Santa Baby

Tiff was singing "Santa Baby" while playing with McKinna and me the other night. Later on McKinna reprised the song and added a little hip action. We had to take video the second time she did it because I was laughing so hard the first time. Hope you enjoy this as much as we did.

Christmas McKinna

McKinna has been very excited about Christmas this year. She loves the Santa hat and stockings. The other day I was singing "Santa Baby" to her and Jeremy and ever since then she likes to put the hat on, put her hands on her hips and wiggle back and forth just singing "santa baby" over and over. She is so fun. The tree has been a little bit of a distraction for her this year. Last year she didn't take the ornaments off but this year she does. I think she likes to redecorate.

Very Pregnant

Well this is me at 34 weeks. I'm almost 36 weeks now and I'm so ready to have our baby here. Both because I want to be done and because I want to see his cute face. McKinna got to see him move the other day. I think it was the first time that she really understood that I had a baby in my belly. She puts her mouth to my belly and says "Hi Jamison Whata doing?" I'm excited to see how she does.

Sesame Street Fun

Jeremy won 4 tickets to Sesame Street Live on the radio. We took McKinna's friend Mya Oakes with us. The girls loved it. We got really good seats on the floor so the characters were really close. It was so fun for Jeremy and I too, mainly because the girls were so involved.

Our New Baby

We had our ultrasound today. The baby looks really healthy. The nurse asked me to come back in a couple weeks to get better shots of the heart and spine. The baby was really wiggly. We almost didn't see what the sex was because the cord was in the way and the baby didn't want to move its legs. The nurse was really sweet and told us she would look again after I saw my doctor. The second time the baby wasn't shy. We are having a little boy! We are really excited. McKinna said "yay it's a boy" (with daddy's help of course). She still is a little confused by it all, but she likes to say hi to my belly and asks the baby if he is sleeping.
We are going to name him Jamison Jeremy Love. We had a couple others picked out, but that seems to be the one we keep going back to. Anyway, we're really happy and now I feel like I can shop!

2 Year Old Pictures

We finally got around to getting McKinna her 2 year old pictures. We were really happy with how they turned out. I can say this because it's true, she is the most gorgeous girl on the earth.

McKinna is Potty Trained!!

The end of July I decided I was ready to train McKinna on the potty. She had been ready for a couple of months but I was having a lot of sickness with my pregnancy. We started on a wednesday and by Saturday she was telling me she had to go potty and by Sunday she wasn't having any accidents. It surprised the crap out of me because I expected a couple of weeks of accidents. I'm so proud of her and how well she did. My mom says not to expect all of my kids to be that easy. I will be grateful. Here's a pic with her new panties (which are too big, but they don't sell them in 24 month sizes for my skinny girl).

The Kuna Fire Story

Here is the article about the fire from the Kuna/Melba News. We received permission to post the article. We will try to get some pictures for the morbidly curious.

Originally published Aug. 1, 2007
Scott McIntosh
Kuna Melba News editor

Careless smoking is the likely cause of a fire that destroyed a Kuna
apartment, displaced 17 residents and sent one woman to the hospital
Saturday morning.
The fire, reported at 8:52 a.m., Saturday, July 28, at 855 White Barn
Road, started in a cardboard box of newspapers on the second-story
patio, said Kuna Fire Chief Doug Rosin.
Jeremy Love was asleep in the apartment next door on the second story
at 859 White Barn, when he heard people shouting and running down the
stairs then fuses popping in the fuse box.
He opened his front door to see thick black smoke.
“It was pretty scary,” said Love, a Micron worker who has lived in Kuna
for the past year with his wife and 16-month-old daughter. “It was
rolling black smoke when we got out.”
Love shouted to his wife to grab their baby and get out. “I wish I had
gotten my shoes, though,” said Love.
One woman, who lived in the apartment at 855 White Barn, was taken to
the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation. She was treated and
released. Two people who lived in the apartment with her declined to
comment.
The White Barn apartments are a group of nine fourplexes located next
to the Kuna Fire Station at the corner of Boise Street and Linder
Avenue. Kuna Fire Capt. John Charlton was sitting at the station’s
front desk facing the apartments when he saw the smoke. Kuna
firefighters began their response before the call even came into 911.
The apartment at 855 White Barn was destroyed, the apartment at 859
White Barn had considerable smoke damage, the first-floor apartment at
847 had major water damage, and the first-floor apartment at 851 was
virtually untouched, said Pete Trammell, who manages the property for
the building’s owner. Each of the nine buildings has a different owner,
Trammell said. He said on Monday that insurance investigators would
assess the situation and determine what to do with the building.
Tray Belveal, who lives at 815 White Barn in a neighboring fourplex,
was one of the first people to see the fire.
“I just came out to my back patio to have my coffee and there it was,”
Belveal said. “Whoa! I got my shoes on and came out here and started
banging on doors to get people out. It freaked me out. Two tours in
Iraq, and I’ve seen all the fire I want to see.”
Four adults and two children were in the upstairs apartment at the time
of the fire, Rosin said. One cat died in the fire.
Trammell said the White Barn apartments, all fourplexes, were built in
2001 and 2002. The four apartments in the building that burned were all
three-bedroom units and have smoke alarms that are connected, meaning
if one goes off, they all go off. Fire sprinklers were not required in
these buildings, Trammell said.
Trammell said the residents who live directly under the apartment that
burned were about to move in. The carpets had been cleaned on Thursday,
and the residents had just started moving in their furniture and some
boxes Friday night, just hours before the fire. One of the residents of
that apartment declined to comment.
Jeremy Love said any loss to his family’s belongings would be covered
by renter’s insurance. “Best 18 bucks I ever spent,” he said. His
family has relatives in Kuna and Jeremy expected to stay with them.
Sheri Russell of the Kuna Disaster Fund was at the scene of the fire
helping displaced residents.
In addition to two firefighting units from Kuna, including the
department’s new ladder truck that put out the fire from above,
Meridian Fire Department sent one unit to assist.

So, it's been a really long time.... We got "burned" out of Kuna in July 2007 thanks to someone using a box of newspapers as an ashtray. We are now in Nampa and Jeremy says we'll post the whole story later. In the meantime, here are some updated pics.

Here's our lovely family picture.

McKinna was storing grapes for the winter.

New Berets from Grandma (mahmaw) Rasmussen

Hayride at Linder Farms in Kuna.