Festival of Trees

Thankfully the babies stayed in long enough for me to enjoy one of my all time favorite holiday traditions, going to "Festival of Trees".  It was so much fun!  My Dad, Curtis and I met with Addie, Eli, Parker, Paxton, and dear friends that we consider family Cheyenne, Tim, Mich, and Olivia at Cafe Ole for a non traditional meal before the event. * Note to self NEVER go to Cafe Ole in down town Boise... bad chips and salsa, cold food, not pleasant service, no bueno!  After dinner we walked to the "Festival of Trees" where we met up with Megan, Kyler, and Krew.  I was SO pregnant and SO large at the time I called ahead and found out they had wheelchairs so...... I got myself a wheelchair so i could fully enjoy the festival!  When I was younger my favorite part of festival of trees a was watching all the people playing different caricatures like the "Queen of Hearts" and "Captain Hook" but now as an adult my favorite part of the festival is watching my nephews and friends children all wrapped up in the magic of all the trees, candy, hot chocolate, and Santa.  I cant wait to take Carter and Charlie next year!

 

 

 

  

 

  

Thanksgiving 2013

What a great Thanksgiving! The whole family was able to get together and we even managed to get some family pictures done!  Thank you Cheyenne for taking all these fabulous pictures!

 

The "Ladies"

  

The "Gentlemen"

The Henderson Family

 The Perry Family

The Crandall Family

 We did make the BEST turkey we have ever made this year!  I will post the recipe on "See Them Cook"!

 

After we ate at my parents we headed to the "Beal" household for round 2 and Benett was pleased as punch!

 

 

Brigitte posed for me in front of the Christmas Tree.  I attempted to get a picture of Spencer but he was just too faster riding around the living room on his bike!

Family Time

Got to love getting older.... It always brings the family together!  We celebrated my 28th birthday with sushi (mine was cooked of course due to my still pregnant state) and Christmas movies. Thank you again Mom and Dad for treating us all to dinner! I was able to get this GREAT picture of my most favorite men EVER!!!!

Parker, Krew, and not so little Paxton

No Husky Puppies In My Future...

It is official..... My hopes and dreams of Stihl having little husky puppies is over.... 

We could have had a littler of these precious babies but..... with the twins arriving any time now we really had no other choice.  It was time for her to visit the vet and get fixed.

   

I know it may not seem like it in this picture but she is handling it all extremely well.  This was just her first night back and she was still a little doped up.  I love that she is totally passed out with her little tongue out.

 Our vet really did a great job! 

She only needs to wear her cone at nighttime and it doesn't phase her one bit... Well at least until she wakes in the morning and runs for the front door.  She gets stuck every time between the door and the door frame!

No Husky

Surprise Birthday Party!

Today Curtis and I had the pleasure of seeing his nieces three in their sacrament meeting now that I am on modified bed rest!  I can't tell you how excited I was to get out of the house and how fun it was to see all the children up there singing, making faces, dancing....  It was so much fun!  Even Carter and Charlie got into the songs and they danced around in my belly the whole time! Thank you girls for such a lovely morning!

Grace, Caroline, Lila, and......

 I can't forget sweet baby William!  He wasn't able to be in the program but he cheered along with the rest of us in the crowd!

After the program we had a big family dinner over at Jayna and Tylers house.  To my surprise when I walked in, the girls has made me the most spectacular birthday banner I have ever seen!  We were having a little surprise party!  Christy cooked what might now be my most favorite meal ever!  It was an ingenious concoction that included pasta, cheese, heavy cream, bacon, chicken, and shrimp!  Oh it was so good!

Can you see the excitement on my face that brought out ALL six chins...... Yes over Christmas onesies!

I know I don't SEEM to be excited about this gift in this photo but I assure you I am!  Grace had taken tissue paper and made me a bouquet of flowers to put in the nursery.  I was int he middle of asking her how she had done it and if she could show me some time! So talented Grace!  Thank You!

And here it is!!!  All EIGHT chins!!!!  But they just can't be contained when seeing the adorable onesies that Jayna brought back with her from her London!  I can't wai tto dress up my little chaps Carter and Charlie!  Thank you!

Seriously..... so cute!

 

 Sherry baked up a scrumptious pumpkin pie cheese cake, with a pecan crust and fresh whipped cream!  Everyone was so excited to dig in that I even had helpers to blow out my candels.  Miss. Brigitte to my left and Miss. Lila to my right!

Curtis was so kind as to eat around every edge of my cake to make it this small little piece.  I don't mind though because they send me home with the whole second pan we didn't even touch yet!!!1 :)

Almost all the nieces and nephews!  The only one missing is Wlliam who was off splashing in the bath!

Where is Pop going to find room to get Carter and Charlie in there when they arrive..... :)

Now Miss. Caroline drew me a picture for my Birthday and it was a picture of me!  I told her I would keep it next to the crib in case I'm not there to be the first thing that babies see, then they will have her spot on drawing there to comfort them in the meantime!  Thank You Caroline!

This is the bed rest part of modified bed rest.  As funny as this may sound but now that the doctor has ok'd me to move around more I have less and less energy to do all teh things that I want and can do!

 

Curtis and I! Xoxoxo

The side picture is so much more revealing on the ACTUAL size of my belly filled with 11 POUNDS of baby at 34 weeks!  Please note my husband looking lovingly at my belly.... I can hear it in his head now "Dang, that's a huge belly".

Here it is a little closer!

The ONLY reason that I am posting this picture is for PURE SCIENTIFIC fact that I, Kallie Anne Crandall will NEVER HAVE A BUTT!  Even with pregnancy!  I'm pretty sure it has actually longer and flatter!

Oh and I cant forget the "28" the girls some how cut out and plastered on my belly! :)

 

Love Love Love these little angels and they are so excited to meet Carter and Charlie!

Oh and last but not least Dan and Sherry got us what we so so so so desperately wanted!!!!  An incredibly fancy new CAMERA and VIDEO recorder!!!!!  Now with my new blog and camera thanks to Sherry I will be posting pictures and videos like a mad woman!  Thank you everyone for making my birthday so special!