dean and chelle: Beyonce's got nothin' on Kara...

Monday, December 7, 2009

Beyonce's got nothin' on Kara...

No, really, I think my heart is going to explode from how much I love my daughter.

My little Miss Kara Faith has just discovered dancing, and she looooooves to get her groove on. So much, in fact, that she falls over from shakin' her money maker too much...

3 comments:

Ashleigh said...: HAHA! Awe, that was cute. Oh Cara, you melt my heart!; December 8, 2009 at 6:30 AM
lisapants said...: TOO CUTE!! I can't believe she's almost a year old.; December 8, 2009 at 7:29 AM
Michelle said...: Love the video! Cute!!; December 16, 2009 at 4:51 PM

chelle's bucket list

1. Crochet a baby blanket

2. Buy something at a garage sale and sell it for 10 times more than I bought it for

3. Attend a gymnastics event at the Olympics

4. Kiss Dean on top of a mountain

5. Learn to be an amazing photographer

6. See a brilliant red/orange lava flow up close

7. Vacation in the Seychelles

8. Throw an Ugly Christmas Sweater party

9. Take a picture of each of my children holding a bouquet of 50 colorful balloons

10. Always pay a full tithe

11. Visit a ghost town and see a tumbleweed blow across the road while there

12. Stay in an ice hotel

13. Do 80 sit ups in 1 minute

14. Climb an indoor rock wall all the way to the top

15. Own one of those old photo booths that spits out a strip with 4 black and white pictures on it

16. Never say another swear word out loud (swear free since September 2009)

17. Visit the Holy Land

18. Make our wedding album

19. Go on a weeklong Alaskan cruise

20. Donate a foot of hair to Locks of Love

21. Be in Times Square in NYC for New Year’s Eve

22. See Les Miserables on Broadway

23. See Phantom of the Opera on Broadway

24. Take a couples dance class

25. Own an oceanfront beach house

26. Own our own successful chiropractic office

27. Stand on an iceberg

28. Be my children’s biggest supporter and advocate

29. Do the splits all the way

30. Slow dance to music outside with Dean in the middle of a raging thunderstorm in the Midwest

31. Be the answer to someone’s prayer

32. Get a beautiful huge bouquet of flowers from Pike’s Place Market just because

33. Stand somewhere that no one else has most likely ever stood before

34. Just once be at my Mom’s graveside at 4:55 a.m. on March 10^th

35. Own a 5^th wheel and travel around the USA in it over the course of 3 months

36. Go skinny dipping with Dean

37. Volunteer in an assisted living home or children’s hospital

38. Be able to wear my wedding ring again

39. Surprise Dean with a romantic getaway somewhere

40. Be in the Celestial Room at the temple with Dean and all our children there

41. Provide a fulfilling and loving environment for my children growing up

42. Overcome my fear of public speaking and speak in front of 1,000+ people at some sort of event

43. Stay in a romantic secluded mountain cabin and wake up to 2 feet of freshly fallen snow

44. Be at the temple sealings of each of our children

45. Take all of our kids to Disneyland

46. Walk on the Great Wall of China

47. Have a front yard with lots of different beautiful flowers growing all around it

48. Catch an Alaskan King Salmon and bake it

49. Have a room in our house where we have tons of Christmas lights strung across the ceiling and lit up year round

50. Have my home be a place where all who enter feel welcome, comfortable, and happy

51. Take a yoga class

52. Recreate our first date

53. Pay off Dean’s student loans

54. Be in the room or at least at the hospital for the birth of my grandbabies

55. Go on one of those loop the loop roller coasters where your legs are dangling into air beneath you

56. Go to Switzerland

57. Learn to play the piano

58. Attend a full weekend of General Conference in the conference center in Salt Lake

59. Read the entire Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price within 1 year

60. Weigh 150 pounds

61. Run a 5K without stopping

62. See our son go on a successful mission

63. Stay in a secluded beachfront cottage in Hawaii for 2 weeks

64. Stand on the equator

65. Sew my daughter’s matching dresses

66. Make and keep up on our Dean and chelle’s Life Together album

67. Get a breast reduction/lift after I’m all done having kids

68. Visit all 50 states-only 5 more states to go

69. Ride in a gondola in Venice

70. Randomly point to somewhere on a world map with my eyes closed and go visit there

71. Swim under a beautiful waterfall with Dean and make out with him there

72. Have a hammock strung between 2 trees in our backyard and read a book cover to cover while laying in it

73. Take an art class, preferably a painting class

74. Make an annual family Christmas photo card and write an annual Christmas letter or poem

75. Stay in the Dornroschen room at Abendblume in Leavenworth

76. Put a message in a bottle and toss it in the ocean

77. Have Dean carve our initials into a tree somewhere special to us and take a picture of us next to it

78. Go 100 days without eating fast food once

79. Sew an amazingly beautiful quilt

80. Hold a loved one’s hand as they pass away from this life

81. See Aurora Borealis

82. Have a natural epidural free birth

83. Get laser hair removal on my upper lip

84. Do and complete a 365 day photo documentary project

85. Tell people what I like or admire or appreciate about them. Everyone deserves to hear something positive about themselves.

86. Go parasailing

87. Take our kids to Second Beach and go camping there

88. Have our family dress up as a common theme for Halloween

89. Visit all the temples in the world

90. Throw Dean a surprise birthday party

91. Swim with dolphins

92. Go on senior mission with Dean

93. Make and keep up on all of my kids’ baby/life books

94. Become fluent in another language

95. Learn to cake decorate

96. Take a picture of my kids running and laughing through a meadow full of flowers

97. Anonymously pay for someone’s large grocery bill at a store

98. Hide a bunch of love notes for Dean around a city with clues leading to the next one and finally end up at a romantic restaurant to have dinner

99. Live an honest and honorable life

100. Love fiercely and be loved fiercely

Monday, December 7, 2009

Beyonce's got nothin' on Kara...

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