A Full New Home!

After Thanksgiving day, Aaron and I headed up to the Temecula Area to visit some of the girls from APU. Sara had brought Isabella down from Canada, and the day we arrived, so did her husband Matt. We had such a good time with everyone! Matt and Aaron took off one day, to hang at a local brewery (Aaron is brewing his own beer, and take a great interest in how other places do all that stuff) and Shauna, Sara, Isabella and I took to a little pre-Christmas shopping! Spending time with each other was so wonderful, and continues to remind of us of why we are all friends, and have stayed friends almost 5 years after college graduation.

The other reason we took a detour up to the Temecula area was becuse Shauna had just bought a new house!!! How exciting!! She has worked so hard these past 5 years and it has finally paid off. She is now the owner of a beautiful two story- four bedroom- two & a half bath- home, and has it fully outfitted!!! What a joy it was to get to share in the new step of her life, and her totally blessed home!

Muah, Muah- Kristin

Day Four Already?

Today was a full day...
We started fairly early this AM...8:11 to be exact. Because we are so far north in the hemisphere the sun stays up late and comes up early, we are darking dark hours between 10 pm and 4 am, and I am not joking. I have woken up every morning so far at 4 to pull down the shade so we can get a couple extra hours of ZZZZZ's. We have been up and out till almost 10 because until about 9 it feels like it is 5 in the afternoon (no, not "nine in the afternoon, your eyes are the size of the moon")!
...Ok so back to what I was saying...the day started early. Aaron took a 2.5 mile run while I dove in to my latest read: The Shack (so far so good- Chapter 5). Around 10 Aaron and I borrowed Matt and Sara's Mountain bikes and headed out for a nice ride in the "country". It totally felt like we were in Europe, touring the countryside on our bikes!

We got home a little before noon, just in time to have a nice lunch with Matt (who had to work today) and then off to walk the Downtown area with Sara and the baby.












While we were on our nice little walk we saw our first and informedly "only" Canadian Mounty encounter....on the side of a van! I guess there is really no such thing as the ture Mounty anymore.

Next we took in a nice steak dinner...thank you matt, and then headed for the beach...at 7:30 pm! It is still warm until the sun goes down, so we had to make the most of our day!












The day ended with a bath for bella, and now we are all off to bed! See you tomorrow!

Day Two in Canada!

Day two found us all on a boat..."I'm on a booooaaattt!" We tried (and by we I mean Aaron and Matt and Clayton) a new Canadian water sport called Wake Surfing. Basically the idea is to take the toe rope out enough to get some speed (and if you are good you can just launch off the back of the boat) and then throw it back in and surf the wake behind the boat...you can technically surf it for quite a while. All the guys got up on the first try (...well Matt and Clayton are seasoned riders, but for the sake of the statement...). We had such a blast and a nice boat ride on the Okanagan (gosh hope I spelled that right...).

Turns out Matt is not only a seasoned wake surfer, but also a seasoned mucian (three bands and counting; one with a three time tour of all the Candian provinces). We set out in the evening to watch him play at...Church! haha! Really good service and little Isabella was, of course, the center of attention cooing like a little terridactile! haha! Pretty funny.
All in all a really great day two...
Bella in her new Le Top bathing suit- butterfly wishes












Bella blending in to the furniture...












Us on the Boat

Day one in Canada!

We made it to the Lunde's almost on time... The day started out early, leaving the house at quarter after seven and we finally made it to the Lunde's avout 4:45...two flights, and one MAD dash through the Vancouver Airport, landed us here safe and out of breath!
Isabella is getting so big, and mom and dad are so proud of her...as re we! The chicky is a night owl like her mommy, she was up with us till about 11:00! WOW!
Here are som pictures from Friday.

Aaron drinking after our first flight is delayed out of SFO.









Trying out the smile detector on our new camera.

Sleeping Beauties

I am getting so excited for our trip up to see Sara, Matt and the new baby, Isabella! It's all I can think about and talk about. If you have been able to hang out with me lately you would know that! I think some of you must be getting sick of hearing me talk about "Canada"!

Seeing pictures like this one are sure to push me over the edge! This is just the sweetest thing I have ever seen! There is nothing like a good nap along side the your most adored person....and for Sara napping is HUGE! This girl LOVES her sleep, it looks like her daughter is taking after her! LOL!

Check out Sara and Isabella on the Le Top Blog under Daily Darlings: http://blog.letop-usa.com

Oh, Sara, Sara, Sara!

Ok , so we all know Sara has two passions in life....reading and now baby Isabella...if you have already guessed where this is going, you are super in tune! hahaha! But if you haven't let me continue on....

Today my coworker comes in and was commenting on the Daily Darling Posts of Isabella Marie and then she calls me..."Hey Kristin, isn't the main character in the Twilight series named, 'Isabella Marie'?" Of course I wasn't sure so I Googled it! Well, well, well, what do you know her name IS Isabella Marie. Now you all know that Sara has in deed read ALL of the Twilight books, and probably in about three days time, and then she was having a baby girl and then her mom's middle names were Isabel and Marie So I am sure she was like "Sweet I can name my daughter after the book and everyone will just think that I named her after my mom and M-I-L!- No one will ever know!" Well Sara you have just been found out....but it IS a cute name never the less!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Peace Out!

Kristin

The Girls are in Canada and I am jealous!!

*Because I have received threatening voicemails from the the participants in these pictures, there identities have now been "removed"!- SO THERE. Now please keep sending me pictures of Isabella!!!!! 

Shauna and Heather are in Canada with Sara, Matt and baby Isa and I am jealous! I have no idea how I am going to wait two whole months to see this prescious child! I am itching to get my hands are her and watch her coo all day long...and of course say hi to sara and matt on my way to the baby! hahaha! She just looks so scerene, and calm and perfect. I even think she has red hair. The girls have promised to keep me updated everyday with pictures and matt is lathargically posting his new pictures every few days, so I guess that will help keep me contented.
I guess my real contintement will be hanging around with Erin T's little one, Emma. Which of course I don't mind at all. Emma and I had some face time last night. We laughed and smiled at each other it was wonderful. She is such a good baby and she too has some hints of red in her pelo. So it looks like we may have some more crazy red heads running around, two girls after my own heart....and hair. Stay tuned for more of my baby envy.

Peace out - Kristin

ANOTHER BABY HAS ARRIVED!!!!

Well it's been a long time since I have posted on here, and for those of you who are still sticking with me I am so sorry! Things have been crazy!

The last posting was on the delivery of Erin T.'s baby girl Emma Grace. And I am proud to announce to you that this posting is on the delivery of another precious girl very close to our hearts!!

Sara L. had Isabella Marie at 12:50 am this morning! Weighing in at 7lbs 1oz and 20.5 inches long! Everyone is doing great, daddy says (...to me at 2 am this morning- whew!).
Daddy Matt is a Super Fantastic Photographer so I will have some more Super Fantastic Pictures up just as soon as I get a hold of them!!

This is the last of the babies for a while. Joslyn is expecting a girl in mid June and Rachael is expecting a baby in October...So more to come on those great new lives!

Love

Kristin

And then there was ONE....

So! Sara went to her ultrasound today and it turns out that she probably just has a really large uterus that is like an echo chamber, because there is only one baby in that belly! And guess what she is having (well like 90% sure, you can only be 100% when it...SHE comes out) That's right "it" is now a "GIRL!" I immediately suggested she call her "Kristin" because it is such a great name for a girl, I mean who wouldn't want to name their girl "Kristin"! hahahahah! Shauna said that wasn't going to happen because for sure she was going to name her "poopy butt" (of course that is my nick name too, and Shauna's and for that matter, all the girls- it's kind of our pet name for each other- long story).

So anyway here is the pictures from the ultrasound. I sure won't be writing tomorrow becuause the state will be paying me money from the non existent funds that they have, to work the polls tomorrow night. It is actually quite fun, I will try to remember to tell you "all about it"- we usually get at least one "character". So once again here are Sara's ultrasound pictures- I swear she already has Sara's mouth!




Poop Out- Poops!