Monday, December 12, 2011

Just for You Ambs!



Since Amber thought it would be a good idea to move a trillion miles away, and out of my love for her I am doing an update! I don't blog much because, well...we are not that exciting. But, to be honest I am really enjoying and feel really lucky to have our routined, non-eventful, pretty ordinary life. Here are some of the highlights of the last few months: (the order got messed up and I am WAY too lazy to try and fix it so Amber, you'll just have to pretend they go from oldest to newest by date)

Halloween-Charlie Brown

our overnighter!!! :)
a look into my future! Scary, right!?
(he is still ALWAYS driving!!) Better be careful
Amber or kara-this could be the kid driving one of
your daughters around!! he he he!
Uncle Robs graduation-but mostly cause I thought it was cute
(yep I'm just that lame, but at least I fessed up to it)
Cause these are just too funny! (Its funny because
its a dog wearing a tie, get it? he looks like a person!)
AND he shakes, come on!! its freaking funny right?
well, whatever, this is what we do around here! I told
you we were not that exciting! but hey we laugh a lot!! :)
cutting down "Missmiss" trees as Hayden
and his little lisp says it!!
Sorry-all the ones of the 3 of us were kind of
awkward looking, so I opted for one with my parents
instead! it's my blog I can do what I want!
here is a tip though, rain boots don't actually work
as snow boots! Wish I knew that before. His feet got
real cold! whoops!
After trick or treating, headed to bed!
The trick or Treating gang!! He was so excited
to go with the big kids. They made a freaking haul!
Hayden got like 3 full size candy bars! It was his first time
really trick or treating. last year he had NO interest. So I don't think
he really knew what to expect. I think
he was pleasantly surprised. (not that I would really know,
Steve and Chris took them to meet up with some other
neighbors-I stayed home to help Wendy "pass out candy"
shhh-really I sat and sipped
a diet coke because we got like 3
trick or treaters) He got
so much candy, which worked out because he ate like
one piece and Steve and I got to pretty much eat the rest!
I'm a minion-thats funny hu! Hayden thought so.
Im starting to wonder if only Hayden and I think
we are funny... Sometimes Steve laughs but I am not sure
if it's because he really thinks it's funny or if he is
a little embarrassed. Im pretty sure it's mostly
because he thinks we are funny though!

Picture day at school
I was too cheap to pay for them though
so this is all you get! (I know, I am lame
but come on! they wanted like $50 for
like 3 pictures-I am just getting so cheap
in my old age!)
First Day of school!!
He loves school! I thought he would be
more nervous to go, but he went straight in
and pretty much never looked back. I on the other hand
was near tears BUT held it together and got the heck
out of there before things could take a turn for the worse!!
I was sad, but not that sad-its 3 hours to myself!! :)

That is pretty much it!! I'll hurry and post a few of the pictures my sister in law took of Hayd over the summer, then I'm pretty much caught up! That is LOVE ambs!! I sacrificed watching the Real housewives to blog for you instead!! (not that I watch such smutt!) now it's your turn!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Happy Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY!!!!


You've rocked our world in a million ways kid!!
We could not be happier to have you in our family!
Love you more than you'll ever know!

Friday, October 15, 2010

family pictures


Dahl Family Pictures












Our amazing sister in law was in town this summer so we
were able to have her do family pictures!

Ugh!


We hit up the pumpkin patch today! Ill let you see for yourself how that went...









Reasons it was the pitts:

-It was freaking hot!!
-it seemed like everyone was really cranky, including myself (not the way its supposed to feel at the pumpkin patch!)
-I hate UEA..it was much more crowded than it should have been!
-I just wanted one good picture in front of the truck, Hayden ABSOLUTELY refused to cooperate(see picture number 2, I am begging him, and totally bribing him to just come sit by the truck..thats the reaction I got!)
- and to top it off, the light for pictures was real crap! guess we will give it a try again later!

UGH!!!!



Thursday, July 8, 2010

hmmm...

These pretty much sum up how things are 'round here!!


Hayden is 2, need I say more? :)


Steve's family was in town for the 4th and this is how family pictures pretty much went!
Steve cranky, Hayd being a crazy man!

At least he keeps us laughing!
(except that he has taken to pinching, which is a real treat, and really not all that funny!
unless your my sister Wendy who thinks its really funny, especially when we are in the store)

Cheers to Summer!
(and being outside more than inside which has slowed down my computer time)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Just For you Kara!!


This is Love!! I don't usually participate in such things but I love Kara just too dang much to bring any sort of disapointment to her! :) So here's the deal..I've been tagged!!

Here are the rules:

1. Open your 1st photo folder.
2. Scroll to the 10th photo.
3. Post the photo and the story behind it.
4. Tag 5 more people.




Well here is the photo..And there is actually a kind of funny story to this one. The way our computer is set up in iphoto is not with folders but events. So this is the first event and it is the only picture in that event so I did not have much choice to cheat and pick a picture that is stunningly beautiful of myself. Now you may ask why this photo would be in that particular spot...Well this is a picture that was taken of Steve in the Tribune while he was playing football (which obviously I did not take, so I hope there is not some kind of copy write issue, I swear if I go to jail I will cut you Kara!) Anyway we had had a kind of gnarly copy that was just printed off on the computer, on regular paper. So this last year for Christmas I thought it would be a cool gift for Steve if I tracked it down the original from the Tribune and we could get it printed and framed nicely to hang up in our house. So I finally tracked it down and to my surprise they just let me have it and they just emailed it to me (hence the reason it is on my computer). I thought I was so creative not to mention sneaky! Plus I had tracked down another photo from Steve's dad that we did not have a good copy of him playing, that a appeared in a little magazine called Sports Illustrated (ha ha ha, jk I know that sounds braggy but it is really just for effect, leading up to the climax of my story. I am not really like that! At least I don't think!) Ok so I have these two pictures and I give them to Steve on Christmas (which keep in mind we were trying to be cheap for one another so for pretty much spending no money I was pretty proud!) He opens them up was really very nice and appreciative of them. However they did not create the desired effect I had hoped. Well after we got home from Vegas (we were there for Christmas) and I start talking to him about where to put them (like the family room) and started pushing him a bit about it he finally comes out and says that while he appreciated my effort really, they embarrass him a bit and does not like those to be the first pictures people see when they come into the house (yeah when you live in a small place the family room is the first room people walk into! :)) Being the fantastic wife that I am, and not wanting him to feel uncomfortable in his own home, they were hung in.... the hall way. :) However as I type this I see the irony that if having them in the family room was embarrassing to him I am not sure how he will feel about it being on the blog? I am sure it will be fine...I think. And Rules are Rules, right? I have never been one who felt ok about bending any kind of rules! I guess if this post gets deleted we will know he was not too happy! :) But I am pretty sure only about 6 people read this anyway, most of which are my family so we should be ok, right!

Anyway there you go Kara!! I hope you are feeling all warm and fuzzy with life long love and friendship tingles!!

I tag Wendy, Amy, Heidi, Amber, and Jill---I did it, you guys BETTER TOO!!! I want to feel the friendship tingles ASAP! no pressure though.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

TWO!! Really?!!


TWO!!!

Why is it that the 9 months you were pregnant seemed to last forever? Even just thinking about when I was pregnant seems like the LONGEST time of my life. Then all of a sudden time seems like it is on fast forward! It should be the other way around!! (Note to self, for when I am Queen of the world!) I can't believe Hayd turned 2 today! Time is just flying by! (I would not mind if it slowed down just a little!!)
I think the best gift all moms get, is the ability to think their kids are the best. You just look at that little face (for me it is especially when I look at pictures) and can't help but have your heart melt. A while ago I asked my mom if that feeling lasts forever. Even when your kids are no longer kids and even when they have had a lot of time to do things that may have disappointed you...she assured me it does. I am hopeful this is true, that my mom still melts a little when she sees my face captured in just the right picture. I am so glad we live in this day and age of technology. I sure am not an amazing photographer, but I am so glad to have my camera so at least I always know, no matter how fast, or how much time passes I have a little bit of it frozen in my camera. And every once in a while I luck out and can capture a picture of Hayden, where he has "that" look on his face that just stirs something in the mom part of my heart that I can not quite describe. You know the one.. the one that makes you want to laugh, and cry at the same time, the one that makes you want to fly off the couch at midnight into the little bug's room where they have been peacefully sleeping for hours and scoop them up and just snuggle them for a few minutes (then you remember how valuable your alone time is, so you don't actually do it! But you make a mental note to do it in the morning!) I am not sure I am making any sense but something about Hayden's birthday seems to put me a bit on an emotional roller coaster, so I thought I might as well go with it. :)
Made from scratch Birthday Cake!!
(thank heavens for Steve!)

Happy Birthday Hayd!!
Thanks for making us laugh everyday, and
putting life into perspective for us!
Love you like crazy!