One Month

December 15th, 2012 :

Kendal one month old

 

  

 Anxiously awaiting Christmas. Checking my stocking everyday!!

One of Kendal's favorite Christmas songs:

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

 

You better watch out

 

You better not cry

 

Better not pout

 

I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town

 

And the winner is.......

And the winner of guess the time and date baby Gibson will be born....

Top 5

1. Grandma Joy Hopkins

2. Rose Crow

3. Mandy Call

4. Tara Thornburg

5. Ben Crow

 

WINNER: Grandma Joy Hopkins Guess: Date: 12-1-12  Time:12:00 pm

 

 

 

PRIZE: Cold Stone

 

 



 

 

 

Home!

She's finally home!!! After passing all the test at the hospital of eating consistently and gaining weight, Kendal is dismissed! Mom and dad are so excited and ready to bring her home. 

 

 

Snug as a little bug in her big girl car seat.

Such a good baby, she slept all the way home from the hospital.

Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving

 

This Thanksgiving we have much to be thankful for:

 



We are thankful for the blessing of life.  This new life came earlier than we expected but we are thankful for a beautiful baby girl.

 

Kendal Mae Gibson

Date of Birth: 11/15/12 at 10:11 pm

4 lbs. 11 oz.

16.5 inches

Everything is OK. (She already has the OK sign down!)

 

She just needs to eat consistently, gain weight and she will get to come home from the hospital.

 

The new addition to our family.

 

Deep in conversation with dad. (He says they are talking about politics and economics)

 

 

Getting her beauty sleep. (The post-turkey coma!!)

 

Have a Happy Thanksgiving from the Gibson's!!



The Nursery

The Nursery was completed before the Baby's debut. Hope she likes her room and sleeps all night in it!!!!

 

 

 Thanks to grandma for all her sewing skills and making the crib sheets, crib skirt, curtains and baby blanket.  Baby Gibson is so loved!

Thanks to everyone for all the gifts, clothes, books and baby supplies. We are going to need and use all of it and we are so blessed to have so many great friends and family in our lives. 

Seattle

Highlights from our recent trip to Seattle:

Eating Salmon while watching the sun set and looking at boats!!

Curtis eating a pancake and bacon CUPCAKE for breakfast.  My favorite was the caramel sea salt chocolate cupcake.

Seattle from the top of the Space Needle.

A view of the Seattle Yacht club from the Space Needle.

 

Space Needle from the ground

Noah- excited about his Birthday gift.

Baby Gibson

Now that I have been practicing my blogging skills onto the real reason for the blog.  We are expecting a baby girl!! She is due December 14th. The blog will be devoted to updated pictures of her.  I am hoping it will be the easiest way to keep a digital scrapbook for everyone to see without inundating your email inbox or Facebook activity feed.

July 22, 2012. Baby Girl Gibson 1/2 baked!

Celebration at BVI

In Celebration of Curtis Graduation it was time for a vacation. Of course we went to Curtis' favorite vacation spot and Kara's new favorite place. The British Virgin Islands.

Leaving the US, St. Thomas, on a ferry to pick up the boat.

 

1st stop Cooper Island!

Virgin Gorda from the top of the Island! Beautiful!

The Baths at Virgin Gorda

The Baths from above.

Joan and Roger. The life on Cow Wreck Beach.

Dinner! After a day on Cow Wreck Beach.

A Rainbow after a short afternoon shower.

Going back again soon!

Graduation

Day 2 of blogging, so far so good: Flash back to December of 2011. Curtis graduates from Wichita State University with his MBA. YAY!!! We are so excited for his accomplishments and the new free time that he will have.

Pre-graduation attire

Getting the official diploma.

The House

So I/we are starting a blog......something new. Kara is starting it but is hoping that Curtis will grow an interest.  But my one question about a blogging is where do you start? We have had so many exciting things happen in the last year and a half that I am going back track just a little to bring everyone up to speed and then continue moving full force ahead.
Here we go!! March 2011, we bought our 1st house. Mr. Wichita Real Estate and Researcher found a great deal (just what we were looking for) and it only have a few rooms with wall paper border but nothing that we couldn't handle. Here's the before and after photos of the projects we have been working on for the past 16 months.

Before the Gibson's....watch out here we come!

 Front Door: Over growth in the landscaping

Kitchen

Bedroom

Chiefs fan in the sport's bedroom

Sports bedroom

16 months later........................................

Curtis' new favorite hobby, yard work

After the Gibson's, a shovel and just a few blisters.

 The kitchen.....Kara's favorite room

Sailing bedroom......guest bedroom when you come for a visit!

Once a sports room, now an office, soon to be.........