man!!

Not sure where that green line came from but I love this photo!!

They are so cute!!

The Photographer took a few of this little Ham while I nursed the baby!!

Playing peek a boo!

Eskimo Kisses!

I hate to throw this one in just because this portrays what Kai does to the poor baby all day long!!

He was kind of stinker during my shots with him but I guess we can forgive him for that!!

The photographer is a friend from Church. She did a great job and I am so happy that I found out about her!!

The First Week!

2011-10-16T23:43:00.003-04:00

This little monster turned a week old on Thursday and I must say that this past week has been crazy!! I was super scared about the transition from one to two kids but so far it hasn't been too crazy. I would always hear about the first outing with two and how crazy it is but for me I was forced to have my first outing by myself with the two when McKean was not even 24 hours old. We came home from the hospital late Friday night and his billy ribbon count was a bit high so they told us to take him into the Military hospital the next morning just to check him out. I was going to take Mckean and Jared was going to stay home with Kai but right as I was getting ready to leave Jared got a page and had to go urgently to the OR so we all went into together and I ended up having Kai and McKean for the next few hours at the hospital by myself. It went much better than I expected. Than that night Jared got called in again so he was gone the whole evening. I was basically completely on my own the whole day. It was pretty nuts and I was really happy when Jared got home. Tuesday he had to work all day and again McKean and Kailie both had Dr. appointments so off we went to the hospital again and we ended up being there for over 4 hours. Kai's diabetes appointment took forever and in the end I decided that I really never gain anything by going to the them and feel that they are a complete waste of time.

Waiting for the surgery. Poor little guy had no clue what was coming.

Wednesday we had to go back to the hospital to get his circumcision done!! Again Jared was at work although he was supposed to have the whole week off but he was done by the time we got to the hospital so he could come wait with us. We again ended up being there for 4 hours. I was beginning to think that I should just move into the hospital for how much I had been there the past week.


Kai playing in the waiting area at the hospital. The poor girl has spent so much time there, she has definitely been a trooper.

He was starving as we were waiting for the surgery but they wouldn't let me feed him and they kept telling us it would be just a few minutes well an hour and a half later they still hadn't done it and the poor kid was screaming his head off to eat. I was so mad and frustrated!

He handled everything great, but I have to say that I hate that surgery and I hate the taking care of it after!

Kailie has been a pretty good big sister besides totally mauling the poor baby. She loves him and always wants to hold him, kiss him and smoother him. I am just glad she is not mean to him, hopefully it stays that way!!

I do feel bad though because I feel like I yell at her so much lately. She is a pretty good kid, but she drives me nuts when she climbs all over me when I am feeding or holding the baby. She has also developed a total defiant attitude lately and is constantly telling me NO!! She spends a lot of time in time-out that is for sure!!

Thursday we finally got to just stay home and enjoy our new little guy!! He is such a little cutie, super cuddly and hardly ever cries.

Tiny feet and hands. Although his hands and feet are quite big for his body size!

Here is a view of Kai with the baby and this is very gentle non-smothering moment for her!!

The hospital!

2011-10-14T20:30:00.001-04:00

Staying in the Hospital is never fun!! They bug you all night long and you never get any sleep. The beds are super uncomfortable and I was tied to an ivy so I was really restricted and couldn't walk around much so we were looking to get out pretty fast.

Thursday, Jared was going to head home because he had to go into work in the morning for a few hours but I convinced him to stay with me. I just felt like I didn't want to be alone.

Poor guy had to sleep on this tiny little bench of a bed but I was grateful to have him there.

The next McKean and I just hung out all day at the hospital. It was fun to just have time with him alone and get to know him.

Later that night Jared came back with Kailie. I think she was pretty excited to meet her new little brother. What do you think??

Jared was pretty tired, we both were!

She loved him from the very beginning and just wanted to give him hugs and kisses the whole time.

She picked out a present for McKean so here she is giving it to him! She was so excited to give it to him. She talked about buying a present for the new baby forever.

Mckean also got her a present. She was pretty excited about it.

The released me to go home late Friday night which was great! I knew we would all get more sleep at home than there. Here he is in his going home outfit!

They made me ride in a wheelchair out of the hospital which again I think is funny!! Luckily, the wheelchair was extra big so Kailie could fit on it next to me.

In the car seat!! Not quite as tiny as Kailie but still pretty small in that big car seat. He obviously was not a fan and cried the whole way home!

Kailie was excited to sit by him in the car and to show him his new home!

That night we all got at least a little more sleep. For some reason McKean was not to keen on sleeping in his bassinett, he seemed to sleep better sitting up a bit so between Jared and I we spent the night holding him in the recliner. The next night he did much better and has been sleeping like a champ ever since.

I am Woman Hear Me ROAR!!!

2011-10-13T22:19:00.001-04:00

*The following is my birth story so if you don't like that sort of thing you might not want to continue reading and sorry it is so long I just wanted to remember it all!

I am pretty sure that the above saying came from Women giving Childbirth!! Before I begin my birth story I have to say that I chose to do a natural birth because I hate needles and I really didn't want an epidural. The thought of being numb really freaks me out. So to me the only other solution was to go natural. I didn't do it because I wanted to know what childbirth felt like or feel a connection with other women or feel empowered but after this experience that is Exactly how I felt. It was a truly amazing experience, very spiritual and very empowering!!

My labor basically started when I pulled down a stroller from the wall of the garage. Instantly I started to have contractions. That was Monday night and all that night I had them which meant I didn't get much sleep. They were not too painful and really spread out. The next day they continued and so I went in to get checked because I thought that my water might have possibly broke. Turns out it hadn't but when they checked me they stripped my membranes which my midwife believes is what really started my into my labor. That night my contractions were alot more painful and the next day I went in for my regular check up only to find out that I was official in labor. She sent me home told me to get everything ready and that my baby was coming either that day or the next. She said to stay home as long as possible because laboring at home is much better and boy ain't that the truth. My contraction slowed down that day and so I really didn't feel like I was in labor but I spent my time packing my bag and stuff for Kailie, cleaning, doing last minute things I wanted to get done before the baby came and just spending time with Kailie.

Around dinner they started to get more intense and were about 30 minutes apart. I have to mention that in preparing for this birth I have been practicing relaxation techniques that I got from the book "Birthing from Within" which is an incredible book and I highly recommend. I love that it is realistic about birth, hypnobirthing claims that if you relax childbirth is painless which I personally think is crap. This book says hey childbirth is hard and it hurts but these techniques will help you cope with the pain better and they did for sure.

Gradually throughout the night they started coming closer and closer together so both Jared and I thought for sure the baby would come during the night. Before we went to bed, Jared gave me a blessing, and I have to admit that I was really hoping he would say something like this will be an easy and fast labor but instead he said that it would be hard and difficult but that I could do it and that I needed to rely on strength from the Lord. So I was a little worried after the blessing, the words Hard and Difficult just stuck out in my mind and I thought about them throughout the whole labor.

I have no idea how anybody can sleep when they are in labor? You fall asleep and then you have a contraction, it is more like torture. At two o'clock I finally got up and took a bath and then a shower and by that point the contractions were about 10 min apart but were getting really painful and I just couldn't handle the pain by myself anymore so I woke up Jared. I felt bad waking him up but I knew that I couldn't continue with out his help. He talked me through my breathing and rubbed my back since that is where all of my pain was. They started to come closer together and and were getting really intense. I learned that if I really concentrated on my breathing that it did make the contractions less painful. Also for me, I learned halfway through the night that I cannot stay in the same position for more than three contractions otherwise the pain would get too intense in my back.

Around 4 am they started to slow down again and so we went for a walk around the neighborhood which is supposed to help speed up labor but instead it seemed to slow it down and when we got back we were both exhausted we fell asleep for a few hours. I still had some contractions but they were not that painful. They next morning they were back to being 30 minutes apart which was so annoying and defeating. It felt like I had been up all night and had not progressed at all. So we just went on with our day. Kai woke up and we ate breakfast, and just hung out. We took another walk, nothing really seemed to help and I was starting to get tired and wasn't sure how much longer I could continue. The pain was bad and I just kept thinking how much more painful are these going to get because I don't think I can handle much more pain.

Jared was so amazing through all of these. I was worried before hand because he really wasn't that supportive of my quest to do it natural but instead he kept telling me that I could do it and he was right there by my side for each contraction.

Once they checked me and said that I was only at a 5 I was feeling totally defeated and just felt like I couldn't continue much longer. The contractions were starting to come closer together and getting more and more painful. When we got to our room, immediately the nurse came in and wanted to strap me to the bed. I instantly felt like a Prisoner and was so mad that we came to that hospital. I knew the military hospital was supportive of natural birth and let you walk around, take a shower, whatever you needed. Here they literally were giving me no choice and I was really starting to freak out. I basically ran to the bathroom and just wanted to hide in there so they couldn't make me get in bed. All the while the contractions were coming closer and closer together and the nurse was really mean.

She came in and was asking us all the normal patient questions and I was literally starting to freak out, I just had a horrible feeling. The room was tiny and old and felt dirty. There was no windows and I seriously just wanted to run out the door and never look back. I asked the nurse to give us a minute and then I told Jared that I wanted to leave. I had been in labor for over 30 hours at that point and I didn't want to birth my baby and this hospital. It just felt so cold and uninviting. We called the military hospital again to see if they had any rooms open up and told them our situation they said we could leave if we wanted but it would be against medical advice and they didn't know if they military insurance would cover us at a new place, as we were discussing it I went to the bathroom again, and when I reached down to wipe I felt something coming out, it felt like a balloon and I knew it was my water. That is exactly what happened with Kai. Instead of breaking it is like the whole water sac tries to come out. So of course that ended the discussion of leaving. Jared was awesome because he really stood up for me to the Doctors and staff and was like hey we are doing this natural and she is not going to be continually strapped to the bed!!

At this point the contractions were becoming unbearable and only a few minutes apart. They brought in the anesthesiologist because they always have to come in to talk with you and while we were talking, I started having a contraction and I felt like I needed to push and something was coming out of me. I started yelling "Something is coming out, I need to push I need to push" at the same time I kept yelling I can't do this it hurts to much!! (in all of my reading for this, I have learned that once you get to the point where you say I can't do this anymore give me medicine that is when the baby is pretty much coming and in my case it was.)

They called in the doctor and they broke my water, finally at this point I laid down and the doctor told me it shouldn't be too long before I would be ready to push. She said probably a half hour or so but when the next contraction came I just started yelling " I have to push I have to push, something is coming." The pain was so intense during these contractions that I just had no control over my breathing or anything and I just kept saying that I couldn't do it anymore. The doctor or should I say doctors all came in, literally there was like 10 people in my room at least they were all women which helped. I asked them how I was supposed to push because I really had no idea. They told to take a deep inhale, hold my breath and push as hard as I could. Well when the next contraction came, I could do that for the first breath and one good push and then the pain just got the best of me and I just ended up yelling the rest of the contractions first that I couldn't do it anymore and then once he actually started to come out over the next couple contractions I would just yell as loud as I could, GET IT OUT, GET IT OUT!!! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU, DO JUST GET IT OUT!!

Jared kept telling me that I had to push, they couldn't get him out without me pushing but I just felt like I couldn't push. It just seemed like I wasn't doing it right and there was no way I could hold my breath during those most painful contractions.

I am sure everyone in the rooms around me could hear me yelling, I think I had to push through 5 contractions and then he finally came out. Poor Baby, it definitely wasn't the most calm birth, he came out hearing his Mom scream GET IT OUT AND NEVER AGAIN, I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN!!

Once he came out the pain was instantly gone. It was amazing!! They laid him on my chest for a few seconds and then whisked him away of course.

Then came the worst part of the whole labor. The delivery of the placenta. I don't even remember delivering the placenta with Kailie but this one I will never forget. They started me on pitocin to help deliver the placenta and I will never let them do that again. Anyways it wasn't super painful pushing it out, it just took forever and I was already completely exhausted and then once it did come out it had torn or something and some of it was still in my uterus so this doc. came in and kept putting her hand up into my uterus and scraping it all out all the while she was pushing really hard on the outside of uterus. This was so painful! She continued doing it for at least 30 minutes and I wanted to kick her so bad!!! I was so mad, here I had just given birth and thought the pain was over, I hadn't even held or seen my baby yet really and she was causing me all this pain. Seriously was the worst pain ever. Eventually she finally got her hands out of me and I was able to hold McKean and just enjoy my new baby.

We ended up only being in the hospital about an hour when I started pushing so I went from a five to a ten in a super short time. We were both really glad that we didn't leave obviously because then Jared would have been delivering the baby in the car. In fact it all happened so fast that when it was over I touched my head and realized that I still had my sunglasses on my head.

I think both Jared and I were pretty amazed that I actually did it naturally even if it wasn't pretty and according to the nurse and the docs, I was the first natural birth most of them have ever seen which makes sense since they are clearly an anti-natural birth hospital!!

As the night went on and the next day I just really started to feel the empowerment of it all and the connection with the other millions of women who have given birth naturally. It truly was an amazing experience and although I swore while I was pushing that I would never do it again I think that I want to. I finally know exactly what to expect. I know how painful the contractions get and it was nice to know that they didn't really get any more painful as the labor progressed just closer together. I know how my body births and I loved how fast I recovered. I felt great the next day and have felt good ever since. I will just definitely make sure that I go to a hospital that is pro natural birth and with a midwife.

Coming home was really weird, where ever I went throughout the house I would think "oh I can't sit there, that hurts when I have a contraction or wow that spot was a good place." I just kept thinking that I was going to have contractions everywhere I went. I guess that is what happens when you have painful contractions for 4 days straight!

I truly feel as though I can do anything now and it is a very liberating feeling!!

I am Woman Hear me ROAR!!

Tuffy

2011-10-12T20:30:00.003-04:00

My parents dog Tuffy passed away Sunday totally unexpectedly!

He was such a good dog and so much fun to play with!!

I am going to miss him!


Me and my Buddy!

From the moment Tuffy first met Kailie he has been so curious about her and whenever she would cry as a baby he was always right there by her. There were like little buddies.Of course as she has gotten older they became more like siblings and got along great sometimes and other times they would fight!!

They last time we saw Tuffy!!
I have been telling Kailie that Tuffy died and is now in Heaven and that we won't see him again. Now she walks around saying that "tuffy died, he's in oven, he is getting really hot." I guess she thinks heaven means the oven. She is definitely going to miss him when we go visit Papa and Nana.

We are going to miss you buddy!!

McKean Austin Theler

2011-10-09T22:30:00.000-04:00

Introducing the newest member of our family:

McKean Austin Theler

Born October 6th, 2011 at 6:54 pm

Weighing in at 6 lbs. 4.5 oz. and 19 in long.

He looks just like his daddy from the nose down. It is kind of creepy just because when I look at his nose, mouth and chin it seems like I am looking right at Jared. He also has quite a bit of brown hair and for the moment his eyes are brown!

The labor was long and crazy but in the end he came so fast that I still had on my sunglasses!! The full birth story will be coming shortly.

He is a cutie and seems to be a pretty good baby so far. Nursing great, sleeping great, not to fussy.

Ready or Not: why is it always Not!

2011-10-05T14:59:00.001-04:00

I just got home from my 38 week appointment and found out that I am in early labor and will deliver either tonight or tomorrow!! Yikes!!! I definitely was not ready to go this early!! On Monday, I went to get down a stroller from a hook in the garage, it was stuck and kind of hard to get down. Well as soon as it touched the ground I started to have major back pains and then some contractions. I was worried I did something, that night I thought my water broke as well so yesterday I went into the hospital to make sure my water didn't break. 6 hours later they finally checked me, said I was fine and sent me on my way. Driving home I started to have some major contractions and then all night they were pretty bad just not close together. Today at my regular appointment they checked and said that I am 3 cm dilated and 80% effaced. The weird thing is I really haven't had that many contractions today so I guess we will see what happens.

Of course we are so not ready, Jared's schedule for work is pretty crazy and I still have a bunch of things I wanted to get done before the baby came, like catching up the blog on our crazy summer, weeding the backyard, making a bunch of meals to freeze for after the baby. Not to mention this Friday is our 5th Wedding Anniversary and we were hoping to actually go out for the night since we rarely get that now with Kai and Diabetes. Saturday we were planning on going to Sea World to enjoy one last fun day together as a family of Three.

I am definitely feeling anxious and cannot believe that in a few hours we will have a new baby!! So weird!!

It has been just the three of us for so long now that it is going to be so crazy to have another. I hope Kailie handles it okay. Right now she talks about the baby all time and how he is going to come live with us. But who knows how she will handle actually having him here all the time and her not being the center of our universe anymore.

I love this little squirt so much even when she drives me crazy. I think sometimes I forget that she is only two and expect more of her, but I am going to miss just the two of us hanging out together all day long. One of my favorite things we do is in the morning if we don't have to be anywhere we just hang out in bed, playing, cuddling, tickling. We have been doing this since she was just a baby and I love and will cherish those moments of no distractions and just hanging out together. The other day we were at the grocery store and she was actually sitting in the cart. She kept stealing my grocery list and pen and saying I hide it from you mommy, then she would laugh. It was so funny and she just seemed so little and toddler like.
I told her one night as we were eating dinner that the baby was going to be coming out of my belly soon. I was just ready my birthing book and I told her that the baby was going to come out of my whohaa which is what we call that part and that it was going to hurt really bad. Well, she has never forgotten that and all day she says to me "baby come out of your whohaa mommy, baby going to hurt your whohaa." I didn't think she would really pay attention but most days that is the first thing she says to me!! Silly kid!! She also thinks there is a baby in her belly and that it is going to come out of her belly button. She says she doesn't want it to hurt her whohaa!!

She also loves to help me cook. Last week we spent a few hours baking bread and banana bread together. It was fun and messy but she definitely loves to help. She has helped Jared put the changing table together and when ever we work in the yard she just follows us around and "helps" out.

Well, I guess that is all for now, I need to go prepare for this baby that is coming soon!!

Farewell New York!

2011-10-04T00:25:00.000-04:00

The time finally came where we had to say goodbye to our friends and our home in New York. Although we were only there for a year we made some dear friends and will miss them all terribly!

Here is a list of my Favorite and Least Favorite things about living in Syracuse.

Our friends: I never got a group shot which is sad but we love all of the people out there. Some of our closest friends were the D'Haenens, the West's, the Water's and the Austins! We learned alot from all of them and are so grateful for their

Wegmans park and Wegmans grocery store: I know it is crazy to miss a grocery store but it seriously is the best grocery store I have ever seen. I miss it so much and feel deprived of good food here in San Antonio. The park was the best playground/ park ever and we all miss it.

The fall time: The East truly does have amazing falls and now we are here where there is no fall again.

Our house: I loved our house there. Kailie asks all the time if we can go back to our old house!

Kailie making her little friends:

She had some really great friends and still asks to go to play with them all the time!

This view!!

This is what I saw everyday driving to my house. It is the Seneca river and boy was it pretty!

The Nursery: Kai loved the nursery there.

Her last Sunday there.

She loved this nursery leader and was always in her arms. I can't remember her name right now but she was awesome.

Our Primary Class. I never thought I would enjoy primary but these kiddos were pretty awesome!! Most of the time anyways!

The Drive-In Movies: I really miss this. All growing up and especially through High School and College going to the drive-in was always a favorite of mine. We went a bunch of time and usually with there guys the D'Haenens family!! So fun!

Having fun together!

Eating Daddy's delicious Coconut popcorn.

Finally Movie time!

I also really enjoyed the following this past year.

Family Festivals
The Y- gym class for Kai
Ithaca
Traveling to Boston, NYC and Niagara
The snow: I know the snow was crazy but I am going to miss the snow. Maybe just not 179 inches of it.

Picking fresh fruit straight from the farms and the amazing farmers market!

A few things we won't miss are:

The snow: At least not that much!

Cold for so long

No good restaurants

Lack of outdoor recreation

NY State laws and Taxes can you say crazy

Blah

Gloomy, rainy days

Before we left we had a good bye party with all of our friends.

The West's hosted it and are so awesome. We really miss them!

The kids all playing on the tramp!

Kai getting ready to roast a marshmallow.

Driving the four wheeler around. I don't know who let her do that but everybody better watch out because she is a crazy driver.

Kai and her good friend Harper.

Thanks New York and all our friend for the fun times.

Temple Trip

2011-10-03T23:24:00.000-04:00

Before we left New York the primary did an activity at the temple. We went as teachers to support it plus we wanted to go to Palmyra and all the sites one more time. Kai loves the temple and always says "I SEE the Temple" whenever we pass one or any church building. She had a blast playing with a bunch of her friends. Here she is with Dash and Dwight!

Listening to the guide talk about the temple.

Touching the temple!

Playing with Dash. These two are definitely trouble makers together.

Part of the gang, with the Sacred Grove in the background. This is the only temple that has a window that you can see in. When it was built Pres. Hinckley wanted a window that looked out to the Sacred Grove and vice versa. Pretty cool, I had no idea!

The kiddos. I love all the kids and miss them!

Taking a breather in front of the front door.

Family Shot, we rarely get these.

I love all the stain glass around the temple.

It is supposed to be like the sacred grove and is very beautiful

I See the Temple!!

Palmyra

2011-10-03T23:00:00.000-04:00

After the temple activity we went to the top of the Hill Cumorah to have a picnic. Man I love that place. I have had some amazing experiences there and every time I go back I feel the spirit so strong!

Dash, Kai and Bailey checking out the view!!

The angel Moroni Statue

It is so weird to see the hill without the Pageant stage on it. It does give a pretty amazing view. I love the one lone tree in the back, it is one of my favorite landmarks there.

Kai is standing in pretty much the same spot where I can a sure knowledge of the Book of Mormon. I was able to be a cast member in the pageant back in 2002 and while I was there they challenged us to read the entire Book of Mormon. I took the challenge and finished reading it right in this spot. It is an experience I will never forget and it was so awesome to go back there all these years later with my husband and little girl.

After lunch we headed over the Sacred Grove to walk through it one last time. It was so beautiful this time of year and probably pretty similar to how it was at the time of the first vision.

There is such a quiet spirit there. If it weren't for the mosiquitos I could spend a long time there.

Me and my best bud walking together.

Living so close Palmyra was definitely a highlight for me of living in Syracuse.

I really miss going there.

Papa and Nana Visit!

2011-09-30T00:34:00.000-04:00

Way back in May Jared's parents came out to visit us in New York for a few days. It was fun as always to have them there. Kai absolutely loved and just fell in love with Papa and Nana!

While they were visiting we decided to drive down to Ithaca, NY which is one of the most beautiful places around and see some of the waterfalls.

There was this trail that followed along this beautiful river with a bunch of smaller waterfalls on it. This is the beginning.

I needed a ride like that. I was just getting over being Nauseous all day long so this was one of the first times I had done anything really active in a few months.

Needless to say I was definitely huffing and puffing!!

Checking out the moss!

Looking at a caterpillar that Papa found and that Kailie proceeded to throw over the edge.

Poor little guy, sorry our brute of a daughter found you!!

Great Family Photo along the trail. Seriously so Beautiful!

Always has to have sticks or rocks in her hand.

Nana and Kai also showing off their pretty dogwood flowers!

Preferred method of transportation, sitting in the basket!!

The tallest waterfall East of the Mississippi. After seeing Niagara we definitely didn't believe it but after googling it we discovered it was true. Wow, definitely didn't seem that big!

Spring green!!

If you have ever spent a spring in the East then you truly know where the name spring green comes from. Everything was so vibrant!

Kai's favorite part of the whole day was throwing rocks into the river.

I had to include this video because Kai absolutely loves it and still asks even now almost five months later to watch it. She just calls it "Papa Waterfall"

Walking down the river bed.

Bed Less

2011-09-16T15:00:00.007-04:00

Sleeping with her beloved Ruf bear between her legs!

This poor child has been bedless and essentially homeless for the past three months. We left New York the end of June traveled across the country for a week, spent 10 days in a hotel, 2 nights in our house without any of our stuff. Then after our things were delivered we discovered that the movers lost a bunch of the screws for her crib which she was still happily sleeping in and they also lost all of the slats for the toddler bed we had just recently got. So she got to continue sleeping in a small playpen. Then we went to Utah for a month and moved from house to house, playpen to playpen. Thank goodness she is a good sleeper and just goes with the flow.

Her first time sleeping not in a crib besides our bed. When we first got to TX, she was really sick and was up all night every night for over a week. We were still in a hotel at the time and were all completely exhausted so I finally got the brilliant idea of putting a movie on for her so she could watch in the middle of the night and Jared and I could get some sleep. She loved it and insisted on sleeping on the couch the rest of the time we were there. She only fell off a couple of times surprisingly.

Once we got into the house she would find any place she could to sleep like our rolled up carpet!

Or just straight on the super Hard hard wood floor!

She even tried the baby's Bassinet!

Of course after hearing her playing around in the room forever I went in and made her move to the blow up mattress we had up.

Of course I am not sure if that was much better for her.

Seriously, that cannot be comfortable?

Once we got back to TX, Jared made some new slats for her toddler bed and she finally got to sleep in her very small Big Girl Bed and she also finally got to sleep in her new room! Which is purple of course!

She was so excited and kept saying that she was so big!!

I am sad that she is so big but loving her at this stage. She is so fun and definitely keeps me entertained all day!! I am cherishing these last weeks we have together just the two of us before the baby comes. She is my buddy and sidekick. Everywhere I go she goes too and when I am out without her I miss her like crazy!! I wish we could just freeze time and keep her at this cute innocent fun stage forever.

Love you little Big Girl!

36 and Coming Fast!

2011-09-16T00:08:00.000-04:00

I cannot believe I am already 36 weeks!!! AAHHH I am seriously starting to freak out!! I feel so unprepared for this baby and especially for the birthing part!! At this point in my pregnancy with Kai, I was put on bedrest and told that they would be delivering her the following week. How am I already to that point??

37 weeks with Kai!

I definitely feel that this baby is bigger than Kai was and I think that I look bigger. I know that I have gained more weight so hopefully the baby actually gets some of it this time although I am definitely not opposed to delivering a smaller baby again!! The past few weeks I have really started to get uncomfortable and this past weekend my feet actually swelled up which totally freaked my out. I had none of this with Kai so now I understand what everyone always talks about how uncomfortable they are at the end and can't wait to get the baby out.

I have an appointment on Tuesday, here's to hoping that everything is good and I can have the next few weeks to get more settled, prepare for the birth, buy a crib, spend time with Kailie and maybe even actually pick out a name for the little man growing in my belly!!

Any advice on natural childbirth?? I am a little scared!

Dear Daddy!

2011-08-15T09:00:00.003-04:00

Dear Daddy,

Mom and I are having so much fun here in Utah!!

We have been swimming and playing with friends and cousins all day.

Hophie (Sophie) and I had fun swimming in Papa and Nana's pool.

Did you know that Utah has the best weather.

We can play outside all day and even go to paygounds (playgrounds.)

Everyday when I wake up the first thing I ask Mom is "Where is Coe (Cole) and Cam."

I love playing with them all day!

At night time I get really tired and love to just cuddle with Aunt Rachel and Cole.

Then we get to go Papa Gardner's house and

play with your favorite Putchee and Tuffy!!

Most of the the time we get along, especially when I share my food with them!

Mom took me to this fun place where I got to sit in a fun chair that goes up and down

and wear all this cool stuff.

Then I had to open my mouth really wide while they did all these cool things inside it. I did so good, they said I was the best two year old they have ever seen and they even gave me flouride since I was so good to just sit there.

After they were done, I loved it so much I kept asking them to do it adain, adain (again).

I have been helping Papa fill in all the big holes outside.

For some reason Papa kept taking out all the big rocks that I put into the holes.

I got to go up to Logan and Deweyville to play with Aunt Jenn and Ava and Bennett. We stopped by the Logan Temple. You know how much I love to see the Temple!

I had to play in the water at the temple too.

Buster and I had fun playing together

Ava and I became quick friends and fought alot as well.

I like Bennett too, sometimes I am mean to him and boss him around!

Then we went back to Papa and Nana's house and I got to see new baby Elyse! I love her so much and wanted to touch her all the time.

I got to go swimming again this time Aunt Jenn, Teana, Tricia, Ava and Bennett came. I was so excited to swim that I just jumped right in without my jacket on and Papa had to jump in and save me.

I am getting really good at shooting baskets!

And I love going down the slide.

Sometimes I get a little scared but then I say adain adain.

Well Daddy that is what we have been doing.

I miss you alot and ask everyday to go on airpane to the new house.

I keep telling everyone "I just don't know where my daddy is!"

I ove you,

Kai Kai

Boy Oh Boy!

2011-06-13T20:22:00.000-04:00

Everyone keeps saying that I don't look pregnant at all, well here is proof that I definitely look pregnant!

We found out last week that we are having a BOY! We were both pretty surprised. Originally I thought it was as a boy and I was so sure and then the last two months whenever I would picture our family with the new baby I would see a girl so I was sure it was a girl and so was Jared. It took me awhile to really come to grips with having a boy, I want boys but I really for sure want Kailie to have a sister so I was a little dissapointed but now I am fine with it!! Jared on the other hand is super excited! There is a huge shortage of Theler males in the family, his family is pretty excited as well. Now it is on to picking out a name and quite honestly I haven't really thought of any boy names this whole pregnancy except for the one that we thought of last time.

Any Suggestions??

Daddy ttime

2011-06-07T23:04:00.003-04:00

Kai loves to spend time with her Daddy! I am not sure how much he loves to spend with her but it is fun when they do!

Making cookies together. Jared likes to eat and bake sweets so he does most of the baking.

I like to eat them as well which is why I pretty much avoid making them as much as I can.

Making a mess. Daddy definitely does not handle messes very well.

Helping to mix!

Cooking dinner with Daddy or at least testing it to make sure it is good.

Blind cooking! Definitely the best way to go.

I think somebody loves her Daddy!

Outside Play

2011-06-07T22:34:00.001-04:00

This kid cracks me up.

She has been soaking up her chance to play outside now that it is finally warm. It seems everyday she does something different out there that just makes me laugh!

Thought I would share a few!

This day she was out playing and comes walking in like nothing was wrong, then I saw her head.

She must have fallen into something that I am hoping was mud!!

Our yard was full of dandelions for a few weeks, it was so pretty and Kai loved picking all the "flowers".

One day I glanced out and saw her just chilling like this staring at the sky!

This day she insisted on eating lunch outside. We need to invest in a kids outdoor table.

This is one of my favorites.

Our neighbor gave her a bike and this helmet which she decided she needed to wear everyday! In her Jammies, sitting in her booster chair, reading books with her feet just chilling inside!

Silly kiddo!

Having a pretend pool party with all her buddies!

Always in the buff, seriously child!

Eating dinner outside while Mommy mows the lawn!

Her new favorite trick, going down backwards!

She definitely keeps my life exciting.

I love this kid!!

Dance Class

2011-06-07T11:54:00.001-04:00

My friend Jamie decided to teach a little dance class to members of the ward, do I put Kai in it even though she was way younger than most of the kids. She loved it and still talks about wanting to go to dance class!

The day of her "performance" was the same day and time as my ob appointment so both Jared and I had to miss her first performance ever. It was so sad to me that here is my first child doing her first ever performance and I missed it. Thankfully my friend was able to videotape it for me.

In her dance outfit!

A video during her dance class.

One from her actual performance! She really doesn't know what she is doing but she is still so cute, I just want to eat her!

Poppy Trees

2011-05-26T15:11:00.003-04:00

We definitely have enjoyed the blossoms on all the trees during May. It has been 5 year since I saw them and of course this was Kai's first experience. I told her that they were like the popcorn trees from the song and she was hooked. Everywhere we drove, she pointed the Poppy trees out. We don't have any popcorn trees on our street so we had to make a special stop for these ones!!

Mostly it has just been SOOOO nice to finally see the sun and have warm days. April was the rainiest April Syracuse has had, add that to the crazy winter where we got 179 inches of snow in our yard and we were definitely ready for some sunshine and blossoms!!

I wonder if the trees blossom in San Antonio?? I am guessing they probably don't.

Kai somewhat singing the Popcorn Popping song. We sing it every night as part of her bedtime songs. Excuse my horrible voice. I was definitely not blessed with a good singing voice.

Happy Mothers Day

2011-05-10T17:14:00.000-04:00

Mother's Day was really great this year!! It was really nice just having Jared home for the weekend. He was gone half of the month in April on different trips and since I am still having morning sickness it was great to have some help and even a break!

I love being a Mom to my little monkey!! She is so fun, cute and crazy.

This is the Mother's day card that her nursery leaders made for me! So cute. This is the first one of many of these types of things I am sure but it was so cute to get it!!

Jared really tried to make the day special for me which was cute. He woke up early and cleaned the kitchen while he made me my favorite breakfast right now, german pancakes with fresh Strawberries and real Maple syrup. Church was really nice, as the primary kids were singing I looked at Kailie and realized next year she will be up there singing. The priesthood took over Primary so all the women got to go to RS and then we had refreshments and were able to chat and catch up with everybody!! Every ward should adopt this, it truly was a nice break.

Then we came home and all of us took a two hour much needed nap! We have all had colds this week, then we just hung out, had whatever we could find for dinner. It was nice, chill and just fun to hang out with the two people I love most!!

Easter Fun

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Jello Rubber Ducky pond made by Summer!

I have officially become a horrible blogger. I blame it on it being pregnant and still not feeling great!! We should find out here in the next couple of weeks what it is so that is exciting!

Anyways, we had a great Easter, it was 10,000 times better than last year that is for sure!!

The little ones got a head start on searching for those eggs!

Saturday we had an Easter Egg Hunt at out friends The Auston's house followed by a delicious brunch! The weather has been anything but spring weather here, rainy and cold. We finally had our first real warm days this past week! This day wasn't super cold which was nice but it rained all morning so the hunt was pretty wet!!

Kailie had a blast. It took her a few minutes to figure out what she was supposed to do but then she was all over the place, getting as many as she could!

Doesn't she look so excited. She really did have a good time but would not smile for the camera!!
The next day I was talking with a lady from chruch who said that her son had woken up in the middle of the night throwing up because he had eaten so much candy. She asked if Kai had eaten alot and as I thought about it I realized Kai didn't eat any candy on Easter. She never opened her eggs to discover that there was candy inside.

Her favorite friend Avery.

Everyday she grabs her purse and other belongings and says "See ya later Mom." When I ask her where she is going she always says " To Avery's house."

Kris and Jared watching the fun. Jared ended up wearing the bunny ears all day, I think he forgot that he had them on!

After the hunt Kailie quickly found her favorite friend Jenn. She always wants to be held by Jenn whenever we are around her!

The kiddos stuffing their cute faces.

Sunday was dreary, rainy and overcast as usual. Kailie in her cute Easter dress and Hat. You gotta love target's one dollar area, that is where I got the hat! It is a little bit big but still darling! I wanted to get a family pic but we never did!

Showing off the easter craft she made in Nursery!! She is so cute and wore her hat all day at church!

Checking out the Easter Basket. I think from now on I am going to fill the basket with more Christ centered things such as photos, stickers, etc.

Kai's choice of shoes while we dyed the eggs on the wrong feet no less!

Putting on the Toy Story wrappers, of course!

Kai loved this part and had dye all over her at the end.

We had dinner that evening at the West's house. They are such a great family and we are so happy to have met them and all of our other friends here.

It was just a really great Easter, the talks in church were great. I noticed that there were a lot of visitors there to celebrate the great occasion

New York City the Third

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We ventured down to the big city for a third go around and I guess the third time really is a charm. Jared had a work conference down there so he was gone all day and it was just the Kaister and I left alone to brave the Big City all by ourselves. The thing I was most worried about was having to drive into the city and find parking all by myself. We stayed outside the city in White Plains and so my choices were to drive or take the metro and taking the NYC metro with a stroller is not fun and since I was about 2 1/2 months pregnant and right in the middle of my morning sickness phase I decided driving was the best option. I was also really nervous about accidentally ending up in a bad neighborhood so I thought for the first day we would just drive over to Hoboken NJ and visit Carlos Bakery from the TV show the cake boss. So I start driving and then I realize that in order to get to NJ I have to drive through the Bronx which completely freaked me out but it ended up being fine, and we made it to cute little Hoboken in one piece.

This was the line to get into the Bakery.

I had researched before hand and knew it would probably be a long line.

Kai was such a sport as we waiting in line outside for a good 45 min.

Once we got inside was another story. She was just really ansey and it was so crowded she couldn't really move. Thankfully, one of the workers noticed her starting to get crazy and helped me even though it wasn't my number. It was fun to go and see, the pastries were okay nothing I would have to go back for. I mainly just went because I really didn't feel like walking around Manhattan in the rain with a crazy two year old.

The next day we drove into the city again and went to the childrens museum there. It was free with this science pass I have so it definitely made it worth it. Kai had a blast. Here she is feeding Alphie the dragon.

Afterwards we headed to Central Park to just hang out and explore. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother bringing a stroller since she usually prefers to walk instead.

Central Park was so much fun.
The weather warmed up and there was this awesome group playing some great music.

Kai wanted to be right by the band so that is where we were. Thankfully there was another little girl there as well and the two of them became quick friends.

The boathouse and a new friend!

Checking out the ducks!!

This guy was pretty cool. He would make this huge bubbles and all the kids would chase them and pop them I gave hime some money and then he let Kai "Blow one" she thought it was a blast.

Classic shot of Central Park.

We stopped and Kai got her portrait done. She didn''t really sit there the whole time, he took a picture of her and then she went off to run around. The portrait turned out pretty good.

We then finally made it FAO Schwarz which I have been wanting to go to forever. It was awesome because it was almost totally empty. So much better than the last time we tried to go there and the wait just to get in was like an hour.

Kai had a blast on the BIG piano. I thought it was pretty fun to!!

This trip was definitely low key and fun. I didn't get sick at all which was a nice surprise and made me actually want to go back to the big city someday!

One Year Later

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Today marks the one year anniversary of Kai getting diagnosed with Diabetes. Definitely not a happy day for Jared and I. Once again it falls on General Conference weekend. This weekend will always be bittersweet for us. The good of hearing the apostles and Prophet give us guidance and also the reminder of the day that our lives changed forever.

Last year in the Hospital. This photo pretty much sums up how we all were feeling that weekend!

I am amazed how fast the time has gone by! We have definitely had our rough times this year but overall it has been a great year, Kai is at such a "mostly" fun age minus the temper tantrums and such. I can only hope that this next year will be even better. I remember while we were in the hospital last year all the diabetes specialists kept telling us that things would get better and I totally didn't believe them because I know that things will never really be better or the way they were before but they have gotten easier. This is our life now and most days its not too bad.

This day has also become a cursed day for me as far as running goes. Last year, Jared and I were signed up the Ford Island Bridge Run which is a 10K. It was my first race ever, I was so excited just because I love Ford Island and was so excited to run around it but then we spent the weekend in the hospital. Now fast forward to this year, Jared decided he wants to run a marathon this year so we sign up for the NYC half Marathon for you guessed Today. I signed up just to do the 5k but was excited and then the very next day I found out I was pregnant. I planned on still doing the race and was still running a little bit. A bunch of girlfriends from the ward are signed up to do it as well. But now I am sick Sick Sick. I have already done the whole NYC and barfing thing together so I opted at the last minute not to go. So once again I am missing a race this same say that I have already paid for at least this time it is for a much BETTER reason.

I have just come to the conclusion that I should never sign up for a race again that falls on this same weekend.

Kai this year. Wearing the church outfit she picked out all by herself.

Kai and I will be spending the day enjoying Conference, Jared will be running and all of us are just grateful that we are not sitting in a hospital room.

No April Fools Joke Here!!

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So I guess today is as a good of day as any to finally announce that we are expecting another little bundle of craziness. I first announced to Jared that I was pregnant with Kai on Aprils Fools day but it was only a joke. Well the joke was on me since the next day I took a test and found out that I actually was pregnant. When I called Jared at work to tell him he totally did not believe me, of course. That is what you get for crying wolf.

Anyways this time it is not a joke! We found out back in February and have slowly been telling people but I figured today was the perfect day to publicly announce it.

I have not been to the doctor yet but I am going soon so I don't know the "actual" due date but it should be sometime in Mid-October.We are very excited and nervous all at the same time. Currently I am in the whole sick all day phase which makes for a very messy house. Thankfully we Never really get unexpected visitors so no one has to see the disaster.

Kai and the baby will be Just one month shy of 3 years apart which is not really what I wanted but in the end it is better. Kai will hopefully be out of her Terribly Two's and we will all be better at managing her diabetes.

Any guesses as to what you think it is? I personally hope for a girl so that Kailie for sure gets a sister but I have a feeling it is a boy. Jared is hoping for a boy of course since there is a shortage of Theler males right now but he thinks it is a girl. At least one of us will be right!!

Kailie

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Kailie has been so much fun lately! Her little personality is coming out.

Favorite things:

Baby and Ruf- These two go with her everywhere. Whether it be in the car or to bed she has to have them or the fits come out!! Speaking of bed time she is very particular about her bedtime songs and must sing in this order or else:

The Wheels on the Bus or "Bus" as she calls it.
Abc's
Once there was a Snowman or "snowman"
Popcorn Popping
Aloha Oe
Sunbeam
Give said the little stream

And then we have to make sure that her water(humidifier) and Heater are both on. Her sippy cup is full with not just water but "Ice, Ice" and then she has to tell us at least a few times that the snow is all gone and the chipmunks are taking a nap. She is crazy!!

Playing with her diabetes stuff.

She loves to pretend to draw up insulin and then give it to all her babies.

Dressing and undressing herself.

From some reason she loves this overall dress. I think she thinks it is an apron, whenever I wear my apron she always goes and puts this on!

All dressed to play outside but with all this snow we will just settle for riding the bike inside!

She loves to read books and will sit around her books for a long time totally entertaining herself!

Making food for all her dolls is a must everyday!!

Some days it even turns into a picnic!

Dressing up is a usually activity as well.
Good thing she got lots of leis at our goodbye in Hawaii!

For some reason she loves to wear this crochet baby blanket that my Grandma Gardner made for her like it is a cape.

I don't know where she came up with the idea she doesn't even watch shows with superheros that have capes but she sure loves to wear it.

Eating popcorn or "Pop Pop" as she calls it and getting ready to watch Toy Story "Story" with Daddy. She is pretty much obsessed with the Toy Story movies and begs to watch them everyday.
Some days she gets he wish!!

Mommy's little helper

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Kai has definitely become my little helper!! She loves to help cook! Her she is making herself a bowl of uncooked oatmeal or ahmoat as she calls it.

By the way she also loves to dress herself. Isn't her outfit awesome. Nothing like pajamas mixed with a little dress and swim bottoms.

Yummy!

She loves to make messes but she also loves to help clean-up!

Sweeping!

Vacuuming!

She is way into changing her babies diapers right now. She is even obsessed with changing her own diapers which is really quite annoying because she throws a fit if she doesn't get to put the new diaper on herself. Which she of course can't really do! Got love two year-olds!

Emptying the dishwasher is one of her favorite things to do. Usually she hands me all the dishes and then I put them away. The utensils are all her and she does a pretty good job. I usually have to rearrange it a little bit.

She also loves to collect all the garbage for me each week

and then replaces the bag.

She is so awesome!!

She is definitely my little helper.

Too bad this need to help Mommy won't last till she is older and can do real chores.

Projects and Projects!

2011-02-26T21:43:00.001-05:00

When we first moved here we started to look for some new furniture. We knew we didn't want to buy anything really nice or expensive since we will be moving so much and having little kids I am sure they will all get destroyed.

We found this ugly thing on craigslist. I liked it mainly because it is small and doesn't take up a lot of room and

also because of this.
It turns around and has a mirror on the back which is awesome and a huge space saver.

Here it is now. So much better.

I am sure it won't last forever but for now it is great!!

Our friend who redid Kai's dresser gave us this extra wallpaper she had. It really helped to lighten the piece up!

I bought this table for Kai off of Craigslist and thought it was kind of boring.

So we sanded it down, which Kai loved to help out doing.

Then I painted it some fun bright colors and the top is the

Chalkboard Paint which as you can tell Kai has already tried out!

We teach the CTR 5 class and decided to do something fun for each of them for their Birthdays. So I made them each their own little CTR Cake. It was fun and I think they enjoyed them. Now I just have to make 6 more.

Friend time

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While in Utah over Christmas we were able to see a lot of dear friends. Wouldn't life be so much fun if we got to live close to all of our friends.

Kai and her cousin Kaleigh who is my cousin Megan's daughter.

I got to see a bunch of my close high school friends and this is the only picture I have to show for it but just to show you what they all looked like back in the day!


Back Row: Andee, Megann, Sarah, Me Front Row: Tiff, Monica, Karen, Megan, Jill

Speaking of all living by each other, in high school we all decided that we were all going to marry Seminary teachers and live in a Cul-de-Sac together! At least most of everyone besides Sarah and I live in Utah!

Enter the Mahoney Family, dear friends from Hawaii. Jeramy and I actually go way back to our UVSC days. They are so much fun and we miss playing with them!

The West's, Our first friends as a married couple.

They had just moved to Hawaii and we became instant friends.

Now they have two kids.

In fact all of our friends in Hawaii that had no kids when we all met now have two. We are lagging way behind, some are even working on three already!

We even got to see Sadie,Cory and of course Kai's favorite Isi and had lots of fun playing with him. My old roommate Chelsie was there this night too but of course I don't have any pictures.

Best of buds even after all the time apart and all the fights!!

Kailie and I got to see the Steele's while we were down in Vegas. Fun to see them and meet there new little boy. Man I miss the days of sitting on our surf boards enjoying the sun and waves together!

Kailie and Abby became quick friends again.

They even played dress up together!

And lets not forget our favorite Friend, the great Cafe Rio. We visited this one a lot and man I could sure use some of this friend right now!

The Best Activity in the Snow!

2011-02-26T14:00:00.001-05:00

Typical shot, men working on a snowmobile!

The Monday after Christmas we got invited up to a cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon in SLC to snowmobile and hang out for the day. I was in heaven!! Snowmobiling is what I did all growing up and I haven't gone for years. It took me a little while to warm up to getting the feel of driving them again but man I love it. So fun!

I don't think I have ever been snowmobiling with out one machine having some sort of problems and this trip was no different.

Christa and I hanging out while the men fixed the machine. Don't you love the full body snowsuits? They are the best for snowmobiling, no wind drafts!

Jared and I with Jared and Christa Maybe who invited us. They are such a fun family and we love spending time with them!

Kailie tackling her daddy!

Some of Jared's family came up for a few hours and got to do a little riding. None of them had ever been on a snowmobile before. I think they had a good time! This is Jason and one of his kids!

Cousins Kailie, Cam and S all playing in the snow together!

Rachel and Cole making the long trek back to the top of the hill!

I think we have a natural here. She looks ready to take off and drive herself.

Rachel, Nick and Cole getting ready to go for a ride!

Jaime, I and Cam heading out. Jaime was a champ at driving for the first time!

Jared, Kai and S heading out.

Nick and Cole

B choose to just hang out and play at the cabin. I was the one who drove him into the cabin on the snowmobile and after we arrived he says to me didn't you hear me yelling to slow down!! Here I was trying to drive a little bit faster to give them a fun ride!! Oops!

The Kaister came back from her ride wiped out. That is something I have done many a times in my life. It felt so good to get back out and snowmobile.

I am not sure what Jared thinks of it. When the snow is too deep of powder then the machines get stuck alot which makes for a lot of hard work. This day had quite a bit of fresh powder so it was alot of work. I loved it and can't wait to go again!!

New Years Eve

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New Year's Eve was spent hanging out with the Theler Clan!

Here Cam and McKayla are baking some cakes while Kai watches.

Then we all went bowling. I think it is safe to say that everyone had a good time.

Brennan helping Kai carry her ball.

Kai was all into bowling, she loved it and had a hard time waiting her turn!

Lexie sporting a huge smile after her turn!

Kai and Senea playing together as usual.

Anj and Sophie or Hopie as Kai calls her.

Getting ready to take a turn.

Marissa and her matching ball!

Kayla

The two Babies or should I say Babes hanging out!

I think Kai must have had a strike with that face.

Jaime and Jason doing the turkey ride after scoring three strikes in a row!!

Wohoo!!

Jared shows off his skills!

Joel the good daddy and Uncle.

Uncle James

Joel shows off his skills!

Later we all met up at Jack and Carolyn's to hang out, play games and ring in the new year!

Kai giving Lexie some love!

Sophie, I just love this photo. She is so cute!

Dance party, Lex showing Kai how to dance.

Cam and Kayla showing off their dance skills!

Aunt Marissa

Poor Grandma, if she had one she had to have the other one as well.

They would have it no other way!

Poor Kayla was not feeling so great!

Moving to the Big One!

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Photo taken from here

We have been so anxious ever since we moved here to find out where we would be going next. Originally we thought we would go to one of the big Army Medical Teaching Hospitals which are in D.C., Seattle, Hawaii and San Antonio. But then in September when Jared met the the guy in charge of all the placement he said all the big hospitals were full and that we would be going to a smaller hospital. So we have been patiently waiting for the list of the potential spots which we were supposed to get back in January which they then said it would be sent out in February so we have been going crazy waiting. There is just something about not knowing where you will be living in five months that is really unnerving. Then Jared goes to a conference where he runs into a graduating Chief Resident from D.C who tells him that she got the wish list a couple of weeks ago and has already been assigned to Fort Bragg in North Carolina which was one place we were hoping to go so of course Jared was way frustrated that the people who are below him in rank had already been assigned places and we hadn't even had a chance to put in our wish list.

We decided that either A) they forgot about us or B) they already had assigned us a place with out giving us a choice and well the correct answer was both. They already had assigned us without any choice and then they forgot to email us and tell us. You gotta love the Army. Anyways, we have been assigned to San Antonio, TX. Which was a huge shock. They have never had an Army fellowship trained doctor so we thought we would for sure not go there. We always seems to think wrong.

Jared is way excited because his best friend lives there and is also an Army Doc. I am on the fence. I don't really know anything about the place and I am kind of sad that I will once again be in place where there are no seasons. Summer is my favorite season but the reason I love summer so much is because it follows winter and that just makes it so much better.

Besides the weather I think I will like it there and I know we will make good friends and that the ward there is really great. So we are off again to another adventure.

Bringing back the Valentine

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Decorating Sugar cookies or mostly just eating the frosting!

Did anybody else think that Valentines Day was the best holiday as a kid?? I sure did, it definitely tied right up there with Christmas as my favorite. I loved making valentines for friends but my favorite thing was always making the box to collect all of my Valentines in. Of course as I grew Valentines became one of my least favorite holidays so this year with Kai being a little bit older I felt a little of the magic of Valentines I felt as a kid.

We go to play group every week at the church yea it isn't no Relief Society Surf Group but it is fun and we had a valentines party for the kids.

Kailie making her bag to collect her Valentines.

Checking out all the loot!!

Candy and more Candy!!

Kailie has become absolutely obsessed with Toy Story and pretty much begs to watch it everyday so I thought it only fitting to buy here Toy Story Valentines.

I decided last year that Valentines is the holiday that I will make sugar cookies.

Kai loved helping me!

Jared was gone all weekend so we made him some special Valentines cards. This was Kai's first time painting and before she started I painted her hand to make the hand print and then I let her go at it so of course the first thing she does is starts painting her hand. She is so cute but she eventually got the hang of it.

All of the Valentine activity tuckered this little one right out. I was making dinner and turned around to find her like this. I was freaking out because I already couldn't remember how much insulin I had given her, sometimes I just do it with out thinking and then cannot for the life of me recall how much or even if I actually gave her a shot at all. I instantly thought I had given her too much cause she was OUT and I couldn't get her to wake up. After testing her and realizing she was fine I figured she didn't take a nap that day because she wouldn't sleep and then I had given her a bath before dinner and put her in her jammies since she was a mess after painting so she probably just thought it was bed time. Poor thing. I let her sleep for an hour but then I had to wake her up to eat.

Snoring!!! I have never heard her snore really so she was tired!!

The Dreaded Layer!!

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The snow has finally started to melt here this week. Here is the layer that the birds attacked. Of course this is a month old so all the bright green spots are gone. Yes Bright Green, I have no idea why there would be bright green spots all over. They must have eaten something weird. Just thought I would show so you don't all think I am just going crazy here!!

If you click on the photo you can definitely get the full effect!!

Yesterday was gorgeous, sunny blue skies and mid-fifties. We haven't even really seen the forties so fifties was awesome. Kai and I went for a bike ride and then proceeded to play for a couple of hours outside in nothing but plain ole shirts. It was awesome and glorious and I was so excited to see the lawn and the driveway and see all the crappy snow melt and then we woke up and it was all just a dream. There was new snow and big blizzard going on outside!!

I almost got my wish of getting all the gross snow melted. Almost!!!

Winter Wonderland!

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I have always said that I love winter as long as there is snow. I hate when it is really cold but there is no snow, what is the fun in that! Well, I definitely have got my wish this winter.

In all my years growing up in Utah I NEVER once had a winter where there was snow on the ground the entire time and not just inches, I mean at least a foot usually more. I guess technically it all melted while we were in Utah but I didn't see it and when I got home there was just as much as when I left!

Since it starting snowing here back in the first week of December it literally hasn't stopped. Sure we have a day or two where it doesn't snow but then we get a foot overnight or so. It is pure craziness!!

The pile in front of our house has slowly been growing. Here it is tiny and yet back then it seemed like sooo big!

Here it is in January!! Our house is slowly getting hidden!

Here it is this week!!

Don't let the pretty white snow decieve you, really the snow is absolutely disgusting since it has been here for months. One day I left to the store and the back yard was looking all white and pretty and when I returned I found a bombed out completely covered backyard of bird crap. It was the weirdest thing both Jared and I have ever seen. It was all over and it was only in the backyard. Seriously a flock of Hundreds of birds must have flown over and all crapped at the same time. So now we can't play in the back or side because down a few layers of snow is bird pooh. So as much as I love having snow when it is cold I would love for this stuff to melt and then we can get all new clean stuff!

In other news. Our mail box got knocked off by the snow plow so we just plopped it in the snow until we could fix it

Then one day I found that someone fixed it. Come to find out the city did it since they broke it, of course this is just a temporary fix but seems pretty funny that they actually came out and did it with out us even telling them to!

Our Street!

We have had some pretty sunsets lately, this was yesterdays. It was so blasted cold outside that I was lazy and took the photos through the window and screen. The icicles here are crazy too. I have never seen icicle like the ones here. We can't even control them and I am sure most of the christmas lights on the roof will be broken by them!

Just in case you wondering what we do inside while it snows all day. Here is a preview!!

I think someone is dreaming of lazy hot summer swimming days!!

I wish I could say we gave it a good effort but

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We tried the pump for almost 24 hours and then we were done. Kailie just seemed really bothered by it, she whined all day that it hurt and both Jared and I were having mixed emotions about it so we decided to wait a for more months at least.

In case you were curious what the pump is here it is. It just attaches right to her skin. We think the main problem is she is so stinking skinny that she doesn't have enough fat to make it not hurt. Omni pod the pump company is supposedly coming out with a pump almost half the size of this one at the end of the year so we will probably wait for that.

This one just seems so big and was really noticeable. It wasn't too bad on her rump area but since she is still in diapers she gets pooh on it so we can't put it there, another reason why we will wait till she is older and potty trained.

As she was eating dinner the second day with it on she went to get out of her high chair and ripped it off on accident, it hurt pretty bad and that is when we decided to wait. The bummer thing is we didn't even get to really use it or try it because this one didn't have insulin in it. It was just a demo with saline in it. Oh well, we both have felt at peace since making the decision so I guess it is the right one.

Her baby has been getting shots with Kailie. It was her idea to give it to the baby too!

So back to shots it is but the good news is at least she will be free from having a machine attached to her for at least a few more months. I am going to soak it all in, I love her cute little body just the way it is without anything attached!

Theler Christmas

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Sunday we celebrated Christmas with all of the Theler family!

It is always fun and crazy when everyone gets together!

Kai with her aunt Jaime!

Playing with Joel and Anj!

I think she loves her Aunt!

Jason and Jaime just chilling

Not happy that Sophie tried to take her water!!

She definitely loves Nana!

Opening her present from cousin McKayla

The perfect present, a purse set.

She loved it right away and still plays with it all the time

In order to keep the purse on her shoulder she walks around with her arm in the air!

Opening a cute new outfit from Grandma and Grandpa

There is no photos of me because I was busy taking photos and playing with my new present a 50mm fixed lens. I love it but am still trying to figure out how to use it. Here is the perfect example of why the new lens is great. The above photo of James was taken with a flash and the below photo was not. It lets in so much more light that you can take photos in dim light and not have to use a flash! So awesome!

The new mom to be Marissa!

Glowing!

Cousins being silly!

Lexie and Kai played for hours with her new purse set!

Lex giving Kai a few make-up pointers!!

The whole evening was really nice and fun to just hang out and open some fun gifts. Jared gave me the greatest present. A book he made of our time in Hawaii. It was so great and took him A LONG time. I love it and need to take a picture of it! I got Jared the Virbam 5 finger running shoes, the ones that have the toes in them. He wants to run a marathon this year so I thought these would help him. This was our first time to spend Christmas with our families. It was really nice!

Christmas Eve and Christmas day!

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Christmas Eve was crazy for us. We woke up at 4 in the morning so we could drive two hours to Buffalo to catch our 8 am flight. By the time we got to Utah we were all exhausted and felt as though we had done the redeye. Man I thought those days were over.

We spent Christmas Eve at Jared's parents house. Here is Kailie and Papa Theler getting warm by the fire.

Later Joel and Anjuli and James and Marissa came by. Kailie had a blast playing with Lexi and Sophie.

Cuddle time with Aunt Anjuli

Reading books with Cousin Lexi

Grandma Carolyn got all the girls matching pajama's.

They are all so stinking cute!!

Playing with Aunt Marissa. Notice the PJ change. She got these from us to wear on Christmas Morning. Yea they are bit too small so she was showing some tummy!!

Christmas morning!

The classic Kailie with her stocking that she once not to long ago fit in. My how they grow so fast and so big!!

Not the best shot of me but the only family photo we have on Christmas day.

Posing with Grandma and Grandpa Theler.

We opened a few presents at the Theler's and then we headed down to my parents to spend the day!

Saying hi to Grammy! Almost wearing matching sweaters!

Kailie appointed herself to be the offcial deliverer of the presents. She sure knew what to do by this time since this was now her third day of opening presents.

One of Kai's favorite activities was pushing grammy to the bathroom and back. Such a big helper.

The button game. Any one who knew my dad growing up knows the button game. This was Kai's first time playing it and I think she is hooked!

My Aunt Judy and Uncle JR came down for Christmas Dinner and the weekend. It was fun to spend time with them. I love all of my aunts and uncles.

Christmas day was simple and all about spending time with Family. In the afternoon, we stopped over at a different Aunt and Uncles house and all there kids and grandkids were there, it was so fun to see them all. I miss seeing my cousins all the time. Growing up we were always together whether it was at family christmas parties, or summer bbq's or my favorite Lake Powell we were always all together. I miss those days!!

Sunday we went to church with my dad which is always fun to go back to my home ward and see everybody. Kailie got to wear her Christmas dress again!

Kai and Aunt Judy had matching outfits!

Christmas was really great this year. Just simple and all about family. Although I must say that both Jared and I really missed our Hawaii tradition of going to the beach on Christmas day!!

Growth Comparison

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		Kailie 3 weeks old- Dec 2008

Since we don't have a wall that we can chart Kai's growth on we just use random things like stockings and roller skating Santa's!

Kailie 2 years old, Christmas Day 2010

Christmas Eve 2008

Kailie Christmas Day 2009

Kailie Christmas 2010

Man, she is getting so big!!

Martin Luther weekend

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It has been a tough few weeks for us but we have managed to have some fun as well. This particular day we wanted to build a snowman but Jared said the snow wasn't good for building snowman and I was like "What, I have never seen snow that you can't build a snowman with" but now I can say that I have. You really can't build a snowman with this snow it just won't stick together. We did manage to make a two tiered snowball man!

The never ending shoveling of snow and all we shovel is this little porch area. It seriously snows everyday here. In fact, I need to shovel the porch again right now.
Good thing we rarely get visitors!

Kaile loves to help shovel the snow.

On Martin Luther Kind day we decided to go sledding and invited all of our friends to come. Well it ended up being only us since the temp was like 3 degrees everyone backed out. Turns out is was a prefect day to go sledding. The sun was shining and most importantly there was no wind. We were all warm even the Kaister and at times Jared and I were too warm!

We had a great time. Kailie spent the majority of her time just laying on the sled like this. It was hilarious, she didn't move or speak she just layed!!

This is kind of far away but totally funny!! I wish I would have gotten a closer one but my camera card got full and I was too lazy to erase stuff. So this is what we have!

We actually did so some sledding!! Here is the proof!

Bad Timing!!

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First of all I want to thank everyone for your nice, encouraging comments, they really helped me feel better.

Secondly, I must have the worst timing in the world with my blog posts. Last time that I wrote about the trials in my life in this post the very next day Kailie was diagnosed with Diabetes and I just wished more than anything that I could just go back to those trials before the diagnosis and how easy they seemed.

This time I write the previous post and then a few days later we find out that now Kailie might have Celiacs Disease on top of Diabetes. Seriously, I think I should just never write again about anything hard or bad in our lives. All I want now is just for her to only have Diabetes when before Diabetes seemed so overwhelming. Funny how things change so quick. As for the Celiac's we won't know anything for sure until April when they can do the test but we are praying for a miracle that she doesn't have it. It seems like we are drowning as is so that new disease might just push us under.

In other news in our diabetes journey. We started Kailie on a insulin pump today. I have been really excited the past few months to get her on the pump but today I have really mixed emotions about it. I realized this morning as I was bathing her that today was the last day that she will not have something attached to her body for probably the rest of her life and it just made me really sad. I know that the pump will help keep her blood sugars better regulated which will be super nice since lately her average has been in the 300 and she will be able to eat whatever she wants whenever which is awesome. But it is a big change and I don't do well with change so we will see how this goes. As of tonight I am not so excited about it.

Putting things into perspective!

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The past few weeks have not been the best for us here in the Theler household, we had a great time in Utah visiting family and friends but it was also hard for me. The past 6 months or so, I have become more isolated and instead of trying to plan fun things with friends I just go by myself or just stay home. We do still hang out with friends just not nearly as much as in Hawaii. Part of that is making new friends is harder but I realized while in Utah that part of it is because I have hard time being around everybody because most everyone I know has perfectly healthy children and when I am around them I am reminded how much Diabetes sucks and how care-free and easy life would be for all of us if we didn't have this disease. I know that I become very envious that their kids can not eat and be fine or just go to bed and the parents have no worries that they might not be alive in the morning.

Kailie's blood sugars were all over the place the last week in Utah actually we were in Vegas and it was hard, she was sick and I had no idea why she was going so low all day long and then the next day she was high high high, then I got sick again and was throwing-up but I still had to take care of Kai. Sure my cousins could help change her and give here baths and even feed her but I had to check her and give her insulin and get up in the middle of the night and wake up early when she did. I just started to become very angry, most of my anger was towards God. Just questioning why she was given this disease and at such a young age. I can't help but feel sometimes that we got gipped. We barely got to enjoy Kailie for 16 months and now our focus is on blood sugar and insulin. Instead of talking about the cute things she did or the new word she learned we discuss her numbers. Night time is the hardest for both Jared and I, that is when we get the most sad and angry. My last night in Utah, Kailie was low when I checked her at 10 pm so I had to wake her up and give her something to eat but of course she didn't want to eat. She has actually gotten pretty good at eating in the middle of the night but this night she wasn't having it and wouldn't eat anything, not fruitsnacks, cookies, ice cream, yogurt, choc, smarties, milk, you name it she wouldn't have it. I called Jared who was in New York just because I didn't know what to do and an hour later I finally had to force down her throat some cake gel frosting. Pour thing was screaming and so mad and tired. Then I finally get to sleep and wake up a few hours later to check and sure enough she skyrocketed, I must have given her more than I thought, so I had to give her a shot. And boy was I mad!!! Not at Kailie, I am never mad at her! I was tired, I knew we both had to get up early and fly back to NY and I just didn't understand why she went so high. Needless to say the flight was not the best but we made it and as we were driving the two hours back to Syracuse Jared and I started talking about how we were both angry last night at God and that we needed to get these issues worked out soon before Kailie is old enough to understand.

The next day was tough, I was super emotional all day and just not happy. This whole week I have been thinking about how crappy this is and how I wish there was a way to heal her. Last night after talking about it all with Jared I realized I need to be grateful for the things I do have and not focus on the bad things. Did I mention that we are also trying to have another baby and have been trying for over a year now, so that just adds to all my frustrations and stress.

This evening everything was put into perspective when we were able to talk with some friends from Hawaii who have a daughter that has recently been diagnosed with a horrible Kidney Failure disease. A disease that is a lot harder than diabetes. After, I just had this overwhelming gratitude that Kailie didn't have a disease like that. As much as diabetes sucks, you can still do most anything, go anywhere and our friends won't have that. As tough as our situation is there is always someone who has it harder and that is a reminder that I needed. Sure I wish Kai was healthy of course but I am so happy to have her in my life. I would take a Kailie with Diabetes over no Kailie any day!!

Now I just need to keep things in perspective and be grateful for what I do have which is a lot. Mostly, I am really grateful for Jared, he is a great dad and a wonderful husband and there is no way I could do this with out him!

Christmas/ New Years Card!

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Jan l. 2011

Dear Family and Friends,

Well another year has come and gone and again we figured we would prolong the Christmas spirit
and send out our Cards after the New Year.

2010 was definitely a year of opposites for our family. We started out the year living in beautiful
Hawaii. Enjoying the sunshine and great weather. Jared was extremely busy being the Chief Resident
and Bishop at the same time. I was busy serving in the Young Womens, teaching Pilates and of
course taking care of Kailie.

In April our world got turned upside down when little Kailie who was 16 months old at the time was
diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It has been a huge adjustment for us all, especially Jared and I. Kailie
has taken it in stride and doesn't seemed to be too bothered by the pricks or the insulin shots.

In June we said goodbye to our first home Hawaii and all of our dear friends and moved across the
nation to Syracuse, New York. Syracuse has been completely opposite of Hawaii especially
experiencing fall and winter for the first time in 5 years and boy is it cold!!

Jared pretty much sets his own hours at work and has enjoyed the time he has to learn and study. He
is loving the fellowship he is doing in cranial facial reconstruction and is trying to soak in as much
knowledge and experience he can get in this fellowship year. As far as church goes he got the calling
he was hoping for; we team teach the CTR 4 class and he loves it. After being Bishop all he wanted
to do was be in the primary.

I spend my days hanging out with the Kaister. We have fun just playing at home or going to the park,
meeting up with friends. New York has been an adjustment for me and I spend a lot more time at
home than I did in Hawaii. I loved the fall time here, the east truly does have amazing leaves and I
am really enjoying visiting the big cities. As much as I love the outdoors I think I was born to live in
a big city.

Kailie just turned 2 this past November and is definitely a full on toddler equipped with tantrums and
everything else associated with the terribly two's but mostly she is an incredibly loving, kind kid who
loves to laugh and play and is very mischievous. She is not afraid of anyone and loves to be around
people. We are-grateful that she is so easy-going because diabetes brings a lot of added stress and
things to worry about and do everyday. Her sweet spirit just makes it that much easier to handle.

We miss Hawaii and all of our friends terribly but have enjoyed meeting new people and visiting
some of the great sights in the East such as: Niagara Falls, Boston, New York City and Palmyra. We
cannot believe that our time in NY is half way over and are nervous/excited to find out where our
new home will be this July.

We are happy to put 2010 behind us and are grateful for the many people who have helped us
through out this year. We are especially grateful for our knowledge of the Savior and the plan and
Salvation and that someday Kailie will be healed of her illness.

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and have a very Happy and Healthy 2011.

Love,
The Theler's
Jared, Gina and Kailie

Christmas Eve Eve

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We had 4 Christmas's this year. At least that is what it felt like it so here is the first of our Christmas posts.

Kailie amazingly sitting very nicely next to a Chocolate Nativity. This is one thing we give to our friends and neighbors for Christmas along with some yummy dried pineapple which of course everybody thought we brought back from Hawaii. Ironically, I actually started the tradition of drying pineapple long before I ever lived in Hawaii! Just so we are clear, they do sell Pineapple here in Syracuse!

Back to the Nativity, Kailie kept stealing the chocolate treats as I would make them, and one time she got a hold of the container holding them and we literally had a tug of war over it, before I could get it from her she grabbed a a Baby Jesus and threw it in her mouth. Little stinker, she was so in trouble!! So now you know why I was amazed that I could get this photo with out her eating the whole thing.

Since we were flying to Utah on Christmas Eve we decided to open some presents here so we didn't have to pack them there and back.

Getting ready to open presents!

Books, books and more books. You gotta love Target's dollar area!

Opening a gift from Daddy!

I was so excited for Jared to open this present. I always try to make him at least one present and this was it this year. He has been missing Surfing pretty bad so I made him a poster to hang up in his office with a bunch of photos of him surfing. Yes there is two because the first one was darker than I wanted so I redid it and then I realized that the second one had a typo, oh well I guess I will just have to do a third one.

Kailie opening a gift!!

As a reminder to myself, don't travel for Christmas, just stay home have Christmas and then go visit family. It is to crazy to travel and worry about gifts!!

Christmas in New York!

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Well we have shown our time in NYC and visiting the Dicken's festival but what is Christmas like in Syracuse? Well seeing as I have literally spent most of December hiding out in my house since it has been snowing so much, we really haven't done much. I have never in my life been home so much, it is kind of weird but I guess that is life when you have little kids and it is freezing outside!!

The few times I have ventured out we have done some fun stuff.

Visiting Santa.
This time she cried for about 5 minutes and then Santa bribed her with a candy cane and jingle bells. It worked long enough to get a photo!

The pathway that I love to workout on in the summer is transformed during Christmas into Lights on the Lake so we finally made it there. The nativity scene which ironically enough was right next the Hanaka lights.

Family Portrait!

Entering the Crazy Land of Oz. When did The Wizard of OZ become a Christmas thing anyways?

Halfway through we let Kai out of her car seat which literally is a little piece of heaven for her to get to play in the car. She was just like my dogs and kept her head out of the window most of the drive.

I didn't really expect her to be that into it but she sure was!!

She loved it!

These lights made us just a little bit homesick for Hawaii!! Especially this video!! I can't believe I miss golfing so much!!

Sunday evening we decided to do a Christmas Party with some friends from church. Basically all the other residents in the ward. We had Gigantic Bread Bowls with a side of soup. Definitely one thing I love about the cold weather.

The kids being crazy!

Kailie joining the fun!

Some of the other highlights this holiday season was a cookie exchange with a bunch of the women from church. Everyone brought 6 dozen of a favorite holiday treat and then everyone took a few of each. We were supposed to then give to neighbors. Then we did an ornament exchange which was so fun. Mostly it was just fun to get out of the house and associate with others who are taller than 2 feet.

Two-Year-Old For Sale

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I have a Two-Year-Old for Sale:

She comes equipped with temper-tantrums, a very loud though not as loud as some voice box, never-ending batteries, the ability to get into any and everything no matter how high or where you hide it. She is programmed to disobey every command and thinks time-out is a game. She was built with a very mischievous side and is only quiet while getting into something she knows she's not supposed to. Her clothing preference is none and

Her favorite activities include running away from mommy (although in all fairness I probably would run to if someone kept sticking me with needles all day), climbing on to the counter, eating the gingerbread house, making messes, whining, fake crying and always finding some sort of treat to eat. She will even fight for the right to eat a chocolate baby Jesus and loves to run straight to her hide out corner anytime we ask her to come to us!!

Will take any reasonable offers!