HaLLoWEen fUN!!!

The First Snow

The first snow came this week. And it stuck. I snapped a picture of the house in the first snow. It is October 19, 2007. I can hardly remember a year we had snow that stayed before Halloween. We had two storms this weekend as well. The news was saying we had about an inch Saturday, but I could look outside and see that it was more like 4 inches. The fall just never lasts long enough.

Halloween ride

Jake and I went on a date last weekend. Just the two of us. no Kate. We went on the Haunted Heber Creeper Ride. The ride was not scary but we had never ridden this local train so it was a fun adventure.

Also I thought I would point out the puffy vest I am wearing. It is one of two I own. Jake and I are obsessed with wearing puffy vests. Sometimes when we get ready to go out independently of one another we will both we wearing one. We joke that we look like tourists.

Kate and Lisa

Jake's parents were in town for General Conference, and his sister Lisa came up for a day as well. I snapped this cute pict of Lisa and Kate together and thought I would share it.

"Patchy"

Yes Patchy is what Jake and I have been calling me since Thursday. Because as you can see in the picture below, I am wearing a patch on my eye.... no I am not trying to relive Jake's third year of life, I under went some eye surgery of my own on Thursday at the Moran Eye Center in SLC. For what? Well I had some unnamed problem with my eyelashes, poking me in the eye and scratching my lens blurring my vision. The whole experience was very interesting, they mildly sedated me, but I could see the whole thing as they cut off the lower section of my upper eyelid and reattached it. I talked to the surgeon and his students who were watching for the majority of the time. What do you talk about while your eye is being cut open you ask? Well we talked about where was good to eat around the hospital, as I was forbidden to eat anthing for the previous 18 hours, I talked to the interns about Grey's Anatomy, and then when Dr. Weinberg was doing some cutting he asked me...." Have you ever done any international travel to a 3rd world country" Why yes I replied, then listed several countries he might be interested in hearing about....Ethiopia, Kenya, Egypt, Malaysia, China, Thailand.... as he stopped me to tell me he had found the problem with me eye. I apparently likely aquired a bacterial infection while traveling abroad and had a mild case of Trichiasis. Which he explains is the leading cause of blindness in 3rd world countires.....but can be treated- before you get to the point I was at by taking three little pills of a certain antibiotic, which he perscribed to me to take to be sure the problem will not return. Aparently some bacteria gets in your eye and creates some scar tissue pushing your lashes every which way including into your eye. Well it has been an adventure. I joke that I am going to be a pirate for Halloween. Also it has been a lesson in confidence, or finding I have more than I may have thought, as I am not self conscious in the least that i look like a modern day pirate. I would have included a pict of the actual eye, but I am afraid it is a little gross for some blogosphere readers.

Halloween Costumes

Yes I like Halloween- but no I did not buy all of these for Kate. They were gifts from various friends. You can cast your vote for the one you love most in the poll on the site.

My thoughts are

Pumpkin- is this a little overdone?

Polar Bear- a cute picture, not as cute of a costume, but if we say it is the Polar Bear from Lost it makes it awsome and

Ladybug- a little more hard to manage with the wings and boots, but I think it is what I am leaning towards.

You may notice I took the poll off. I am not sure what happened but all the votes got erased, though I think when I last checked 9 people had voted for the Ladybug, 3 for the Polar Bear and 8 for the Pumpkin. Congradulations Lady Bug Kate for winning the poll.... too bad the poll turned lame and got erased early. Oh well it will be a fun Halloween!

100 % Purebred Fan

I have mentioned in a previous post how were are conditioning Kate to be a BYU fan from birth. We had tickets for the BYU vs. Air Force game and were all ready to go in our white and blue last weekend. Then thunder clouds appeared on the horizon- so Kate stayed at Grandma Anderson's house while Jake and I went alone. It was a good game and we did not get soaked by the rain until the last quarter. We have tickets again for Nov 3rd, but I am sure Kate will not get to go to this one either as it will likely be 30 degrees outside. Too bad- she was in her BYU tennis dress and everything.

Last week I did not have much work, so I got a little bored and decided to do some sewing. I made several big blankets for Kate and then with some scraps made her this cute yellow hat. It took a few tries- she has a pretty big head. I thought this was a decent new picture of her.

Fall Top Ten

Fall is my favorite time of year- if it is not yours, here are some reasons to reconsider.

1. How every picture you take looks like it belongs in a calander- (ie, pict to the left)

2. Eating anything that is Pumpkin and Spice to include but not limited to Spice Muffins, Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Bread, Chocolate Pumpking Bread, Choclate Zucchini Bread (not a pumpkin but in the squash family); and Halloween candy- also not Pumpkin but whose wouldn't list it.

3. The way it smells old outside, and like Pumpkin and Spice baked goods inside.

4. Taking a nap on the couch cuddled with Kate in the afternoon as I listen to the wind outside russle the leaves and bang the gate back and forth.

5. Halloween, my favorite holiday, costumes, candy, parties, decor, we love it all. Kate's costume is already ready to go.

6. How I can now use things, that I use all year including in the summer because i am always cold, but somehow now seem moderatle more approriate now that the temperature has dropped below 70 degrees.(ie, quilts, hoodies, the car heater, hot chocolate)

7. The Return of real primetime programming. (Prison Break, The Biggest Loser, Grey's Anatomy-thank goodness), and along with this guilt free television watching, now that it is too cold to do something outside.

8. My motivation to excersize outside increases now that it is not soooo hot.

9. College Football. Well okay only BYU football, but my husband I think is glad I have at least some interest in SOME team and SOME sport for SOME period of time.

10. Fall brings back good memories, memories of good changes, of starting school, of falling in love.

Little Trip- Big Trees

We just got back from California for our summer trip. It was Kate's first time on an airplane! One day we went with all the Fresno Freemans to the Grand Sequia National Forest to see the big trees. We had a fun trip- and saw the 2nd tallest tree in the world

Kate had fun playing with her cousins Ellie and Melissa, and seeing Uncle Dave and Mark, Aunt Emily and Elisabeth and Grandma and Grandpa Freeman. What a great long Labor Day Weekend!

We thought it only appropriate that one of Kate's first foods be prunes (Jake grew up on a prune farm). She seemed to enjoy them and of course we let her make a mess. Her Grandpa Freeman will be so proud she likes the family fruit!

The Freeman's- do do do da do do do da dododo do

Here is Jake, Crys and Kate all Simpsonized. So Kate is a little big, I couldn't figure out how to shrink her to her real size. I think it is pretty funny. To make you own go to http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/. If you do make one be sure to email it to me.... I want to see.

sun valley, idaho

BICYCLE LIMOUSINE

We went to Sun Valley, Idaho for a legal conference this month. Jake was in classes till 12:30 but after that is was just a vacation. We had a condo Jake's work rented that we shared with another small family from his work. It was fun. We went swimming, played games and explored the town. It was a lot like Park City so it was a little funny we drove all that way. The whole town is built for skiing in the winter and biking in the summer. We rented a tandum bike- the ones with two seats and then attached a kids trailer for Kate. We rode around for a little over three hours on the many bike trails all over the area. The guy at the bike shop had never attached a trailer to a tandum bike, it was quite long and to turn around we had to get off- we called it the bicycle limousine. Yeah for vacation! It is so much fun going to new places and doing new things!

Here is Kate and Crystal in one of the pools. Kate's first attempt at swimming.

down by the river

As always, Jake planned a wonderful birthday suprise for me, and took me Kayaking down the Provo River. We had never been before and found it so much fun we hope it might be our new hobby. I didn't want to take the camera with us on the river so we did not get a pict of the kayak. Provo River was no River Wild (the movie that inspired this interest for rafting in the first place) but well worth the $30 rental fee.

See, really all we do is look at Kate. This month we are going on vacation, so hopefully I will take lots of pictures and have something different to post about.

4 years

We are celebrating our 4th Wedding Anniversary this month. Two homes, two more college degrees, two more jobs each and one baby later. How great it is to wake up four years later and find I wouldn't trade a day of it.

Kate out of the bath. She likes to take baths, but not get her hair washed. She also likes to look at herself in the mirror all the time.

Here are some new picts of our precious Kate. She is now three months old. I would post something else other than pictures of her, but really all we do anymore is look at her and try to make her laugh.

Her daddy sure loves her!

Here is Kate... Waiting for Grandma to call.

" Rise and Shout- Our Cheers will ring out, we're Alma Mater's Son's and Daughters"... Yes her parents are already brainwashing her into a BYU fan, so much so that she chooses to sleep giving us a "Y" every day!

Kate Marie Freeman
Born April 9, 2007 @ 7: 49 pm
7 lbs 9 0z
18 inches
Here is our little Kate! Finally! We thought she would come around St. Patrick's Day, or at least her Dad's birthday, but she wanted her own day and waited until after Easter. Here she is an hour or so after she was born! Perfect as can be

Here is a pict of Jake and I on moving day- yes this was back in Novemeber, and suprisingly this is the last picture we have taken. Yes we are pathetic with our digital camera. You can't really see our new house, I was trying to get the address in the picture. What an exciting day.

Hello to all our family and friends. I have been thinking about making a family web page for some time so that our family and friends spread far and wide could see just what the Jake and Crystal Freeman Family were up to. This blog is a successful as I have come. I hope you all can enjoy. I will try to update it often.

This is a pict of Jake and I in San Francisco- our last little getaway before the baby is born. Our first day there was just so tourist San Francisco. We went to the aquarium, on a cruise under the Golden Gate Bridge and then ate clam chowder from a street vendor as we watched street performers. The two days we spent touring every museum and Alcatraz. Love it, Love it!