Karsten's 2nd haircut , 8 months

Before...

During (Daddy did the cutting, Mommy did the entertaining)...




After! Good job Dad!

Family fun

Look at the BIG boy! This is at 8 months old, not yet crawling.

Karsten loves reading books!

Ah, cuddles with the furry book!



He loves to turn the pages all by himself! He's about 8 months here.

Mini Vacation

In September some friends of ours, Matt and Amy Bradley, invited us up to Amy's parents gorgeous cabin, in Big Bear, which the had recently built. It was a lot of fun and relaxing!

It's been way too long!

I LOVE those lips!!!

Karsten gets really excited when someone is following him!


pre second haircut.

He loves these knobs! He uses his feet to grab things, it's amazing, I call him monkey.

playing on the floor
We don't really have any recent sleeping pics, so daddy took one, cute boy!

Bath time fun! He loves bath time!


Well I haven't posted anything in a while and the longer I went the harder it was to post anything! We just bought a house and have been painting there and packing here, all the while Chris has been out of town for the greater part of the last 6 weeks working. We joined Youth staff at our church, and all of this started happening at around the same time, so needless to say we've been busy! Since I am doing this whole blog mainly to print into a book at the end of the year, I figure it's not going to become any less busy with the holidays coming, moving in to our new house, and many other things coming up in our calender so I'd better update now and try to be as consistent as possible with this in the midst of busyness! I'm leaving a lot out but here's what I have...