Off and running....

2012 has started off really good for us, we sure are hoping the fun continues!! 

The first week of the year Gramma and Grampa got here and they will be staying for a few months.  We are excited to have them here and to get to see them more often!! 

We took the girls to see Zoo Lights with Grampa, Gramma, Uncle Adam and Aunt Lindsey.  It was fun!!  The girls really loved looking at the lights.  It was pretty crowded to get in since we went on the last weekend it was open, but once we got inside we didn't notice the crowd too much.  There sure were a lot of lights this year!!  The girls got to ride the carousel and they enjoyed that.  Camdyn didn't like this carousel as much as she liked the Disneyland carousel, but really I can't blame her since the zoo carousel is just a little less magical than Disneyland's!!

Zoo Lights.

Tatum has started to love dressing up in her princess clothes.  She has a great time dressing up and looking like a princess or a fairy.  She of course also has to make sure her hair and makeup are princess quality too.  When she put on her fairy wings we told her to try and fly and she responded, "I can't fly, I don't have any pixie dust."  How cute is that?!?  We told her next time we go to Disneyland we will have to ask Tinkerbell for some!!  Tatum is so funny with things that she says, another new thing she is saying, "Hey, whats the big idea", not sure where she got it from, but it is definitely adorable. 

Tatum, our princess fairy.

Camdyn has already had a lot going on this first few weeks.  Guess she is just trying to squeeze a bunch of milestones in before her first birthday!!  Her 5th tooth popped all the way through.  So she now has a tooth showing on the top, super cute!!  We had tacos the other night and she had the ground turkey with the peppers and she loved it.  Camdyn is loving clapping and high five's, love it when she smiles and claps for us!! Camdyn got to try out a sippy cup for the first time, at first she didn't want it and then she understood what it was for, she didn't drink anything out of it, but we are working on it.  And yesterday she got her first ponytail courtesy of Miss Lindsey at school.  She looked adorable with that little pony on the top of her head.  Guess it is pony tails from here on out for her!! 

Testing out her sippy cup.

Pony Tail!!

And finally, we ran........  We ran far...........  Today we did the P.F. Changs Half Marathon!!  We ran 13.1 miles.  I am so super proud of us.  We got up early and the 3 of us (Matt, my Dad and me) headed down to Tempe to get ready for the race.  It was so exciting being down there.  I am not going to lie, at one point before we started I got really upset because I got scared not knowing if I would be able to do it since the farthest we had ran up until today was 10 miles.  But thankfully, both Matt and my Dad were there encouraging me telling me I could do it.  It took about 40 minutes from when the race started for us to actually cross the start line and then we were off.  We did pretty great!!  We ran about the first 3 miles without walking and were feeling great.  We walked a couple of times throughout the rest of the race, but ran a majority of it.  We completed the run in 2:54.27seconds.  We were feeling pretty tired and then we saw our fan club waiting for us right after the 20K.  It was so great to see my Mom, Tatum, Camdyn, Butch, Adam, Jenny and Kehoe cheering us on!!  It was so awesome having them come out and be there for us, we really do have the best family and friends!!  It felt so awesome crossing that finish line.  We were getting close to it and I started getting pretty choked up because I was so proud of us for accomplishing our goal!!  I am so excited that we did it and the 3 of us did it together.  Now I really want to do a Disney half marathon because the medals are just so darn pretty!!

Tatum made us a sign to cheer us on!!

20K mark

I was so excited to see everyone (and to be almost done)

WE DID IT!!

2012 Here We Are

2012- Here we are and we are ready for a great year!!

On Friday I got a call from the girls school that Tatum had broken out in hives during her nap.  Not sure what caused it, but they were there.  So I was off and on my way to pick up the girls.  About 10 minutes later I got a call that Camdyn had woken up from her nap with a 103.6 fever.  Not good.  So I started rushing even more and got there as fast as I could.  I picked up the girls and got them home and was on the phone talking to the doctor about what we should do.  I gave Tatum some benedryl and she seemed to be fine pretty quickly, she just needed some cuddling time.  Camdyn of course still had a high fever so I gave her motrin and tylenol and a bath trying to get her to cool off.  Her temp remained high throughout the next day and we were just rotating the motrin and tylenol trying to keep it down.  Turns out the cause of her fever..... 2 new teeth coming through!!  Camdyn's 2 top front teeth are starting to make an appearance in her cute little grin.  She has had a few rough nights of sleep, but we are so glad that the fever was the result of teeth and nothing much more!!

Camdyn Breeze is now 11 months old!!  Where have the last 11 months gone?!?!  She really is so amazing and we love her so much!!  I have started planning her birthday party, getting so excited for it!!  It won't be anything huge or over the top, but I can't wait to watch her open her presents and dive into that cake!!

We rung in the new year with our best friends and had a great time.  Matt had to work on New Years Eve so the girls and I had planned to go out to dinner with some friends, but when you have kids plans change quickly and that was definitely the case this weekend, with all that was going on with the girls.  So the girls and I had a night at home, relaxing and playing and watching movies.  Matt got home about 10:30, and our amazing friends came over after dinner to ring in the new year with us!!  It was so great to have the Veeh's, the Kehoe's and the Nissen's at our home.  We played games and watched the Times Square Ball drop and then played a game of Gin (Matt's favorite) to end our evening.  It was a great way to spend the first part of 2012!!

January 1, we got up and got outside for a nice 9 mile run.  It is getting so super close to the race we cannot believe it is almost here!!  We went and ran along a canal that has a paved area next to it, and it worked out really well.  It was hotter on Sunday than it has been so it was tough running, but we did it.  We have a 10 mile run this coming weekend and then the following week it is race day - Can't wait!!

Gramma and Grampa are driving out to Arizona as we speak.  Grampa officially retired on Friday and they are headed here for a few months.  We are so super excited to have them here and to get to see them more often.  I know they are going to love the reitred life for sure, many adventures ahead for them!!

Here's to a great 2012, we can't wait to see what fun this year brings!!

End of 2011

What an incredible year we have had!! 

2011 - Hightlights: Camdyn was born, our sweet nephew Holden was born (the same day), we moved into our house, my forever sister Kristin came to visit, we had a week-long family trip to Nashville, I went back to work and the girls started school, Matt turned 30 and we went to Vegas, we went to San Diego twice, Tatum started dance class, Matt had a wonderful time on the annual Kahler men Wisconsin fishing trip, we started training for the half marathon, my brother came for a visit, we went to Disneyland (Amazing), and Tatum turned 3!!!  Just a few of our fun memories from 2011, I am sure I could write forever on everything in 2011 that was awesome, but I will just say that we loved our year!!

Camdyn Breeze Kahler ~ Born: 2/4/11

First breakfast in our New Home

Visit to Nashville

Meeting Holden Edward

San Diego

Las Vegas for Matt's 30th Birthday

San Diego Again

Tatum all ready for her First Dance Class

Visit from my brother Michael

Tatum is 3!!

Disneyland!!!!

Camdyn Breeze was born in February and she has made our smiles brighter every day.  We don't even remember what life was like with just the 3 of us.  Having Camdyn in our family makes us so complete and we are so blessed that she is ours.  Camdyn had a wonderful year.  She is now attempting to stand on her own (she has done it a few times for about 2 seconds) and loves walking with help (especially from her Big Sister).  Watching Camdyn walk all over the house with her walker is hilarious, she is definitely a speedwalker and doesn't let anything get in her way!! Camdyn has started crawling on her hands and feet instead of using her knees, she is one step closer to walking on her own!!  She has 4 teeth, all on the bottom row and her smile is one of the cutest I have ever seen.  Camdyn just had her ears checked and they are both perfect with the tubes perfectly in place.  We are excited that she is starting 2012 off with perfect ears, we sure are hoping they stay that way for a while.  Camdyn sleeps through most nights in her own room.  Once in a while she likes to have a party in the middle of the night, but she sleeps through more often that not, which we are so thankful for.  Camdyn is still obsessed with her binky, she takes that thing in and out of her mouth like a pro.  Camdyn loves school and her teachers {especially Miss Lindsey :)}, we are so thankful for the wonderful women who take care of our girls each day, they truly are amazing!!  We cannot believe how fast this year has flown and how much Camdyn has grown, she is going to be 1 before we know it!! (good thing the party planning has already begun!!)

Tatum Ann had quite the year as well.  She became a big sister, which was definitely the highlight for her.  I know I say it often, but Tatum has so much love for Camdyn and is so sweet to her, truly the best big sister ever!!  Tatum loves to play and run and spends so much time doing both.  Her vocabulary is so big and she is learning more words every day (in English and Spanish too).  I love having long conversations with her about her day and her life.  Tatum is quite the entertainer, she loves her dance class.  She has so much fun doing all her moves and her smile never stops while she is dancing.  I love that she likes it so much, it makes me so proud to see her doing something that meant so much to me growing up.  Hopefully she wants to dance forever, for now we will take it one recital at a time :).  Tatum knows her shapes and some letters and she can trace her name.  She knows how to spell her name out loud, but we are working on writing it without tracing.  Tatum loves to read. She is always "reading" books to Camdyn and to her dolls.  Maybe we have a future teacher in her??  Tatum has a blast at school each day and loves her teachers too.  She loves talking about all her friends and who did what each day.  I hope our daily chats continue on forever, they mean so much to me!!  Tatum is so wonderful and we are so proud of her, she is such an amazing 3 year old and I can't believe how grown up she has become this year!!

We love to laugh.  Laughing is our favorite thing.  Daily laugh sessions in our house are a must!!  It is definitely our goal to keep up with the happiness that fills our home everyday in 2012!!

We are so lucky to have had such a great year and love looking back on it but we excited for 2012 to see what the year brings!!  Happy New Year!!

Our Very Merry Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas here at the Kahler house!!  We of course got some presents, but we also got some fantastic time as a family keeping up our traditions and enjoying every minute of it!!

On Friday night we took the girls to look at Christmas lights.  It was fun going back to neighborhoods that Matt and I had been to as kids with our families to look at lights.  We went to 2 neighborhoods that had really done up streets and then just drove around some too.  Tatum and Camdyn both had a great time.  They really loved the lights and there eyes were almost as bright as the lights were :).

Excited to go see lights!!

Saturday morning (Christmas Eve Day) we got up and got right into making our cookies for Santa.  This is the second year that we have made the recipe we did and they turned out great.  So very yummy!!  It was really fun that the 4 of us made the cookies and decorated them together.  Then we just curled up on the couch and watched a few Christmas movies as a family.  We had Matt's side of the family over for Christmas Eve dinner.  It was a nice relaxed evening.  The girls got to open their Christmas jammies that night and they both looked adorable of course!!  We put the food out for Santa and the Reindeer.  {Little story: we were at the grocery store getting everything we needed for our Christmas meals and I asked Tatum what Reindeer eat, she said she didn't know.  I told her I thought they ate carrots so we put some of those in our cart.  Then after a bit of shopping Tatum said, "Mommy, I think that Reindeers really like cheese".  I said oh you are right it is their favorite, so when the Reindeers came to our house they got carrots and cheese :)}.  Then we headed upstairs to get all tucked in tight so that Santa could bring some Christmas Magic!!

Time to bake cookies!!

Tatum is so awesome at cracking eggs!!

Camdyn loves baking

Tatum and Daddy rolling out the dough

Santa's cookie

Camdyn going for a stroll

Cute girl

So ready for Christmas!!

All ready for Santa

Christmas jammies!!

Our girls both slept until about 8:15 Christmas morning.  But as soon as they were up Tatum started talking about how she heard Santa in the night.  She said that she heard his Jingle Bells while he was bringing her presents.  So cute!!  Both our girls were adorable opening all of their gifts.  Camdyn had a blast on her first Christmas.  I have never heard Cam do so much squeeling.  She was honestly just so super excited about everything!! 

Reading the note Santa left the girls

Camdyn loving her stocking gifts

Tatum and her stocking

The girls and their gifts from Santa

Camdyn on her first Christmas

Daddy and his gifts from the girls

Presents everywhere!!

We spent the afternoon at Matt's parents, opening more gifts and having fun.  And then we headed over to Matt's Aunt and Uncles house for Christmas dinner and so much fun!! Instead of doing gifts for everyone we do a gift card exchange.  Every person brings a gift card and we each get to pick one at a time.  This year it was oldest to youngest.  Then after every person has one the fun begins.  We have to roll dice and if we land on a 6 we can steal someone else's card.  It is five minutes of laughter and craziness and it is so much fun.  After the gift card exchange we play minute to win it.  To us this is probably one of the best parts of our Christmas traditions.  It is so awesome to see what games we will have to play and how silly we can get.  More non-stop laughter!!  This year we played so many histerical games, even Tatum got to play some of them.  Matt and Andrew were the champions of this years Minute to Win it Madness!!

Cutest Santa Butt

Adorable

Playing with Auntie Emma

Tatum and Mommy

Marshmellow blow gun for minute to win it

{There are of course a whole lot of minute to win it pictures but we will keep those in the family :)}

We truly are so incredibly lucky and blessed with all that we have and we could not of asked for a better Christmas!!!!

Holiday Week!!

This week we got a special treat at both school and at dance.  Monday was holiday visitors week at Tatum's dance class.  Daddy, Camdyn, Nana, Papa and I all got to go in her classroom and watch her class and see her Christmas Dance to 'I want a hippopotamus for Christmas'.  It was so fun to be in there watching her and see how good she has gotten in the last 3 months.  Tatum was so proud of all she could do and she loved having us in there.  There was lots of clapping going on for all of the girls in the class!!  Tatum loved having Camdyn in there too, she kept saying Camdyn I am right here look at me and smiling so big.  So sweet!!

Starting off tapping at the bar

Time to put on some makeup :)

Train time

Flaps across the floor

Back flaps

Getting ready for her dance

Dancing!!

Time for Ballet Shoes

Rocking out!!

Having a Blast!!

Tatum, her teacher Ms. Peggy and her special cupcake

I was in charge of pictures and Matt was in charge of taking video.  We came prepared with 2 cameras of course :).  The videos are so super cute.  The first one is their Christmas dance and the second one is some dancing to Justin Beiber.  Now her class is all 2 and 3 year olds and when Justin Beiber comes on the girls absolutely love it.  It is so adorable to see them get down!!

Tonight was the show at the girls school.  It was titled "Holidays around the world".  Each class sung a different song about a different holiday.  Tatum's class sung 'Twinkle twinkle seven lights' (Kwanza).  It was very cute to watch the kids sing.  Some of the kids in her class knew the song very well and some not so well.  I think a lot of them were shy with all the parents watching.  Not sure how well Tatum knew the song, but it was adorable anyway :)

Camdyn was so excited to watch Tatum sing!!

It is SO MUCH FUN to see all that our girls do and I hope they both know how so very proud we are of both of them, they are just so amazing!!!