What do you do

What do you do when your daughter takes the dog's bone away from her??

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Grab the camera!

Christmas Card 2009

Matt and I really wanted to send out our first Christmas card this year; we even took a picture for it! But after looking over everything, we decided we didn't really have the money to print out and send a card to all our family and friends. So, I decided to blog our Christmas card this year instead! Here is our year in review:

January 2009: We had an awesome New Years Eve party with a murder mystery dinner, written by yours truly, and we went and saw Jeff Dunham live at Energy Solutions Arena.

February 2009: For my 25th birthday, we had a massive party at the Layton Surf n Swim with lots of family and friends.

March 2009: Several baby showers from work, my family and old ward, and Matt's family.

April 2009: Kalianna Dace joined our family as the best April Fools Day trick ever! (arriving 3 weeks early)

May 2009: Had some professional pictures taken of Kalianna for her newborn pics and birth announcement.

June 2009: Kalianna was blessed by her daddy.

July 2009: We went to Oregon with our good friends, Brian and Anna Johnson.

August 2009: Matt had a friend (Sveta) visit from Latvija, which doesn't happen very often!

September 2009: Both Matt and Kalianna's first time going horseback riding.

October 2009: Matt and I celebrated four wonderful years of marriage! Matt also turned 26 and Kalianna got her first taste of Halloween, dressed as a little fairy.

November 2009: We had a great Thanksgiving with family and got our first professional family pictures taken (technically in October).

December 2009:

Merry Christmas!

With Love from Matt, Stacy, Kalianna, Sobaka, and Kutse Carroll

Festival of Trees

I had never been before, so we decided to go this year when my sister, Kristine, invited us to go with them. Then my parents, Theresa, Bryan, and Ricci decided to join us too! Then Matt ended up having to work on Saturday, so he didn't get to come =-( It was fun and I enjoyed all the different trees. So creative! After the festival we all went over to Spaghetti Mama's for lunch.

Cute girl! She looks so excited to be there, doesn't she?

I love the way she is watching Uncle Bryan

Kalianna's first cotton candy

We took this picture for daddy. His girls in front of the chocolate tree

Some trees I thought were fun

Some super cool gingerbread houses

Cute quilt

Lunch afterwards

8 Months!

So last night we were at Matt's soccer game and someone asked me how old Kalianna was. I was about to say "she'll be 8 months in December". Then I realized...Holy cow! It IS December!! And I forgot to do her 8 month post! I blame it on being sick this week. I haven't even had the energy to decorate for Christmas yet. =-(

So I took her updated pictures this morning. It was so cute! As you can see, this is the first time Kalianna really noticed the big teddy bear I was leaning her against. She was fascinated! Such a cutie! So a few things about Kalianna at eight months:

- She is getting so close to crawling! She gets up on her hands and knees and moves back and forth. Its only a matter of time now...

- The tooth that has been threatening to come in for weeks has finally broken through the gums! Now when she bites, you can feel it!

- She's babbling more and more. She's always been a talker, but now she is learning new syllables and getting closer to forming words.

- She loves to try new foods! Her favorites now include gingerbread cookies, apple slices, and pickles. She Loves pickles! The first time I gave her one, I thought for sure she'd make a funny face. But not at all! She loved it and just kept sucking and sucking.

- All she wants to do is jump. She's getting too big for her door jumper, but if she could, she would probably live in that thing! Even when she is standing on my lap, all she wants to do is jump.

- She loves singing songs with mommy. Her favorite right now is "Old McDonald". She loves when I make the different animals sounds.

- And she desperately wants to be bigger than she is! Whenever she sees little kids walking or running, she tries to throw herself out of my arms to join them.

She just gets to be more and more fun every day!

Actor Recycle Bin

Kalianna and I have both been sick this week. The only good thing about being sick? It means I get to watch Gilmore girls! So I started season one again for the millionth time and realized something. I may have seen Gilmore girls too many times! After watching it again this week, I noticed they re-use actors to play different parts later in the show! For example:

* If you are a fan, you probably already knew that Carol King (who sings the theme song) also plays the owner of the music store later on.

* Also that Kirk, who ends up being a predominant character, starts out as Mick, the guy who is installing a DSL line at Lorelai and Rory's house.

* You probably even noticed that the long-haired troubadour from season one comes back to be the preacher when Liz and TJ get married.

* But did you know that on Jackson and Suki's first date, the waiter at the fancy french restaurant also comes back to play Suki's good friend, Joe, from cooking school?

* And when Rory goes golfing with her grandpa at the club and she is in the steam room, one of the ladies in the steam room talking gossip comes back to be in the booster club with Lorelai. She helps with the fashion show and has a crush on Luke.

* Jess' dad's girlfriend from California comes back with a completely different hair color as April's mom.

* And one of Rory's professors at Yale (the one who is teaching when Logan and Collin and Fin come in and interrupt with their performance) plays her professor on two different occasions and then when Luke and April's mom go to court, the same actor plays the police officer who is standing by the door.

I'm sure there are probably even more, but those are the ones I have noticed so far. Yeah...I think I've seen the show too many times!