October delights and more...

This past October marked the point of some happy happenings...

*Baby Lincoln Christopher Knight was born to the lovely Kym and Chris Knight on October 1, 2008.

*Sterling Celebrated his second Halloween in a classy costume representing A Chinese Ambassador for the Olympics.

It has been so fun seeing Sterling love Lincoln so much! Everytime he sees Lincoln he wants to kiss him, hold his cheeks, give him hug, and smother him with love. I hope to see this much love in March with Gwyneth.

One Girly Wirly on the way...

About 4 weeks ago Matt, Sterling, and I were happy to find out that baby number 2 would be a girl. The name we have pretty much decided on is Gwenyth, Gwyneth, Gweneth... well the name is set just not the spelling yet and the middle name is still undecided. We are all pretty excited and happy to welcome this little jewel to our family in March!

Here we go again!

Boy oh boy... when you haven't typed for a while it's hard to know what to say!

Anywho... I just wanted, I suppose, to announce is fun blogger fashion that Matt, Sterling, and I will be welcoming a new baby to our family hopefully in March. I'm 16 weeks along and doing quite well... working, being a mom, all that good stuff, and in about 2 weeks we will hopefully find out the sex of our future cutiepatooty. There.

Summer breeze drifting away....

Wow. This summer has come and is almost gone. I know I have neglected my blog due to lack of pictures but hey I thought it would be nice to update with something.

This summer has been quite eventful:

June:
I turned 25.
Sterling, Grandma Haas, Alicia, and I all went to Utah for a family reunion and more Utah/Idaho fun.

July:
Watched Fireworks at Grandma and Grandpa Caress' house.
Went swimming over at Grandma and Grandpa's house.
Found out some exciting news on a personal note.
Sterling and I have been frequenting the gym.

August:
Got a new role at work.
More working out at the gym...

Oh and it's nice to be at home and just be a mom... fixing meals, playing outside, singing songs, doing laundry. That's fine living. =)

lost in space

Sorry But I've lost the usb cord to connect to the computer... So I guess I'm done blogging for a while.

SKI week happenings...

Ski week was, yet again, another fabulous vacation to just be a mom, have fun, and get stuff done.

Some of the week's festivities included:

• Working out at the gym and walking ( 5 days!!)
• Playing at a couple different parks... and Sterling can now climb up the stairs and go down the slide all by himself!
• Made mud in the backyard Sterling was soak head to toe with water and muddy on his lower half. (probably one of my favorite things of the whole week).
• Went on a shopping adventure to Cabazon with my mom, niece Alicia, and stud Sterling...thanks mom.
• Visited Matt at the Street fair... I won tickets to a car show off the radio but decided to hang out with Matt, Auntie Kym, and Ster boy for most of the day. Oh and had yummy lunch with my Mom and Dad.

All in all it was a super week. It makes me look forward even more to the summer. Swimming pool here we come... even if it is a blow up=) !

One lovely Valentine's Day

I can't believe this is Matt and my 5th Valentine's together.
1st year Kobe's and Disneyland (all in one day mind you, and it was one of our first realish dates)

2nd year it was Arnold Palmers (putting was fun)

3rd My year to plan ( we take turns every other year) Tommy Bahama's and a night of island inspired loveliness

4th Matt's year with the Falls (and our dinner guests included Kym and Chris)

5th and finally this year was A day filled with flowers and love.
-I got flowers from my dad sent to my work... a beautiful orchid
-Matt came into work and brought a dozen red roses.
-Then later in the evening, with the kindness of my mom to watch Sterling for an hour, Matt and I enjoyed a lovely sit-down-by-ourselves dinner at one of my favorite food purveyors... In-n-Out. It was great. I got a cheeseburger animal style, chocolate shake, fries, and matt had two cheeseburger (spread only), fries and a drink. It was a fun date... then we bopped around Fresh & Easy to find some scrumptous desserts. I had a chocolate lava cake and Matt had chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream by Ben and Jerry's.
And the rest of the night... well that's just not appropriate to say on the blog but that was great too!
I hope everyone else had a super Valentine's Day.

So Much to LOVE...

I have so much to be thankful for that I Love...Here's a short list:

1. My husband
2. My Sterling boyser woyser
3. My job
4. The gospel
5. Classical music (I'm listening to the soundtrack to The Last of theMohicans)
6. Nice people
7. A home to live in and a car to drive
8. The gym
9. Family
10. Food to eat
11. Valentine's Day!

Happy love day everyone!

The survey

1. What is your middle name? Micheal, just like my dad and sister.

2. Favorite item of clothing? My black yoga pants Kym gave me... and a pair of blue jeans my sister gave me.

3. What color is your bathroom? Whitish

4. Favorite brand of clothing? I really like those down east long shirts...

5. Four places I have lived:

1. La Quinta

2. Moreno Valley

3. Bermuda Dunes + Indio

4. Thermal.

6. Four places I have been (other than where I lived):

1. Utah

2. San Felipe

3. Hawaii

4. San Fransisco

23.7. Favorite City to visit that I’ve already been to?

Deweyville, Utah... it's like another world. =)

8. If you could go anywhere in the world for a vacation, where would you go? Ireland, Scotland, Germany, then London.

9. Where would you retire? Anywhere with my Hubby.

10. Most memorable birthday? 21st I suppose... The bday just a little before I got married. Busy time.

11. When is your birthday? June 21... the first day of summer!

12. What did you want to be when you were little? An animal doctor (atleast that's what I remember writing down a bunch).

13. What is your favorite flower? Tulips and Poppies

14. What was the last thing you ate? Hot dog at the street fair.

15. Do you wish on stars? I use to... I guess I should start again.

16. What is your pet peeve? snow bird drivers.

17. Four of my favorite restaurants:

Tooties ( Texas BBQ) That is Matt and my equivalent of Cheers.

In-in-out ( always great animal style burgers and their chocolate shakes are so yummy)

Sullivans ( it was the first fancy steak place I had ever been: the fish was fabulous)

Kobe steak house ( I love almost all things Japanese and who doesn't like entertainment while you eat).

18. Siblings? 1 sister

19. Favorite day of the year? June 21 (I'm out of school, I get to be with my family, and it's my bday!)

20. Favorite day of the week? Sunday

21. Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. Lifeguard

2.Swim instructor

3.Intern for Time Warner

4. Preschool teacher

22. Four of my favorite foods:

1. Huevos Rancheros ( Christmas Morning)

2. Almost any yummy pasta ( GO CARBS!)

3. Salsa Soup that Grandma Caress showed me how to make

4. Broccoli Cheese Soup.

23. Favorite ice cream flavor?

Chocolate

24. Four TV shows I watch: Well we don't have cable ... but I manage to see...

1. Biggest loser

2. Friday Night Lights

3. American Gladiators ( oooooh yesss)

4. Ace of Cakes

25. Last movie you watched?

At the Theater... P.S. I love you ( I loved it)

on video... Hoosiers

on DVD... Lean on Me.

26. Do you have kids? Yep, One Fabulous Sterling boy.

27. Do you think you are strong? I did up my weight on bicep curls!!!! I love the gym.

28. Last person you talked to on the phone? Matt.

29. Four things I look forward to in the next year:

1. Summer break

2. Exercising

3. Babies being born

4. Being married for 4 years.

Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas 2007! The following is a bunch o' pictures to capture the events and feelings behind Christmas... Christmas eve at Grandma and Grandpa Haas' house, Christmas morning at our house and a little from Grandma and Grandpa Caress' House.

Happy Birthday Matt!

Happy 27th Birthday Matty!!!

Sterling sporting a mohawk for his dad's b-day bash.

Matt and Chris putting around before the birthday festivities held at Kym and Chris' House.

But seriously...
Why is Matt so Fabulous??

1. He's dead sexy.

2. He's a good wrestler.

3. He's a hard worker.

4. He's a good husband and dad.

5. He has more energy than the energizer bunny.

We love you Matt!!!

Muy Yummy Tamales!

OOOOLLLLE'

Smoochie Smoochie!

Kymmy Boo and Chrissy Poo bopping around the Tamale Festival.

Sterling catching a ride on mom while she eats a cheesy piece of fry bread.

Did I mention it was cold and the only thing we had close to mittens were extra socks?!

One cozy car ride.

One cute family picture.


Yeah, now I'm blogging December!!! The Tamale Festival in down town Indio was a blast as usual. We ate our way around the whole thing and I can't even begin to count up how many that was exactly

Some winter break adventures

Winter fun at the Living Desert. I think this is from Winter break. Sterling, Grandma Haas, and I went on a desert adventure by playing with goats, seeing butterflies, playing on spider webs, and of course checking out those big 'ol giraffes. We stayed for a couple hours and had a blast and Sterling's favorite part was the gecko gulch ( by far).

Spider Ster Spider Ster... does what ever a Spider Ster does!

Grandma!

Being one and Thanksgiving fun.

It seems as though Sterling went from baby to little boy overnight.

Heeeeyyyy!
Sterling and dad on Thanksgiving day.

What a spread. The food was super yummy to say the least.

Better Late Than Never

Happy Birthday Sterling Boy!!!!!

So I know I haven't updated in ooohh, about....three months but I found a second.

To your left is a picture of a big ol' 1 year old!