Saturday, December 31, 2011

Christmas Day '11

At about 5:45 in the morning, Freddy rolled over and nudged me. "Let get the kids up, babe!" My husband loves his Christmas mornings. Having kids of the perfect age just enhances his excitement that much more. Needless to say, we had no problem getting them up and they had a great morning.
I had to sing for our Stakes Christmas program that day so we actually had to et everyone ready in a hurry.
It's the Kuhn's year for Christmas day so we had a nice party at Kati and Todd's house in Lake Elsinore.
An incredibly busy day, but what it's all about.

Know wasn't as up to the early morning :)



Brooklyn's favorite girly pose.

Plethora of cars


Morning chaos

Church ready

At Kati's and Todd's 

Nativity gear

Mary

Freddy was the ass.

Tre was Joesph

Harold angels

And sweet baby Jesus with a pouty lip... Merry Christmas all!

Friday, December 30, 2011

Christmas Eve Lovin'

We had my parents and in-laws over to enjoy our Christmas Eve with us this year. As much as I'm a little sad we don't get snow, you sure can't beat the San Clemente Christmas sunsets! It was a great night of food, story telling and gift giving. I'm going to have to milk these next few years of all my babies being the perfect Christmas ages!

Freddy's sister Heidi and her husband and daughter were able to come and join us from Texas. :)
Taking advantage of the camera while out. 


Really, this is the only reason we invite my dad.  They leave me alone for a while... ;)

My mom's enjoying having a grand daughter to buy girlie things for.

These are real clubs from my dad! Awesome! 

Knox is so easy. Just need some cars to make him happy.

Annual Christmas Eve PJ's. Vadar for the boys and Snow White for our princess.

My dad reading about the Christmas story. I really just love Knox in this shot.








Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Fun!

I wish I could say I was in full Christmas spirit whilst baking and making goody boxes for our neighbors this year, but I am major preggo and overly tired and over heated at this point. But I've kept in mind that it's not about me right now and these are important times to teach the kids about giving and thinking of others. So we spent a day making homemade sugar cookies, with fudge and rice crispy treats. I will have no one to blame but myself if I have a 10 pound baby...
We then met up with our Nemrow friends for a night of light house looking! Freddy remembered when he was living in Chino Hills that there was one neighbor in Chino that had rows of "Clark Griswald" homes with amazing displays of Christmas awesomeness on their lawns and roofs! Really amazing! I wish I would have gotten more pictures of the houses, but the flash kind of took away the splendor of it.  It was also ridiculously windy and cold, but the kids didn't seem to mind. But we met up at Starbucks for Salted Carmel hot chocolates afterwards and all was well.
We love Christmas time!! Sad it's almost over...




House looking...


With best buds Garrett and Makenzie.




This really made me laugh. This is so me or something I would do to escape the pressures of having to do up my house! Kudos to this guy.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

School Pictures '11

This is Tre's Kindergarten picture from school. I wanted one of Brooklyn and Knox as well, so I just did them myself...


Monday, December 19, 2011

Bills/Chargers Game '11

The last time we went to a Bills/Chargers game, I was 8 months pregnant with Tre! Now here he is almost 6 years later, enjoying a game with his cousin Thor. Not the best game for the Bills, but a good time for everybody. :)
They used washable markers... thank heavens.






Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The "Knee"cracker...

Let's see... where do I begin with this nightmare of a day??
So this is Brooklyn's first show on stage. She'd been preparing for this for the last few weeks and to be honest, with this pregnancy, I just wanted to get to the end of it with so much involved. I planned on her show day to be a very long one being that she would be doing a matinee show and an evening show way past her bedtime. Wow, did I get way more than I asked for...
As we were crossing the street to the theater, I stepped off the curb and my leg gave out on me and I twisted my body fast enough to not land of the baby. Thankfully (though completely embarrassing) there were about 10 other people crossing to the show as well and they all managed to get me back on the sidewalk. I was in such shock, I wasn't sure what was in pain. The top of my right foot was in pain with a bloody knee, and I noticed the left top of my knee was sticking out and also in a great amount of pain. Not to mention I had a few contractions starting up. I'm sure everybody was just as freaked out as I was. I tried to calm myself for the sake of Brooklyn and started asking some parents to get her to her dressing room so she didn't have to see what was going on. People at the concession stand were fast to come over with ice and an ice chest for me to sit on so I wasn't on the ground. They asked if I wanted an ambulance but being the realist I am, I knew we couldn't afford that. All I could do was call Freddy and tell him to get to me quick. He was on his way anyway with Tre for the matinee show. Luckily, they had a paramedic there that was able to analize if I had a break or not. Thankfully, there wasn't. Freddy finally made it to me and we rushed to the ER in Irvine.
I hate ER's. They took about an hour for me to get in and took people over me. Um... hey ER people... I'm 35 weeks pregnant and in crazy pain! Help me out! When they did get me in (about an hour after we arrived), they didn't even really assess me, they just got some quick X-rays and told me what I already knew... no breaks. They were then just going to let me go. "That's it?" I asked. No checking the baby... no wrapping the leg... no pain killers... no crutches?? I can't even walk! "Oh... yeah. We can do that. Oh, and you should go up to the OB and have them monitor your baby for about 4 hours." This made Freddy, and me, so angry. "Don't you think if there was a problem with the baby they should have checked her in the second we got here??" he asked.
The OB was actually way more accomodating and tried to get me in and out as fast as they could. I was determined to get back to Brooklyn's nighttime show, drugged or not. I kept having emotional breakdowns thinking of if she was doing ok. Turned out the baby was fine. I was still experiencing a few minor contractions, but nothing too serious. I forgot to mention Tre was with us for most of the day at the ER (Knox was being babysat) and he was the sweetest support to have there, other than my amazing husband of course. My parents were luckily going to her evening show and were able to pick Tre up on their way. Thank you mom and dad!!
When we got to the show, it had already started but I asked Freddy to drop me off by the backstage door so Brooklyn would see that I got there. I told him to come get me after he parked the car. Well, she was already on stage and I must have missed Freddy when he came by to get me. He thought I decided to just stay back there with Brooklyn. So as I was walking with my lovely baby belly on crutches on my way to the front of the theater, my left leg cracked! And it totally freaked me out! Like I had been hit with a rock or something. Just turned out my knee went back into place and it actually took the edge off of all the pain I was having. Get's better. There's stairs in the front of the theater and no one in site. I figured at some point Freddy would think to come out and look to see so I sat at the bottom of the stairs in about 40 degree weather. (To be fair, the cold air actually felt really nice with all of the flustering going on.) A half hour later, intermission, Freddy finally comes out and both of us pulled the "Where were you... no, where were you" game back and forth, but quickly laughed it off. I was more worried about him getting in and helping out with Tre. So he carried me to my seat and we sat and enjoyed what was left of the show.
I'm happy to say, Brooklyn stole the show and did her momma proud. It was worth all the struggle of the day to see her sweet face light up that stage. And she totally killed it. My girl.
Any hard core "I Love Lucy" fans like me out there? This was an undeniable perfect plot line for that show. But I'm happy to say I'm walking without my crutches and doing fine and the baby is as well. I'll be back to my normal, uncomfortable pregnant self in no time. Just glad it's all over and we can go on with our crazy holiday already!!
A huge thank you to everyone at the show who rushed to my side and helped Brooklyn get ready for her first show. And, of course, all my love to my husband who kept me sane that entire day! I'm sorry if I took out your back with all the lifting. :(

Brooklyn in front of the theater literally 30 seconds before the ordeal. 

The lovely ER. Me having a breakdown. Both from pain and worrying about my sweet Brooklyn. The only reason we got this picture is because I asked Freddy to check my camera for any damages from the fall. Lovely. 

Before getting wrapped. Can you tell I'm on pain killers at this point?

Brooklyn backstage with her friend.


Her on the very end, right.

Flying in the middle.
Thanks for being wonderful Brooklyn. I'm sorry mommy is so clumsy. :(