While I'm editing the Oregon video, here's a little taste of Avery showing us how smart she's getting!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
A Quick Recap
This past week we had an amazing time in Oregon seeing my mom, Rog, and all the extended family! Stay tuned for some video and pictures of our time with everyone.
In other news, .please be praying for Haley and I as we embark on the continuous crazy lives we live! Haley is very busy with Children's and is adjusting to life with the swing shift accordingly and I have a couple auditions in the next few weeks as well. Let's pray for God's discernment and strength!
Love to you all...
In other news, .please be praying for Haley and I as we embark on the continuous crazy lives we live! Haley is very busy with Children's and is adjusting to life with the swing shift accordingly and I have a couple auditions in the next few weeks as well. Let's pray for God's discernment and strength!
Love to you all...
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Back Home
It has been quite the change for us!! But enjoying the places Haley and I have grown up, while also sharing them with Avery has been great. Though she doesn't quite like Pete's cayenne yet, ;). We're moving into new routines and working on continuing our crazy life changes, so enjoy this video on some of the things we've been doing most!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Christmas Video!
Hey guys! We're alive and well living it up in norcal! we finally got a christmas video together...enjoy!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Happy Holidays!
Christmas and new years has come and gone...crazy! We had an absolutely amazing holiday experience this past year...we made it up to norcal where we got to spend time with all of our siblings and some of our parents. Avery absolutely had a blast hanging out with all of our family which makes us very excited for the future of living up there (wow, not even so much the future anymore, tha day after tomorrow!!!) Avery had an amazing Christmas, with each present she ripped open she said, "oh wow!" which made her so enjoyable to watch. Despite the fact that we don't have pictures, she had an amazing time playing with her cousins (around her age) on Christmas Eve where they spent time sharing toys, giggling, and slamming doors:) Avery got so many toys that, while she opened them all, we're putting some away for the next few months at which point we'll bring them back out and she'll be excited about them once again:)
New years was great as well, Haley worked that day but got off early and surprised Andy by coming home to him early with a new phone for him. His service went well and we had a quiet night where we watched the 3rd movie in the twilight series, then snuck upstairs to wake up the baby to watch the ball drop. We all 3 shared the new years excitement together including snuggling and kisses between us all, Avery clutching Bob and ferociously sucking on her nuk wondering what was going on while us grown-ups had a few sips of champagne. We then put Avery back down and quickly went to bed. It was wonderful.
Here are some pictures from the events:
the adults with our stockings!
Opening presents Christmas Eve (this is legos from uncle brother and auntie eshmay)
Avery looking at her uncle saying, "help me!"
Coming down the stairs to see what Santa brought!
She didn't stop playing with it for 3 days, thank you grandpa and grandma kitty!:)
She had to play with raggedy anne and andy right away, thanks nana and papa!
Reading her new favorite book from Grammy and grandpa rog...
playing with her new stroller, she loves it!
we decided only a grandma would cuddle with her without a diaper on:)
New years was great as well, Haley worked that day but got off early and surprised Andy by coming home to him early with a new phone for him. His service went well and we had a quiet night where we watched the 3rd movie in the twilight series, then snuck upstairs to wake up the baby to watch the ball drop. We all 3 shared the new years excitement together including snuggling and kisses between us all, Avery clutching Bob and ferociously sucking on her nuk wondering what was going on while us grown-ups had a few sips of champagne. We then put Avery back down and quickly went to bed. It was wonderful.
Here are some pictures from the events:
the adults with our stockings!
Opening presents Christmas Eve (this is legos from uncle brother and auntie eshmay)
Avery looking at her uncle saying, "help me!"
Coming down the stairs to see what Santa brought!
She didn't stop playing with it for 3 days, thank you grandpa and grandma kitty!:)
She had to play with raggedy anne and andy right away, thanks nana and papa!
Reading her new favorite book from Grammy and grandpa rog...
playing with her new stroller, she loves it!
we decided only a grandma would cuddle with her without a diaper on:)
Thursday, December 23, 2010
The Plan...
Okay...this is going to be a big one people!!! Drum roll please..............................................as of Jan. 4th (well that's the plan) we will be residents of northern CA! ahhhhhhh! It's a very exciting adventure for the Koning 3 although we're starting to realize all of the people (that have become family) that we're leaving behind and just how sad that is, not to mention leaving behind Haley's CHOC family which will be VERY difficult. So here's the information that we know as of now:
-Haley got a job at Children's Hospital in Oakland (from now on will be referred to as "Children's") where she will be working four 8 hour "PM" shifts (3:00pm-11:30pm) including every other weekend. She will be doing the exact same thing that she does at CHOC as an RN on the pediatric hematology/oncology floor (working with kids that have blood disorders and cancer)
-Andy's last day at BellOne will be Jan. 2nd
-Haley's last day at CHOC will be Jan. 3rd (followed by a goodbye party for Haley's work people at El Torito:)
-ATTN ALL SOCAL PEOPLE: because everything is happening so fast, Jan. 1st and 2nd will be a "come see the Koning's and help pack a box) 2 day party; we're hoping that all of our friends and "family" will be able to stop by to bid us farewell (look for a party invite on facebook)
-Haley will then work her last day on Monday the 3rd (while everything is packed into the U-haul at home) and we'll be driving up a U-haul as well as both of our cars on Tuesday the 4th. The U-haul will go straight to Sacramento to a wherehouse owned by the Pratt's where all of our stuff will be stored and we'll just be moving in clothes to the Pratt's house where we are TEMPORARILY staying:)
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
-we will definitely need help packing everything up as it's all happening sooooooo fast. Like we said before, we're hoping to hit it hard and packing everything up in 2 days so the more the merrier!
-put the word out in the Bay Area: we're definitely looking forward to living with the parentals but know that it will be a tight space, we will be looking for a little place to rent after we kind of figure out what our lives will look like up north, in our heads a guest house de-tached from a house type thing sounds perfect.
-entertaining our child: our child will be making the move quite difficult as she's a mover and a shaker so if you're around and not into packing boxes maybe you could take her for a bike ride!:)
-prayers are always appreciated as we embark on this journey...we're very excited but also apprehensive at what the future holds, also prayers for Andy to get a job up north.
Sorry this is so long but I know a lot of you are detail people that want to know it all, so this is what we know right now! We'll keep you updated, and we're attaching some pictures of our outing to downtown disney where we took our Christmas Photos, some of them are pretty funny!
We realized at the beginning of the "photo shoot" that this would be difficult with the babes...she's definitely entering the "terrible twos" a little early...:(
She sure had on an amazing outfit though!
She unfortunately was always trying to run away...
The only way to get her to look at the camera and smile was to tickle her, which meant not all of us were looking at the camera...
We love this one, not sure why...probably because it shows the power that a 17month old can have...woof.
Thankfully we got a good one of the two of us out of the day!:)
Ha ha, for htose of you that know our child, you know she can eat, so we introduced candy!
She was finally happy...but as you can see solely focused on the food...
Needless to say although the one on our Christmas card (which hopefully all of you received) was not perfect, it was the best of the day as the Avester grows up and gets more and more attitude, we'll see how the pics go!:)
-Haley got a job at Children's Hospital in Oakland (from now on will be referred to as "Children's") where she will be working four 8 hour "PM" shifts (3:00pm-11:30pm) including every other weekend. She will be doing the exact same thing that she does at CHOC as an RN on the pediatric hematology/oncology floor (working with kids that have blood disorders and cancer)
-Andy's last day at BellOne will be Jan. 2nd
-Haley's last day at CHOC will be Jan. 3rd (followed by a goodbye party for Haley's work people at El Torito:)
-ATTN ALL SOCAL PEOPLE: because everything is happening so fast, Jan. 1st and 2nd will be a "come see the Koning's and help pack a box) 2 day party; we're hoping that all of our friends and "family" will be able to stop by to bid us farewell (look for a party invite on facebook)
-Haley will then work her last day on Monday the 3rd (while everything is packed into the U-haul at home) and we'll be driving up a U-haul as well as both of our cars on Tuesday the 4th. The U-haul will go straight to Sacramento to a wherehouse owned by the Pratt's where all of our stuff will be stored and we'll just be moving in clothes to the Pratt's house where we are TEMPORARILY staying:)
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
-we will definitely need help packing everything up as it's all happening sooooooo fast. Like we said before, we're hoping to hit it hard and packing everything up in 2 days so the more the merrier!
-put the word out in the Bay Area: we're definitely looking forward to living with the parentals but know that it will be a tight space, we will be looking for a little place to rent after we kind of figure out what our lives will look like up north, in our heads a guest house de-tached from a house type thing sounds perfect.
-entertaining our child: our child will be making the move quite difficult as she's a mover and a shaker so if you're around and not into packing boxes maybe you could take her for a bike ride!:)
-prayers are always appreciated as we embark on this journey...we're very excited but also apprehensive at what the future holds, also prayers for Andy to get a job up north.
Sorry this is so long but I know a lot of you are detail people that want to know it all, so this is what we know right now! We'll keep you updated, and we're attaching some pictures of our outing to downtown disney where we took our Christmas Photos, some of them are pretty funny!
We realized at the beginning of the "photo shoot" that this would be difficult with the babes...she's definitely entering the "terrible twos" a little early...:(
She sure had on an amazing outfit though!
She unfortunately was always trying to run away...
The only way to get her to look at the camera and smile was to tickle her, which meant not all of us were looking at the camera...
We love this one, not sure why...probably because it shows the power that a 17month old can have...woof.
Thankfully we got a good one of the two of us out of the day!:)
Ha ha, for htose of you that know our child, you know she can eat, so we introduced candy!
She was finally happy...but as you can see solely focused on the food...
Needless to say although the one on our Christmas card (which hopefully all of you received) was not perfect, it was the best of the day as the Avester grows up and gets more and more attitude, we'll see how the pics go!:)
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