Catch Up

It has been over two months since our last post and they were two CRAZY months. Jeremy and myself traveled in November for a week and then we spent Thanksgiving in Colo Springs with his family and then spent Christmas and New Years Eve with mine. So this is going to be just a catch up post of the last few months.




Karli and I went to Casper while Jeremy was in Dallas for work, and Karli got to meet her new little cousin Lydia. And she LOVED her!!! She was always looking for her and if she couldn't find her she got REALLY upset. Mega cute!









Daddy's little girls and THEIR little girls!









Karli and her Uncle Sean










Karli With her Grandma and Grandpa Quade!










Just a random cute picture of Karli wearing Jeremy's hat.








These are pictures from Thanksgiving at Schoonmakers house. We had a ton of fun and Karli loves her cousins.






Karli in her Christmas outfit from Grandma Schoonie








Family picture in the back yard.









Christmas Time!!! We had so much fun and got to spend a lot of time at home with my family and here are pictures of that.








Karli and Lydia in matching dresses that Grandma and Grandpa got them.












Kari is reading her her cousin Elaena.
















Karli and Madalyn who is the closest cousin in age to her.












Mom and Karli in the Sunday clothes











Matching girls and their moms







Daddy and Karli Decorating our tree.










Karli opening presents with her Mom.

















Karli's new Kangaroo climber. She goes up and down the sides and the slide.












Uncle Michael reading Karli her new Winnie the Pooh book. She just LOVES Pooh Bear!!


The next pictures are from a Christmas Murder Mystery Party we did at my parents house with a big chunk of my brothers and sisters. It was SO fun; everyone got into it and played their roles and as you can see the costumes were SWEET! Thanks to Mom and Dad for hosting and buying it!

Murder Mystery Party

We did a Halloween Murdery Mystery Party this weekend and it was a BLAST!!! We did one last year and I was a little iffy about whether we would like it or not, but we REALLY did and so we are making it an annual thing and this year was even more fun than last year. We had a lot of friends come and get all dressed up. Jeremy was a serial killer and I was The Phantom of The Opera.

We had a fun Halloween this year Karli thought the whole thing was very funny. We carved pumkins and got a costume for Karli, and she held on to her little pumpkin bucket all day.


About to carve pumkins, Karli still thinks they are balls and is pretty excited about it, because she LOVES balls.


And this is when she realizes that they are NOT balls and is trying to get as far away from them as possible. Soon after we started carving them she said "All done" and walked to her room to get ready for bed.



But Jeremy and I finished both pumkins one with Pooh Bear for Karli and then a cool spooky one.


A tradition at my house growing up was after everyone got done with their pumpkins we lit them all and looked at them in the dark...very cool.



Karli found this Pooh Bear costume at the store and wouldn't let go of it...so we got it and she got really excited every time she saw it.


Tricker Treating


She can't say Trick or Treat, but she said "Pssssss" (Please) at each house, and then she would blow kisses to say thank you. So cute!!!


"Yummy Skittles." I think Karli found her new favorite holiday.


And of course sharing with Mom.

Jeremy's B-Day Weekend

Jeremy's team at work won a competition and so he had an extra Friday and Monday off, and he had to use them by the end of October. Which worked out great for his birthday this weekend. We just relaxed at home: watched movies, played games, did yard work...(our landlord is paying for the materials to landscape the backyard and we are very excited for Karli to be able to have an outside place to play where I'm not constantly freaking out about the street!) and of course we went to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. This is a world wide gathering of hot air balloons and it goes for two weeks. We went at night and then "chased" balloons in our car another morning. We had a great weekend and here are some pictures!


Jeremy wanted his fruit pizza to look like Superman's Shield... and so i did my best. I love him!


Before they do the balloons they have a big carnival-like thing. There are booths with overpriced things and over priced food, but it's generally worth it because you can't get the stuff except in this setting...and besides, it's fun! Karli wanted to walk most of the night even though we had her stroller.


I don't think she understood the point of this picture, but it's still cute.


It was a pretty breezy day and so people were flying kites on the balloon field before the balloon crews got there. Karli REALLY liked the kites.


These were the first balloons up (they don't take off at night they just 'glow' by using the gas fire that heats them)


The fires were loud like a HUGE blow torches and Karli was pretty freaked out. She clung on to me and she didn't let go until we put her in her car seat to go home. She likes here momma quite a bit.


This is a few going up. They use fans to fill the balloon as much as they can first and then the use the fire to make it stand. It's pretty fun to watch and every one claps.


Our little family in front of the balloons (Karli still clinging for dear life.)

Labor Day

Labor day weekend was a BLAST! My parents came down from Wyoming and spent it with us, and Karli was especially happy to have Grandpa and Grandma 'Quade' there. Here are some pictures from our weekend.



We went to the zoo and Karli just loved it! She got to see all the animals and since Grandpa and Grandma were the ones who showed her most of the animals she did not let them out of her sight. Any time they got too far away she pointed and "ooh"ed until we caught up. In this picture they are all looking up at the monkeys.



Karli and her Uncle Sean are in the bird cage.



Along with the zoo we went to botanical gardens and the aquarium. One of the gardens had everything giant sized so it felt a little like "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" and this is Karli inside a giant carrot.



And of course we watched BYU's opening game where they won (I think it was directly related to Karli's cheer outfit) That was a good night!!! Go Cougars!




And this last one is a picture of Karli's church dress. Man she is a doll! Thank you Grandma Schoonie for the cute dress.

McQuade Renuion 2010-Bear Lake

We had a McQuade family reunion at Bear Lake this year. Everyone but Michael, who is in Korea on his mission, was able to come. Megan and Monte were awesome-they came up with the theme and the place, and planned tons of fun activities for adults and for the kids. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Also my mom and dad were amazing-they footed the bill for the house and food (which there was a TON) MAJOR THANKS to them too!!! From Monday to Saturday we played games, swam, played games, played volley ball, played games, sang, and of course played games!!! And our MAJOR news was Karli took her very first steps. I have so many pictures that I just did I slide show and then a video of Karli's first steps.