Our New Blog!!

Hello family and friends! We have finally created a "family blog." I (emily) have 2 other blogs, but you need an account yourself in order to view it, so I didn't really think that was fair and we want everyone to be able to keep updated on our family....since we've added one more to the family.

Many know that we welcomed our daughter Allison Ann Palmer into the family on Friday Oct. 13, 2006 (yea i know friday the 13th, isn't that so cool!?!?) She weighed in at 7lbs 10oz. and measured 20 inches long!!! She has blonde, curly hair and of course blue eyes (which mom(me) hopes they stay blue, daddy has brown eyes) She looks like her father!!! So much, I'll try to attach a photo of Chuck (my hubby) of when he was a child and I'll let you guys decide!!! Anyways, her blonde hair, she really gets from both of us, along with it being curly. Chuck and I both had blonde curly hair when we were little. now we both have brown hair, mine is still curly..YAH! and chuck keeps his hair cut short so you can't tell that he had curly hair, but when it starts getting long it'll curl at the ends! So she looks a lot like her father, a lot of his facial features. But everyone is saying that she has her mommy's long legs, long fingers/toes and....BIG FEET!!! Which is so cool, maybe an up and coming basketball/volleyball player? how about piano? trombone? violin? Whatever she chooses will be great! Daddy is hoping for a hockey player?!?!? yikes!

Allison is almost a month old. Monday will be her 1 month birthday! She had her 2 week appointment back on the 27th of October. She grew 1 1/2 inches so that made it 21 1/2 inches and weighed in at 8lbs and 9 oz. So almost a full pound gain. I was taking some pictures just the other day and decided to take a picture of Allison next to her caterpillar. It's a really cool toy, has different colors and textures, and is stuffed with different things so that it will make different sounds when she plays with it. Anywho, on the tummy of the caterpillar it's a measuring "stick" in some sort, so i decided to measure Allison....she's at 24 inches!! She is gonna be one tall girl (so mommy hopes).

I can't believe how time has flown by. All the traveling we did after she was born probably helped out a bit. This month we are planning on staying home (in kansas city) a bit more and having the grandparents come down to visit us, since in December (for the holidays) we will be doing quite a bit of traveling, as we have a little over a week of vacation to use! Which is exciting, b/c most of the time when we travel home(iowa) we are rushing to see everyone and make everyone happy, which is stressful on us, not to mention stressful on our wallet, although gas prices have dropped quite dramatically since last Christmas.

Christmas will be so much fun this year, not saying that it hasn't years previous, it's just that we have this new little bundle of joy we want to share with our families. Plus, Christmas at Grandma Whites (my grandma) will be such a full house, as I hear that pretty much everyone will be home and my cousin Jeremy and his wife Lorena also welcomed the arrival of a baby girl in June, Mackenzie Joy (i think that's her middle name). They live out on the east coast so they aren't home too much, so it will be just great seeing them and getting some pictures of the 2 new babies together!

Just thought of another thing to write about. Allison was baptized this past Sunday...the 5th of November. She was baptized at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Raymore, MO by Pastor Jerry. It was so amazing!! Witnessing such an awesome thing! I don't think I've ever witnessed a baptism before and if I have, I was probably too young to want to "pay attention." Brought tears to my eyes (happy and joyful tears) to see my baby girl being "Given to the Lord."

1 Samuel 1:27-28 Reads: "I prayed for this child, and the Lord answered my prayer and gave him(her) to me. Now, I give him(her) back to the Lord. (S)he will belong to the Lord all his(her) life."

So we had our families come down, my parents came down from Akron along with my sister Katie, Grandma White and Grandma Heisterkamp. Chuck's mom from Fonda came down too.
Also my brother Jon and his wife came over from St. Louis, they are Allison's sponsors. Oh and our good friend Allison Snyder from the Storm Lake area along with my cousin Doug came down too. Allison is Allison's Sponsor/Godmother. yes this is who we named Allison after. Then Chuck's dad and his family live down here in raymore too so they came also!
It was such a fun day! Being able to see our families get together again! Last time was at our wedding in Oct. 2005! It was also special to have Grandma White down too. We took a "generation" photo, one of Grandma, Mom, Me and Allison. I was disappointed though b/c we didn't get one taken after the baptism at the Church. I'm disappointed b/c the Baptismal Gown that Allison wore, is the one that I wore when I was baptized and Grandma White made it! so that was pretty special! I'll try to post a photo later, for some reason it isn't letting me add the one that I want!!

Anyways, I think that's a good start for our first blog. Now to post some pictures? Hopefully I can figure that out! Until next time.....