HI

So its been about seven thousand years since the old blogarino was updated. I'm noticing a very specific trend here. But once every seven thousand years isn't that bad. We have been busy since you last heard from us. Catie and I have been working hard and we have scheduled our sealing in the Anchorage Alaska temple on Dec. 26th 2009, luckily the temple will actually be open that day!! It just happens to be our two year anniversary! I can't believe two years is almost gone, it went so fast! In other news, we went and got enrolled in our classes for the january semester today, thats right I said "WE"! As of january I will officially be a student again, don't know why I didn't do that earlier. Catie will be finishing her degree in december of 2010, exactly one year before I do. Otherwise just the same old life stuff going on for us, which i always feel is more fun to read through pictures, so here you go.

Teething

HEY!
Remember when I said that Charli had the easiest teething ever, HERE?

Well wasn't that just peachy.


Charli has been teething for the last few days, and it has been pretty very not fun.
She's very cranky, irritable, sad, very picky about her food, not really drinking very much, and has a high fever.

Poor little lady. :(
I wish this wave of teeth would hurry up and poke through...
we can already see them, and feel them!

P.S. They're the two to the left and right of her two front top teeth!

My Mosaic

I also posted this on facebook, but I thought it was cool so I posted it here too.
Hope you don't mind!

The Questions (with my answers):

1. What is your first name? Catie
2. What is your favorite food? Cheetos
3. What is your favorite color? Pink
4. Favorite drink? Orange Soda
5. Dream vacation? Carribean
6. Favorite Hobby? Music
7. What you want to be when you grow up? a Mom
8. What do you love most in life? My Daughter
9. One word to describe you? Crazy

Just testing some stuff out...!

Here we are with the normal text, yay!

Here we are with the bold text! yay!

Here we are with the italisized text! yay!

Here we are with the underlined text! yay!

You like?

One Year Anniversary!!

Well, I missed the actual date, but as of August 19th I have been family blogging for one whole year!
Crazy, no?

This year has seen our family through some crazy times, to say the least.
We went from having a brand new baby in our home, to having a rampaging toddler destroying our home.
We moved from Alaska to Oregon, then from Oregon to Oklahoma a few months later.

So maybe I haven't been the most faithful blogger of all time, but I'll tell you that I was
SO THANKFUL
for this blog when our computer got stolen in Oregon, and we didn't have a backup copy of all of Charli's baby pictures.
I had posted quite a few of them on here (the cutest ones, obviously...) and on facebook, so I didn't lose them forever.

What I guess I mean is,
Dear Blog,
You mean so much to me. Thanks for sticking with our family through the good times and the rough times.
Even when I don't post on you, I still love you.
Love,
Catie
& The Bartlett Family

Aww! :)

Charli LOVES her teddy bear, which actually used to be Sam's when he was little. :)
She drags it around the living room, sleeps with it, and insists she have it whenever we get her up from bed or from a nap.
I love her. :)

Baeow is how she says Bear, it's so cute.

She actually has a fascination with balls lately, also. In fact, we were at Target yesterday, and you know how they have those big red balls outside the front doors?
Well when we were walking in and out, she wouldn't stop screaming "BALL! BALL! BALL! BALL!"
But then we got her out of the cart, and she wouldn't go up to them because they were too scary. haha.

She has also learned a new word..."Book".

BUT

she pronounces it "Butt". But we know it's book, because she only says it when she's reading one of her books.
Alas, my mature self can't help but giggle a little every time.

Words so far

Charli's List of Words So Far:

Baby (ba-bay)
Duck (duh-ack)
Bear (Bahw)
Dada
Mama
Ball (sounds a lot like Bear, but you know it's ball because she's usually holding a ball)
Hi!
OH!
Wow (waaaaaaaw)
OH WOW!
Bye-Bye
Banana (nah-nah-nah)
mmmMMMmm (only while she's eating, and she actually LIKES it!)
No! (This is my personal favorite...)
Diaper (Dai-doh)
and...
uh-oh (whenever she drops something. haha.)

That's pretty much all at 13 and a half months.
She's just learning SO FAST!

She's just a little smarty pants, isn't she?
haha.