best christmas gift ever....and early too!

this means war!

not funny taylor, not funny!

i will find appropriate retribution

first real bath

Daliah had her first bath yesterday and really didn't seem to mind it.

bakers in training

the girls made snickerdoodles, they were delicious!

11-25-08

It's official! Our little girl arrived Tuesday November 25th at 2pm. She weighed in at a whopping 5lbs 11oz and 18.25 inches long. She is perfectly healthy and happy for being so early....a whole month! We have finally arrived at a name for little baby girl fredlund. So here she is.........Daliah Carmichael Fredlund.

daliah

so i'm afraid this will be the best picture we will get of Daliah before she is born....what a stubborn girl she is. oh well, she'll be here pretty soon so i guess i can wait to see her. if you can't figure it out.....believe me sometimes i just see squigly lines

funny!

Oops....sorry I guess I should have given more info on my last post. Our dear friends Wes and Michelle had their little girl Andie two weeks ago and they found out today that she has some problems with her heart. They are taking her to the children's hospital in Fresno tomorrow. Please keep them in your prayers!

We are praying for you sweetest Loves.

tag

Ok Kate, I will attempt to think of 7 random things to share.....so this may take all day, I think every one knows everything about me.

1. I am now terrified of getting bitten by a black widow...which could easily happen since my house is old and completely infested with the horrid things.

2. I have to give my self 4 shots a day to control my bloodsugar when pregnant, I love creeping my grandma and some friends out with it.

3. My husband and I switched church last year after I had attended the pervious church for 27 of my 28 years. A huge step but we love our new church and family (not that we don't love you all at CCAG still, just needed to get out on our own)

4. It took us 10 weeks of knowing the sex of this baby to finally decide on a name....Daliah Carmichael Fredlund! (this must be a record for us because we knew Lilliah and Aidah's names way before the 20w. ultrasound)

5. I have a friend that I love and still see weekly that I have known since I was about a year old....that's almost 29 years.....yikes!

6. I had knee surgery at the age of 7.

7. I have only 7-8 weeks left until my third daughter is born and I am completely obsessed with meeting her......I can't wait!!

Ok, I tag....Jenn Jenkins, Rachel Ramirez, Megan Caston, Stephanie Jenkins, Leia Davis, Hannah Hoshide and Billy:)

what?

ok......so i was thinking the other day....my due date is christmas and that is SO far away! but then i was thinking well, the c-section is scheduled for 12/18 so thats a bit closer. Then i thought, i didn't go past 38 weeks with the girls...and i'm a little over 28 weeks now.....holy cow! this baby will be here in 10 weeks! WHAT!?!?!? oh no, i am so not ready, i don't even have her name picked out yet. We are wavering between Hannah (her nickname would be Hattie), Dahlia, and Olive. It may be one of those but who knows? so to sum up.....i need your prayers! this little one will be here so soon and i've got a million things to do! but i really can't wait to see her!!!

long time no post

how long has it been? forever? yeah i thought so. here are some recent pictures of the little monsters......


we were wondering what she was up to...it was way too quiet...oh, she got into her little make up kit and gave herself a makeover, boy was she pissed when we took it away!~

happier days at the barn
this is what happens when you leave the kitchen for 2 minutes...cereal everywhere! and this is her new pose for photos cute huh?

food blog

i stole this from another blog...well, i didn't steal it, they told me to take it. this is a list of 100 things every omnivore should try at least once.

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating. (since i'm lame and can't figure out the cross out function on my blog...it is 3:20 in the am...the items i will never try will be in italics)
(since i am incredibly picky and don't try new things often i think this will be a very boring list)

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi ?
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (i'm a wimp remember?)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda ?
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail (i was 2, it was fresh out of the garden)
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

see...i haven't tried too many of these things and most of the things i have tried were on the list to keep it lowbrow...well, i never claimed to be a foodie...just a fat girl that likes food....bad food apparently

oh my sweetness (or sourness)

hilarious.....i love babies eating lemons! i'm gonna have to have the girls try some...

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

it's a............

Girl!!!

We were so sure she was a boy that we didn't believe the dr. at first. Well, this means we will have three girls in high school at the same time, yikes! We have a few names picked out but the one that I love more than any other Billy doesn't like and the name we were going to use I'm kind of over......so stay tuned and maybe we'll come up with a name we can agree on before she's born?

new time killers

ok, so at work I have a million hours to kill after I finish everything. Usually I kill the time on the internet. Today I found some new blogs that I thought I'd share.
http://www.seriouseats.com/

The first is a food blog...which is not good to read while pregnant and hungry, but it is super interesting (at least to me)

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
And the second, I found from the first is...Cake wrecks. They just have pictures of bad cakes all made by professional bakers...people do get paid to make these. I can't even find words for how hilarous this cake is....oh goodness it made me cry
enjoy my new finds!!

fier free!!!!!

That's right folks, Lilliah has kicked the habbit. No more paci"fier" for her! We made a big deal of throwing her fier to the baby fishes at her birthday party. She's doing really well considering how much she loved that thing and hasn't gone back, what a big girl!

One last suck. I still can't believe I got this shot, if you look close at the bottom right corner, you can actually see the pacifier hitting the water.

She walked all the way back from the pier trying to find her "fier" but it was long gone.

Lilliah's 3rd Birthday party

Sunday we had Lilliah's birthday party. It was a much smaller afair than last year but it was fun. The kids are obsessed with pirates lately so we had a treasure hunt (necklaces and coins burried in sand in a kids pool) and desert island cupcakes. We certainly missed the Caston/Dungan contingent but we'll see you all soon right?
Sugar induced delirium

I love my little family