Keolanani Kinghorn

So this is my first year making christmas cards. I figured since I have a really cute baby now that I couldn't deprive the world of her adorableness. I ordered a few different ones. Why you may ask? Because I have to be extra thrifty and all of the following cards I got for free, or just had to pay shipping for. How did I do it? Well my favorite site is Shutterfly.   They have a bunch of deals always going on including free photobooks, calendars, cards, etc... I order from them regularly. And then there is  tiny prints . I like their options for card layouts, but the printing was not as good as shutterfly and their shipping was ridiculous. $11 for 10 cards and envelopes. My last card was ordered from  CardStore . This one was my favorite. They had a deal going where not only was the card free, but shipping was and they labeled the cards for free (neither of the other deals did that). Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of it here. I'll post it w...

Winter is here! And in full force. Phil blames it on me. Supposedly, on the day it started snowing I sang Let It Snow and then it did . :-) Since this is my first real winter (I'm told that an Arizona winter doesn't count), I have been taking it all in: the beauty, the unbearable cold, the shivering, being able to see my breath whenever I walk outside. While experiencing all of this I've learned a few things as a first timer... 1. Don't walk around with slippers (a.k.a. flip flops) in the snow or slush. Not only do your toes freeze, but your pants get soaked and you get pretty miserable quickly. 2. Don't walk under trees with snow in them: they like to wait until you're under them to drop heaps of snow on. 3. Don't park your car under a tree while its snowing pretty hard.  This could happen... luckily it didn't happen to me but I saw loads of people it did happen to. (Photo taken from http://awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.com/2011/10/pa...

On October 27th my baby girl turned 6-months old. Can you believe that? I can't! She has become quite the sitter and can stand with assistance, but is not quite mobile yet. She has the strength to crawl but just isn't interested. She has only rolled over once by herself and that was at about five and a half months. Oh well. I'm content to just snuggle with her and give her kisses. Here is a look at how much she has grown... Well first of all, EMMA HAS TEETH! Two of them. They popped up at the same time on the bottom. They came at 4 months. Goodness. I wasn't ready. Since then, I've been bitten more times then I care to admit, but with the coming of teeth comes a need to gnaw on things. I decided it would soon be time to give her something else to chew on. I started giving her rice cereal just after she turned five months, but she got pretty constipated. I had to give her some prune juice to help her poo. After that episode, w...