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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Baby Cousin

My sister went into labor on December 17 and had a baby girl on Thursday December 18th. She was a big girl. She weighed 9 pounds! It is a good thing she was 3 days early. My sister tore a lot during the delivery and had to have surgery to redo the stitches. She was out of the hospital soon enough and we all enjoyed spending Christmas with our newest family member. Annelise had a nice Christmas and enjoyed blowing out the candle on Jesus's birthday cake. Here are a few photos of Krystina Alisabeth (I think that is how it is spelled). Thanks to Annelise, we all call her "baby cousin". If you want to see more photos, follow the Picassa Web Albums link on the right.

Me and my new niece.

Krystina wearing the same outfit her mommy wore (Krystina born 12-18-08, her mother born 12-21-84)

Annelise with "Baby Cousin"

Wave!

Looking at Christmas lights with my dad and Annelise.

Friday, November 14, 2008

October 31st

We planned to go to a church party instead of doing the whole Trick-or-Treat thing. So we hurried into the car and started driving to a place in the country that we had been to several months ago. Since we are generally good with directions, I didn't think to check them again. We drove and drove and drove and never found the location of our church party. I was very frustrated. We finally made it back home and decided to take Annelise Trick-or-Treating in our neighborhood. She really enjoyed it. Although she was very polite and friendly to most everyone we talked to, she was very confused when we knocked on the door to one house and a human-like black cat opened the door. She loved carrying around her Easter basket and didn't want help with it, even when it started getting heavy for her. By the end of the night, she had a lot of candy and Momma and Daddy are really enjoying it!