Christmas 2010

Christmas day this year was with my side of the family (all but my brother and his family in Arizona.) Lots of people under one roof!!

Which then led to lots of presents...

Nerf gun wars...
and Wii playing action.

It was a great weekend and now to celebrate with Brian's family this weekend.

My Dad

This is my dad, David Joe, the man my son, Carson David, is now named after.

I am so excited.

Here are some of my favorite memories growing up that I would love to share with you.

I remember waking up in the mornings and heading out to the garage. I was such a tomboy. My dad would be waiting for me and we would start on some project. Somehow, it always seemed the garage needed cleaning, no matter that we had just cleaned it the week before.

We would run errands together to get more wood for a house project. Appropriately, there would be room for me in the vehicle on the way to the store, but never room for me on the way home. I would also have to hang on to the wood to make sure it would not fall out.

I remember my 21st birthday card. My mom always sent us a card for our birthdays, but this one was different. Before, the card would always be closed with "Love, mom and dad." On my 21st birthday card it was closed with: "Love, mom." "Love you more, Dad." Written in his handwriting. I will never forget it, thanks dad.

Little Brother

Just a couple of shots of big sister and little brother!!!

Carson David

He is wonderful, healthy, and quite!!! Nursery said he is the best baby in there as he is so quite while everyone one else is screaming.

Born at 9:52p.m. on 12/13/2010
7 pounds 14 ounces and 21 1/2 inches long!!

Not the best pictures, these were taken with the phone. Will get the pictures from the camera downloaded so they are better but many people have been asking to see him so thought I would post something.


Everyone is doing well and we should be discharged around 11a.m. tomorrow if it continues to go well:)

Man I love this guy!!!

Calm before the Storm

I decided before little brother comes (and we are stuck inside for awhile), that Kaylee and I needed an outing. We headed to the Science Museum for some hands on learning and we had so much fun.

Some serious investigating going on here:

This was her favorite part. Looking at all the cars whizzing by below her.

I love our "one on one" time and I love how adventerous she is. It was a fun day and I look forward to more with just her and with Carson David!!!

Advent

Last year I only did a few Advent activities as she was only a year old. This year, I am trying to do atleast three to four activities a week. Some are very small, some may be pretty silly, but they all lead back to one thing....Jesus.

The list of activities is more for my memory for years to come, but also if you are looking for ideas, please steal away.

In no particular order:

-Set up nativity set and Christmas tree

-sit outside for a little while - Joseph and Mary where outside when they had baby Jesus

-M & M - Messiah in a Manger

- Eat by candlelight - just like Joseph and Mary had no electricity

- new Christmas socks or slipper - go and tell of Jesus love for us

- playdough - Jesus molds us

-attend our Church's Dessert theatre

-attend Journey to Bethlehem - at Harvester Christian Church

-go and buy gifts for angel tree mission (or an other ministry) as a family

-special meal out

-look at Christmas lights - Jesus is the light of the World

-bottle shaped sucker - Jesus came into the workd as a baby

-binoculars - Shepherds "watched" their sheep at night

-left over dinner - Joseph and Mary had to stay in the stable which was the only place "leftover."

-fun bath soap - Jesus washes us "white as snow."

-milkshakes - God "shook up" the people's thinking by sending his Son the way he did

-Family Christmas pictures - seeing how God has changed our family from year to year.

That is all I can remember at this time. We may not get to all of them, especially if baby Carson decides to come early (please come early!!!). Kaylee has truly enjoyed doing activities even though she still doesn't get all of it. She does go around the house singing "1,2,3, Jesus loves me!!!" She also talks a lot about Joseph and Mary and baby Jesus so she is starting to understand some of it.

Ice Skating and Carriage Ride

I love to experience "firsts" with Kaylee. We have been thinking it would be fun to take her ice skating, but also knew it was pretty early for it and we didn't really want to pay for her to possibly make one lap and say she was done.

When a friend of ours mentioned that Clayton was having a free night of ice skating among other things, we decided to jump on it. Of course, Kaylee was excited and very curious. It was pretty busy so hard to get any good pictures.




She made it one lap around and then they announced that it was time to resurface the ice. That was ok, Kaylee was done. She decided it was too cold and slippery. She said she did not like it but five minutes later, that was all she was talking about. I think in another year or two she will try again and love it.

After skating, we headed to where they were doing free carriage rides. We caught the last ride that they were offering and it was very cold!! It was a lot of fun and Kaylee loved seeing the horses.

Overall, it was a great evening hanging out with friends (which I need to get better at taking pictures with them) and some more "firsts" for Kaylee.

A long time

I feel like I am not posting as much right now and when I do it is updates on the past week or so. I need to get better at keeping up to date with the blog.

Well, here is another update:)

We have been pretty busy around here and I don't have as much info to share with you yet but still hoping too soon. One thing that has been happening in the Katerberg household I can update you on though, but I must warn you that you may not want to read about it.

We had a little health issue with Kaylee lately. I thought at first, she just ate something that did not agree with her but then it lasted WAY too long. A few weeks ago, she started having diarrhea (in the amount of 8 diapers a day!!) It was nasty and did not smell good at all. Long story short, they ran stool tests, blood tests, and this week (after dealing with it for 3 weeks) we saw a GI specialist. After a long wait, all tests came back great. She just irritated her small bowel with an upper respiratory infection she had shortly before all of this started. The bad news is though, it could last another couple of months:( Good news is, it is down to only one to two diapers a day now. (more than you wanted, I am sure).

Other news, I am going to be 37 weeks along in the pregnancy on saturday. I am more than ready for Carson to make his appearance. I have not felt the greatest today and am really exhausted. We have our hospital bag packed and I told Brian to keep his phone on him today as I actually thought it might have been the day, but no go. Good news is though, my doctor said that since I have not developed the cholestasis at this point, that I most likely will not develop it!!! That is great news, but now I am actually nervous of having a normal pregnancy. I was not prepared for that at all since I was assuming I would be induced next week because of complications.

We have also been hard at work with Advent activities around here. I will blog later to let you know what we have already done and what is coming up in case you need some ideas, plus then I will have them for next year to remind me of what we did. I don't think Kaylee totally understands the Advent part, but I think she is understanding some of what Christmas is all about and that it does not mean lots of presents. She is so excited to go look at Christmas lights too. Brian is going to take us to one of the light shows that play to music. I know she will love that.