UP UP AND AWAY!!!

Today I went to take Scott some dinner at work and he asked me if I wanted to go on a helicopter ride! I was so excited!! And scared! We only went for 30 minutes but it was awesome! At first I was really scared because they take the doors off the helicopter in the summer (it is still pretty hot down here!) I felt like I was going to fall out! There was nothing to hold on to! I just clasped my hands together and squeezed. It felt like we were going about 30 miles an hour, I asked scott how fast we were really going and he said 100 MPH!! We flew all around St. George and Scott showed me some really big houses and we flew over our house. It was neat to see what he sees every day. I felt so cool with the head set on. Scott is so cool!
My friend Melissa watched Dane for us. It was so cute to see him when we were landing! He was waving and pointing to the sky! I don't know if he understood what was going on, but it was cute anyway!
This isn't a picture of us flying, but it is the same helicopter! I didn't have my camera! Dang it!

Laughter

There is no better sound in the world than the laughter of a young child. I actually took this video a few months ago and totally forgot about it. It makes me cry with laughter! Note-Scott has some serious "hat-head"!

Birthday Party.

I was looking through all of our pictures and realized that there were a lot that I didn't post! Here are some fun pictures from Dane's Birthday.

This is Dane's very own birthday cake. Funfetti is my favorite flavor, and since I passed my sweet tooth onto Dane, I figured it was his favorite too!

We decided to strip him down to his diaper and put him on the kitchen floor so he could go as crazy as he wanted to!

YUMMY!

More Ghost Town

Ghost Town Adventure!

Matt and Katie came down last weekend to visit! We were so happy that they came, we needed some company. We went to see this ghost town called Grafton Scott knew about. It was really neat.

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!