Dahl Family Pictures
Our amazing sister in law was in town this summer so we
were able to have her do family pictures!
Friday, October 15, 2010
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!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Las Vegas round 2
Just wanted to do a few of my favorite random pictures from Vegas!
Grandpa & Hayden at the park!
ha ha ha!!
Yep he is licking a rock! (luckily it is from Gam's
courtyard so I tell myself it is cleaner than a random
rock, right?) you can tell by that naughty little grin
he knows he should not be doing it but he thinks its
so funny when his mom calls him gross!
Ha ha ha!! I locked him out in the courtyard!
(it was only for a second!!) But still funny!!
He looks so sad! He is such a funny guy!
he is at a naughty stage, but also such a fun,
and cute stage! Some days I want to poke my eye
out (like the day I found he had stuffed
his owl down the heat vent!! well that was
actually kind of funny!) But most days
I feel like one lucky lady!!
Late in coming, but....
This is a really late post but, for my own journaling purposes I wanted to do a post on our trip to Las Vegas for Christmas and New Years. We had such a good time and I took a MILLION pictures!!! (so feel free not to read this if you don't want to because there is a LOT of pictures! And this is only a few highlights of the 10 days!)he he he!
the Tater!! He loved having so much freedom and running
around like a crazy person!!
After church! Bet you did not know you can rip gel clings
(you know the things you put on your windows!)
this happens to be Hayd tearing Frosty's Hat!!
(he does not look too sorry does he!!)
Playing the piano with aunt jess! Hayden Loves his
aunt Jess and uncle Rob! He asks for them pretty much
every day! They were SO much help, and we are so lucky to
have them in our life!!
Christmas Morning!
I may be in trouble for posting this one! but I can not resist!! :)
Three generations of Dahl boys in Christmas jams! he he he
Christmas Eve Jams
(Horton Hears a Who!!)
Tater was a real stink pot Christmas Eve!
Lucky for him we did not take it personal (well I
might have a little) :), he
was being a real pill during dinner so we ended
up just putting him
to bed mid way through! my visions of a
great dinner and leaving
cookies out for santa, opening christmas jams
and reading christmas stories were shot!! I learned
a valuable lesson! It is better to just have him go to bed, rather
than try to keep him up for festivities
until he is old enough to get it!! :)
hanging out with dad!
After dinner with Grams & Grandpa!
An AMAZING dinner at the Grand Lux to Celebrate
Rob's Birthday!
Riding in style along the strip! We went down to
check out the new City Center! This is how Hayden
insisted on riding, he kicked off his shoes like 8
times! (luckily grandpa took over pushing, and I walked
ahead pretending I did not know him!) he he he! jk!
oh! Steve-o and I! ;)
(he loves getting his picture taken, can you tell!
he especially likes it when I make him stop
and pose in the midst of large crowds of people!!)
Thanks for humoring me though!
Checking out the fountains from above!
Thanks for everything Grams and Grandpa, and Rob and Jess!! Can not wait to do it again SOON!!
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