GOOOOOO Dodgers, uh I mean Yankees :(

So, Kari and her family are big Yankees fans and since Abbey is not of age to make her own decisions about her sports team loyalties yet, I decided it would be okay to let her wear this Yankees outfit. Special Thanks to Scott and Kristina for picking out this wonderful hat and onesie.

Abbey telling her first story

Abbey is now starting to coo. Kari didn't know this was being taped and she's a little peeved I put it on. Kate taught her to say goo when you're trying to get your baby to talk. I guess it works. Thanks Aunt Kate.

Halloween 2009

Kari saw how to make this Octopus outfit on TV and thought Abbey would look adorable. And boy was she right. Kari is going as Octomom. (get it?)

We haven't even gone trick or treating yet and she's already tuckered out.

Thanks Grammy for her so scary halloween witch outfit.

Nursery Update

Here's an update on the Nursery. Kari's cousin has a vinyl printing biz and made us this vinyl writing for Abbey's room. Thanks so much Amy, we love it. (fyi, because her parents are freaks, Abbey has yet to spend one night in this room).

Here's a link to Amy's website if anyone is interested in getting some vinyl for your house.

http://wordsandwisdomvinyl.blogspot.com/

Happy One Month Day!!!

The paper says it all. Abbey and her first month birthday!

I know, I need to do better... but there's only like 3 people looking at this blog, so get off my back!!! :)

So i don't have any long winded cute stories right now, but i thought everyone looking at this blog could enjoy some lovely photos of abbey.

Thank you Lenore for the awsome beenie... Abbey loves it
I love this picture... Mom and Daughter, so cute.

Okay so Kari said i have to preface this by saying we only put that huge bow on her head as a joke. But it's such a cute picture i had to add it...

Abbey's Big Day

after what seemed like 9 years instead of 9 months, on August 29th at 6:39 am. our little girl was born. She weighed in at a whopping 6 pounds 7 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.

Welcome Abbey Jean Campbell.

What a trooper mom was. 9 months of pure sickness, and then 26 hours of labor and an epidural that didn't work and she still looks great.

What in the world did I just get myself into. ( a whole lot of not sleeping that's for sure)


look how small those are.



I was lucky enough to have my dad and brother kyle up that weekend from St. George to see Kurt play a football game up north.

And of course Aunt Jami loves her new little niece. I would have put pics of Bill and the gang but he didn't send me any of those pics. But just to let everyone know, they did come and support us too.

That says it all right there!!!

The Baby's Room fiasco

So I decided to paint the baby's room to make it look like a little girls room as we awaited our beautiful baby. For some reason I thought i'd do light green walls with a plaid accent wall. What was i thinking??? Here's a brief overview of the ordeal I went through.

so first had to measure the horizontal lines, and chalk line them straight. Then I started the taping process .

Taping finished, look at those super straight lines.

Then I started the painting process, reverting back to the old days making sure I colored between the lines.

Took off the tape and my heart stopped... I didn't realize that if you have textured walls the seal from the tape sucks, and that your paint will bleed the whole way across the wall. :(

Close up of the wall Bleed.

So Kari was reading online to help me fix the problem and came across a site that said if you have textured walls you can paint a clear coat over the tape and wall and that will cause a seal. Then paint your colors and remove the tape and you'll get a nice clean line.... so after i RETAPED the whole darn thing AGAIN... I did the clear coat, and when I removed the tape low and behold, a nice clean line.

the finished product. Oh yeah you guys were expecting to see a plaid wall weren't you? Well I really wanted to finish it, but I made an executvie decision knowing that if i did the vertical lines and it didn't work, i'd have to repaint the whole wall white again and start over. For those of you that know me, you know i'd never in a million years do that. So I decided to just let well enought alone and stick with a horizontal line accent wall.

the finished product with the crib, and curtains Kari did. (with help from shelley's mom.. thank you).