1 year ago....

One year ago (on September 17, 2007 at 11:42pm!) I was blessed to become a mother. Dane Matthew Jorgensen was 9lbs 9oz of sweetness. I never knew how much I would love being a mother. The last 365 days have been the most fulfilling of my life.
50 things I love about Dane.
1. I love that he looks just like his daddy.
2. I love that he is chubby!
3. I love his little grunt. (he has been grunting since the day he was born!)
4. I love is red hair SO MUCH!! I don't think I will ever cut it!
5. I love that he never fit into newborn clothes!
6. I love that he is so sweet.
7. I love his tender heart.
8. He has the cutest cry face! It breaks my heart when he cries, but it also makes me smile!
9. I love that he has slept through the night since he was 2 months old.
10. When he is really excited he will slap you in the face! It kind of hurts!
11.Lately when he has a poopy diaper, he tries to take it off himself. Just get rid of it!
12. I love his sloppy kisses!
13. I loved nursing him. He would always play with my hair, stick his fingers in my mouth, or pull at my eye lashes!
14. When he is concentrating on something it seems like his cubby checks magically get even bigger!
15. I love that he reaches for me when I walk in the room.


16. I love that he loves people. He never cries around new people.
17. I love how he splashes in the bath. I'm soaked afterwards!
18. I love that when he is happy and laughing, his mouth is wide open.
19. I love his 8 little teeth.
20. I love that he loves cheese like his dad and ice cream like his mom!
21. I love how he stares at little kids in amazement. I think that he thinks they are weird because they are so small! (not realizing that he is even smaller!)
22. I think he is going to want a drum set. There is on in our office right now, if we give him a drumstick, he knows exactly what to do, and cries when we take him away.
23. If he hears the refridgerator open, he races in the kitchen so he can stand in the cool breeze.
24. I love that he laughes at me when I have a towel on my head.
25. I love that he stands at the window when all the kids are at the bus stop in the morning and just watches them until the bus leaves.
26. every day he pushes Scotts bottle of shaving cream into bath tub. He likes the loud sound that it makes!
27. I love how excited he gets to play with Scott. His favorite is the chasing game.
28. I love his deep belly laugh. He has always sounded like he has already hit puberty.
29. I love that he is so determined. If he sees an obstacle course he has to conquer it! He always does!
30. I love that he has tiger stripe birth marks like his dads on his back.
31. Nothing is cuter than a baby's bum!
32. I love that he is always swinging one or both of his legs.
33. I love that he dances when he hears music.
34. I love that he has my feet!
35. I love that he follows me all around the house.
36. I love that he pulls all of our socks out of the sock drawer.
37. I LOVE his raptor style laugh.
38. I love that he laughs at pictures of himself.
39. I love that he always grabs my finger or thumb when I am holding him.
40. He has a pink bunny that is really soft. He gets so happy when we give it to him. He usually gets rid of it 30 seconds later!
41. I love that he loves Scotts diaper changing song; "You hold your pants, and I'll do a dance, and we'll get you a FRESHY!"
42. I love how he chews food. I can't describe it, it's just cute!
42.When he was about 3 months old he would always look at our family pictures on the wall and laugh.
43. I love that he liked the womb so much that it took him 18 hours to say goodbye to it!
44. He loves this game where he grabs my toes and he looks at me and waits for me to say "that's mama's foot!"
45. I love that he has discovered that he has control over the volume of his voice.
46. He has the cutest little courtesy laugh.
47. I love how he loves to be tossed really high in the air.


48. He loves to play in dirt. But he really loves to eat it! He is such a boy!
49. I love that he is so curious.
50. He just recently learned how to turn the light on and off. He always reaches for the switch when I get him out of his crib.
I love that little guy so much! I can't believe a whole year has gone by!
Happy Birthday Boggie!

I did it!!!

Racer Number 972
Overall Place 308
Name Kara JORGENSEN
Home Town WASHINGTON UT USA
Actual Start 06:48:47.790
Gender Place 187
Age 27
Stop Time 09:14:10.480
total Time 02:25:22.69
Class Place 46
Pace 00:11:05.9
I did it! YAY! I am really proud of myself! I worked really hard! I had a goal to not stop and walk. I got pretty close to walking a few times but I never did!! I also had a goal to run the race in 2 1/2 hours, I beat that goal by 5 minutes!
Marathon Matt!!
I'm so proud of Matt!
He ran 26.2 miles. I know that he worked really hard. Right at the very end he started sprinting towards the finish line. I was really impressed. He was the one that got me to sign up for the half marathon. He was such an inspiration for me! Good job Matt! You are awesome!



The night before the race we went to eat at a nice resturant. It was a lot of fun...

Tagged!

My friend Melissa tagged me! I love these things!

A. ATTACHED OR SINGLE? Totally Attached
B. BEST FRIEND? Scott and my mom!
C. CAKE OR PIE? Ummm....how about ice cream!
D. DAY OF THE WEEK? Saturday!! The day of garage sales baby!
E. ESSENTIAL ITEMS? gum (For me), diapers (for Dane), and snacks (to keep scott happy!)
F. FAVORITE COLOR? purple
G. GUMMY BEARS OR WORMS? worms!
H. HOMETOWN? Blackfoot
I. INDULGENCE? Chocolate milk!, ice cream, smoothies, cupcakes from 25 main in St. george!
J. JANUARY OR JULY? July. There are so many things going on in July!
K. KIDS? Dane! The best kid on earth!
L. LIFE ISN'T COMPLETE WITHOUT? Scott, Dane and ice cream! (can you tell that I love ice cream?)
M. MARRIAGE DATE? 4 years, 8 months, 14 days!
N. NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS? 3 big brothers and one big sister. (by big I mean OLDER)
O. ORANGES OR APPLES? Oranges. Apples with peanut butter!
P. PHOBIAS OR FEARS? Boogers! Just typing the word scared me!
Q. QUOTE? The tall man gets rained on first -unknown (the meaning is also unknown!)
R. REASON TO SMILE? When Dane gets really excited, he'll slap you in the face!
S. SUPERMAN OR WONDER WOMEN? Super Scott!
T. TAG 5 PEOPLE? Korrine, Elyse, Shantel, Emily, and Dianna
U. UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME? You know those commercials from the late 80's early 90's that had a big list of degrees that you can earn at home. When I was eightish, I memorized one of those commercials word for word! I still know it! Ask me to recite it to you! It will blow you away!
V. VEGETABLES? Potatoes! What can I say! I grew up in the potato capital of the world!
W. WORST HABIT? Eating when I'm bored!
X-RAY OR ULTRASOUND? Knees X-rayed. Ultrasounds are the coolest!
Y. YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? ummmm......ICE CREAM!!!!
Z.zodIAC SIGN? Capricorn. That's right...a GOAT!

Veyo Outing!

Today we went to Veyo. It is a little town that has a lot of nature, and we needed to get out of the house! We went to a really shady place with a creek that had lots of crawdads. It was really fun!

Dane found a stick that kept him very occupied for a while!

Dane and me enjoying the water and shade!

Crawdads

There were a ton of crawdads in the stream. Scott was determined to catch some. He had some lunch meat and a bowl and he would lure them into to bowl!

It worked! (Of course it did! It was my idea!) He caught two!

All Tuckered Out!

It was way past Dane's afternoon nap. He was a little grumpy But......

He feel asleep right away! Party pooper!

Rock Star!

In April Scott was contacted by the producer of a company called Quikstar Productions that does a compilation CD every year called "Chill Out". He heard A song of Scott's and asked him if he would be a part of the CD. Of course Scott agreed! The CD includes various artists, and it is finally finished! You can purchase the song in 5 places! itunes.com, amazon.com, walmart.com, bestbuy.com and rhapsody.com. All you have to do is search Scott Jorgensen and buy the song! Scott is awesome!

Yancey Family Photo!

In July my family all got together at my parents house and had family pictures taken! They turned out great! It was a lot of fun!

We Have Lift OFF!

Scott is officially finished with helicopter school!! And the best part is that we NEVER have to pay for him to fly again! And it gets better!!! Now every time he flies he will be GETTING PAID!!
I am so proud of him! He has really worked his tail off for the last 18 months! At times he has been really stressed out, but I have never seen him so happy! (Except when he is playing with Dane!) I am so happy that he is able to do something that he loves! He always wanted to be a pilot, even when he was a little boy, but he forgot about that dream when his mom told him that pilots had to have perfect eye sight, which was true. The FAA changed that law some time ago and we found out that you can fly with contacts! That was all Scott had to hear! His dream came true with a lot of hard work! I love my pilot!
He starts his first day as a paid HELICOPTER PILOT on Monday!