What a CRAZY month!

Sorry for the delay between posts... This month has been a roller coaster ride. I would like to start off by saying Happy (belated) Birthday to Susie (Sophia and Josh), SETH (my youngest brother), and anyone else that I have neglected in the last few months! We have been trying to get on top of bills from Jim's car accident--2 1/2 years ago-- and me being off from work for longer than we had planned to be home with Karlie when she was born. We had alot to do around the house to have it appraised, but we were blessed with a good appraisal and hopefully will now be on top of things in that area of our lives.
This last week has been very physically and emotionally draining for all of us. Last Thursday Karlie came down with the stomach flu(we didn't know until I caught it that she had the flu--we thought it was a bad reaction to milk because we have not been able to get her to stop drinking formula yet), Friday and Saturday we had a yard sale that I couldn't cancel because I had already put the ad in the paper Tuesday Jim had a 2 day appt. out of town that was set up as part of trying to settle for his car accident. Tuesday morning I got the flu and had to leave work... later around 7 p.m. we got tragic news that a very,very close friend of Jim Sr.'s and our family had passed away unexpectedly, so Jim and his dad came back to town that night and Karlie and I packed up and went out of town(about a two hour drive- we got to the hotel about 1am.) We came home Wednesday afternoon and tried to finish out the week with out breaking down too much. Saturday Karlie and I attended a memorial service for our friend(Jim came down with the flu at about 3am and was very upset that he was going to miss it.) Hopefully we will get to take Karlie to the fair tomorrow if it isn't too cold... I will try to get lots of cute pics to post soon. I hope this post doesn't sound too pitiful or like I am rambling... I just have alot on my mind with every thing that has been happening... I will try to have a more positive post tomorrow...

More pictures from the past few weeks...

I just wanted to post a few pics from the last few weeks... Things have still been super busy...

This is Karlie with our puppy we got a couple months ago. We decided to name her Lily. We got her at the local animal shelter when she was about 2 months old. It has been a lot of work trying to potty train her. (My husband likes to remind me that he told me it would be a lot of hard work!) She is a supposed to be a Yorkie/Chihuahua mix.

We visited the TF Temple with my G&G N and Jim's Dad. (Jim Sr.) It was very pretty. I wanted to get some pics of Karlie around the water fountain and flowers by the temple, but Karlie was so tired that she would hardly stay still for these pictures. Hopefully I will get another chance to get some pics the next time my family visits or if we end up taking Jim's mom.

Karlie has started to try to dress herself with whatever she can find. She was so proud of herself for getting the swim diaper and Jim's hat on, that she wore them for about an hour and kept laughing and saying "CUTE".

Karlie LOVES the water. She would stay in it all day if we would let her.

The water park was a blast to visit for cousin Hunter's birthday!(I know I really need a tan!)

Happy Birthday Aunt Tara and Cousin Hunter!!!!!!!!!!(Or "Huntee" as Karlie has been saying constantly since we visited last weekend) We rode up with G&G N and ate at the Cracker Barrel. It was a lot of fun!

I thought the rocking chairs they sold there were adorable. Karlie seemed to like them quite a bit too. Hunter sure is a cutie!