The White Family

Whites in Seattle.... or not

2009-08-06T09:36:00.000-07:00

So we may not be the Whites in Seattle anymore... We are planning a September move to Calabasas California... thats 10 minutes south of Malibu for all you non cali people :)
We are so excited, and a little stressed..... A lot has happened this past month!
We found a great house and are currently working out all the details. Hopefully everything works out... we are trying to really listen and rely on God to show us where he wants us.
Here is a recent family pic as a visual update :)

picture update....

2009-06-25T20:19:00.001-07:00

Hotel Snob

2009-05-22T09:39:00.000-07:00

So another Blog that I follow was talking about camping and "roughing" it. I had a long argument with myself and realized that if I am being totally completely honest that "roughing" it to me... is a bad hotel. My husband has always called me a hotel snob, but I would always brush the comment off insisting that I was NOT. Well... I am. If a hotel smells funny, well.. I turn up my nose! I really am a Kimpton, Ritz loving type of gal. I mean after all who wouldnt be???

Are you a hotel snob??

The wedding

2009-05-22T09:34:00.000-07:00

So my best friend from High School got married. WOOOOHOOO!!! The wedding was absolutely beautiful, everything went off without a hitch... well except for the two of them getting hitched... badum chhhh....
It was so great to meet some of her friends that I entrusted her to during the college years. I have to say that I got the long end of the straw when she decided to move to Seattle. Now we get to spend the best part of life back in eachothers lives.
He HUSBAND John is great.. and its a little weird that we both married guys with the same name :) So like us...
Doesn't she look beautiful!!!!???

American Idol

2009-05-20T11:24:00.000-07:00

Ok so for those of you who know me, you know that I am not the biggest American Idol fan. Just never caught my attention. The past few seasons I would watch the competition on and off... never to upset if I missed a few episodes. Well, this season....all that has changed.
It was all I could do to keep from throwing my water bottle at the tv when they voted Alison off. The girl has got talent!!! So I decided that I was partially to blame since I never actually voted.
Last night was my first voting spree... over and over and over I dialed 1-866-436-5702, 04, and 06
Even convincing friends that were Adam fans... not to be. Hopefully we made a dent in the voting pool. I finally had to call it quits when my husband said "ok, um, I cant handle another beep from that freaking phone. Stop voting."
We will see tonight if the beeping paid off!!

Who did you vote for??

The winner...Twitter.

2009-05-20T11:22:00.000-07:00

Ok so I decided to go ahead and try out the Twitter phenomenon. I stuck with it for a couple weeks and to be completely honest.... I am addicted. It is so much better then I thought it would be. I still am not a "update my status every hour" user...but none the less it is on my every other day check list. Give it a shot... it is interesting to follow celebrities on there. You would be surprised what comes out of their twitters....

To TWITTER or not to twitter....

2009-04-18T11:08:00.001-07:00

Ok so I am sure that by now most, if not all of you have heard of "Twitter". I just dont get it. I am open to the idea though because in all honesty I was a Myspace junkie and didnt understand the need for Facebook... that is until now. Now I am a Facebook junkie and hardly ever check my former love...Myspace.
So what is the deal with Twitter... everyone seems to love it. Celebrities, Pastors, friends. Why have one more place that you have to update your "status"?
So what is your take on it? Are you a tweeter? Convince me.

Grosgrain: The Modern Pirate Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

2009-03-27T17:36:00.000-07:00

Grosgrain: The Modern Pirate Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

Pikes Place Market

2009-03-25T04:51:00.000-07:00

Our good friend Justin was in town over the last few days and on Sunday we went to Pikes Place for the first time since Olivia has been born. Lilli loved it! Olivia was all smiles as well :)

Sorry

2009-03-20T07:25:00.000-07:00

So Sorry. We have been very behind on keeping up with our blog...

A lot has gone on in the past few weeks.

Our good friend Kayla from St. Louis has visited us, and another good friend from STL, Justin, comes in this afternoon.

ALSO! Ashleys best friend from High School just moved to Seattle with her fiance. Totally Awesome.

Both girls are doing great. Lilli is still growing like weed, well they both are for that matter. She is still teething and that makes some days a little more difficult then others. Lilli and Ashley have started painting together at a ceramic painting place. Lilli totally loves it.

Olivia is getting SO big. She already weighs almost 10lbs. She has even roller over a few times!! WAAAY ahead of schedule.

Here are a few pictures to catch up.

Good Eater

2009-02-26T15:00:00.000-08:00

So we have been blessed with a good eater. No joke. This is a picture of Miss Lilli eating a raw, yes raw, green onion.

We only hope that Livi will be such an adventurous eater as well :)

Family of FOUR

2009-02-17T21:13:00.000-08:00

Well we are now a family of four...and here are some awesome pictures.

-Pics by Heather Mann Photography. Shes great!

Wedding Flashback

2009-02-16T18:59:00.000-08:00

So our good friends Faith and Jeremy Smith came and visited us the week before last. It was SO much fun. Seriously we could ask for better friends! Now we just cant wait for their next visit, and for us to meet up in Vegas this summer :)

Anyways, Faith copied some pictures onto our comp from their October 2008 wedding. Jonathan was a groomsman, I was a bridesmaid (a big prego bridesmaid in fact) and Miss Lilli was the flower girl...it was a family affair! This is one of the pictures that Faith gave us and I just had to share it!

Olivia Edith White

2009-01-17T20:05:00.000-08:00

Well she has arrived!

Olivia Edith White was born January 13th at 10:45pm weighing in at 5lbs 10oz and 19.25 inches!

Her birth was such a different experience from Lillian's birth... both amazing in their own ways.

Contractions came and went for weeks, strong then nothing, mild then nothing, mild, then strong, then nothing. So we were pretty disappointed when Carly and John (good friends that came to help when Olivia would be born) had come and gone... and still no baby.

So Tuesday night we were watching tv with normal mild contractions coming and going when all of a sudden one HUGE contraction came on. So strong that I couldn't sit still!! At first we thought. "well this may be another false alarm so we will wait and time them for an hour" (as previously instructed by Dr.)...but then 2 minutes later there was another, this time even more intense to the point where Jonathan said, "are you ok? your starting to worry me". I was a little shocked as well by the intensity... ok I was REALLY shocked... I told Jonathan, "we need to go... NOW".

So as Jonathan sprinted up the stairs to get our hospital bags, cell phones, chargers etc I called Sara (our amazing nanny). I told her "ummm well the baby is deff coming... Im not sure we can wait for you to get here to leave (she was coming to care for Lilli while we were in the hospital) but we are going to go next door to see if the neighbor can come and keep an ear out for Lilli (she was already asleep, thank goodness) until you get here."

So Jonathan ran next door to get the neighbor... no answer. We both were on the verge of panic, seeing as I didnt want to have the baby on the kitchen floor, in the car, or without an epidural for that matter. Luckily we found their cell numbers and woke them up! Zac (neighbor) came running over just in time to see me trying to breath through a contraction in the car, he gave me a thumbs up and with that we were off to the hospital.

Now I know that speeding is bad, there are a reason of speed limits. HOWEVER when your wife is literally about to pop a baby out... you speed. Jonathan did absolutely amazing. He got me to the hospital in 10 minutes flat. Seriously he is my super hero!!!

When we got to the hospital the nurses were moving at a decent rate, of course not fast enough since I could tell just how far into labor I was but as soon as the nurse checked me her eyes got big and she said "Uh she is 8 cm" then there were 3-4 nurses swarming around us doing all sorts of stuff to me and asking us questions for paper work, one nurse even stole another patients wheel chair to get me into my delivery room faster. That nurse ROCKED. The whole time between contractions I kept asking "what about and epidural, what about an epidural!!!'

There was no time... dun dun dun... there was time for a Spinal though!!!! (I know you are all as relived as I was :) ) However this took a nurse physically squeezing my iv bag in order to get a full bag of fluid in me in order to get the spinal in enough time before hand. It was all crazy. I am so thankful for those nurses! They were all so awesome.

The Spinal was incredible. No spaghetti legs afterwards! I literally got up and walked around after delivering Lilli!

So we arrived at the hospital and within 45 minutes little Olivia was born.

Jonathan was even able to help deliver her, which was incredible. INCREDIBLE!!!

She is such a miracle, and we are so so blessed to have our to little girls!

Update update

2009-01-05T10:04:00.000-08:00

Sorry I am so behind on keeping everyone updated... things have been a little crazy.
Still no baby sister... but we are working on it :)
Christmas was wonderful, Lilli thoroughly enjoyed it! Food, presents, mommy and daddy play time for almost a full week (Jonathan was working from home due to the huge snow storm we got)
Lots to catch up on with lots of new pics.
However- Trying to get this baby sister to come out, Carly gets in to town in about an hour, nanny will be here in 2 hours, and I still need to get ready for the day.
SO.
If I am unable to update with pics soon, I promise there will be little sister pictures!!
xoxoxo
-thanks for all the prayers :)

Registry

2008-12-29T16:40:00.001-08:00

Target.com
Babiesrus.com

Its crazy to think that we will have a little sister here so soon!

Target Baby

2008-12-25T15:37:00.001-08:00

Lilli should be in an add for Target :)

This is a pic of her from our last minute shopping at Target yesterday :)

SNOW SNOW SNOW!

2008-12-18T11:28:00.000-08:00

Ok so... we moved to get away from the snow... and of course the year we move to Seattle they have a record breaking snow fall. ha!

Well at least we have a cute bug that had fun checking out the snow :)

A little family photo

2008-12-16T17:49:00.000-08:00

So I have created a link to Heather Mann Photography's Blog.
She is great! She did our maternity pictures a couple weeks ago and is putting together some additional photo stuff for us (hellloooo Christmas cards!) ... So I thought I would share a little family photo she took the day of the maternity shoot. I cant wait for her to photograph our new little sister when she gets here!

Heather Mann Photography: {tis the season}

2008-12-16T15:31:00.000-08:00

Heather Mann Photography: {tis the season}

Just a peek

2008-12-10T16:30:00.001-08:00

So I got the maternity pictures back today... here is a little peek :)

Cookies!!!

2008-12-09T19:06:00.000-08:00

Well, Jonathan's sister Pam has an amazing cookie recipe. So we got it last week and this past Sunday tried our hand at these awesome cookies.... yum!

We made a HUGE batch of them and when they cooled we set out to decorate... for hours! :)

Lilli even decorated her very own... A Christmas tree.

She wasn't quite sure what it was we were asking her to do but she caught on fast... she put little green and red sprinkles on a frosted tree one by one. It was super cute. Then she realized it was edible...

Needless to say we have a ton of cookies... I was able to pawn some off on the nanny (thank you Sara!!).

Baby Sister

2008-12-03T21:40:00.000-08:00

Well today I had a Dr. apt...
It went really well! Baby sister is still doing really well. She is 3.5lbs already!! With Lilli being born at 5lbs I cant believe how big she is already!
No bed rest yet... praise God.
We got a dvd of the ultrasound and are going to try and post it as soon as figure out how to.She was so sweet... moving like crazy at first and then yawned about 10 times!
We cant wait to meet Baby sister!

One more

2008-11-29T14:53:00.001-08:00

Kerry Park....
The view of our city from Kerry Park. We love Seattle!!

Kerry Park.

2008-11-29T14:48:00.000-08:00

So this afternoon we headed to Kerry Park for Mommy's maternity shoot with Heather Mann.(cant wait to get the pics from that!!!)
It was a bit chilly but so much fun! We decided to hang out for a bit and enjoy the view once the shoot was over... here are some pics :)

Thanksgiving :)

2008-11-29T14:39:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving this year was so much fun. The three of us had a great relaxing day :) Mommy still cooked of course!
We started off with bagels and lox (yummmm!) while watching the Macys Day Parade of course.
Then mom was cooking cooking cooking.
Here are some pics from the day... Lilli LOVED turkey!!!!!!

"you lost that privilege"...seriously????!!!!

2008-11-24T19:36:00.000-08:00

Well tonight we were hanging some paintings... So Daddy was standing on a kitchen chair at some points. Lilli was in awe.
After we were done hanging the paintings and frames Lilli still wanted a chance at standing on the chair... or so she thought.
We took a chair in to playroom (carpet :) ) and we picked her up so she could stand on it... she settled for sitting on it... a little timid when it came to actually standing on it.
So we were playing (Lilli still sitting on the chair) and she starts to try and hit me in the face. We tell her no, no no, no, no no. Over and over again. So finally I said to her, "If you try and hit mommy one more time you have to get off the chair". She tried to hit me again. So I picked her up, set her on the floor, and said "I'm sorry Lilli but you lost that privilege".
Then I said "Oh NO! Did I seriously just say that???" We really are parents...

To register or not to register...

2008-11-19T23:49:00.000-08:00

So typically I thought it was tradition to only register during your first pregnancy... however I have been set straight on this...These days you get to register for all your babies! I love it.

It was so much fun to do it again!!! Especially now knowing what we really will need. You know being a seasoned mom and all :)

So here is our registry- Target, under Jonathan and Ashley White (Baby Sister White)
yay!

SNEAKY SNEAKY!!!

2008-11-13T15:06:00.001-08:00

SO... Tuesday Jonathan came home from work... normal time, normal way... Except when he walked in the door he had this strange grin on his face... and he left the door open behind him. strange. He then proceeded to tell me that he was going to grab the trash cans at which point I heard a knock on our front door (which was still open). When I turned the corner there was someone walking into our house... MY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So my Dad and Jonathan had been conspiring for a couple weeks to have him come out and surprise me for my Birthday. It was awesome. I cant believe them!!! I was, of course, CLUELESS!

Wed, we took my dad down to Pikes Place, had sushi (all cooked for me :) ) for my Birthday dinner and then Cheesecake Factory for my Birthday Cheesecake!

Lilli's 1st Bikini...

2008-11-02T14:12:00.000-08:00

So today I took the time to organize some pictures on our computer and I ran across pictures of Lilli in her first Bikini... had to share the pics!

Halloween...

2008-10-31T23:26:00.000-07:00

Well tonight was Halloween. We had so much fun with Lilli!

We started out the night getting Lilli dressed up in her little ducky costume, she looked super cute. Then mommy and daddy decided to dress up a bit as pirates!

We trick or treated with the little girl next door, Ava. She was a puppy. Her and Lilli were so cute!

Lilli did a great job only taking one piece of candy, as well as putting candy into other kids bags.

We trick or treated for about 30 minutes and then hung out at home passing out candy and playing with Lilli.... we even let her try a piece of a Twizzler... she wasn't to happy when mommy took it away!! However because she doesn't eat candy we put a puppy dog coloring book and a new princess cell phone in her pumpkin bag... She seemed thoroughly satisfied!

Lilli takes a trip to the Pumpkin Patch...

2008-10-26T13:50:00.000-07:00

So this afternoon we headed to the Pumpkin Patch.

Jonathan found an AWESOME patch that is super close to our house. Only 10 minutes away!!!

We had such a great time! There were lots of animals...pigs, ducks, chickens, goats, pony's, cows, bunny's, you name it. There was even a small incubator of 1-10 day old chicks. One egg was even in mid hatch!!! It was very cool.

So starting out we though Lilli would love the ducks.. after all it is one of her favorite storybook animals. Also her Halloween costume this year :) Well....we were wrong. Although we cant really blame her. Even mommy jumped when the ducks quacked at her. The were MASSIVE.

However, Lilli did like the little baby ducks and chicks :) She even went into the bunny hut to pet them :)

All in all her favorite part was the actual pumpkin patch. She probably would have wondered around in it for hours had we let her. She would go from pumpkin to pumpkin trying to pick each one up. It was very very cute.

We finally settled on 3 pumpkins. One of them very tiny, perfect for Lilli. She has become very attached to her little pumpkin!

25 weeks...

2008-10-25T14:54:00.000-07:00

And I look like a pumpkin :)

Perfect for Halloween!

Even when sick...we pose.

2008-10-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

So the past few days we have all been under the weather.. Lilli had a virus with teething her molars to top it off. Poor baby!

The past few nights have been pretty restless... we are hoping tonight will be back to normal.

Prayers appreciated :)

So even in the midst of crummy feeling, mommy and Lilli pose for daddy :)

Baby UGG

2008-10-22T19:28:00.001-07:00

So Daddy and Lilli were playing in the den...all of a sudden Daddy started laughing hysterically. When I went to look, here is what I saw.

The hat!

2008-10-21T19:40:00.000-07:00

So a few weeks ago my cousins Julie, Nate, and his wife Heather came to our house and stayed for a couple days.

So one night we are all sitting in the living room about to watch One Tree Hill and Nate says that he brought yarn to make Lilli a hat. SWEEEET! In case you didn't know Nate is the master of hat making... I need to talk him into making one for me.

Typically Lilli pulls hats off...which is such a bummer because she is so so cute in them! Well she happens to like Nate's hat.

This Sunday we went to Edmond's for a walk and dinner and Lilli thoroughly enjoyed using her hat, it was a bit chilly. Here are some pics :)...

Sweet hat, right?!

My Baby isnt a Baby anymore....

2008-10-15T10:09:00.000-07:00

So i was looking at some pictures a few moments ago and realized something... I'm not sure if it seemed so tragic to me because I am 24 weeks pregnant so hormones are raging, or if it is truly tragic.

My Baby isn't a Baby anymore....

Of course she is MY (by "my" I mean Jonathan and mine) baby... she will always be!

Seriously though, she walks, feeds herself, tells me "no no" while shaking her hand side to side, reads herself books in her own Lilli language. She isn't our little baby anymore!

I guess she decided to get all grown up so she can teach her baby sister a thing or two when she arrives :)

Oatmeal Baby

2008-10-14T14:22:00.000-07:00

Lilli has a breakfast love...Oatmeal :) I am very very happy about this, since its so good for her!!

However lately Lilli has decided that she no longer likes mom to feed her. Which is normally fine...however oatmeal normally requires a spoon. A spoon....not a function that Lilli has quite mastered. She is getting there though!

DePung wedding

2008-10-11T16:11:00.000-07:00

So one of our last events while still living in STL was the DePung wedding. I just got some of the pics from that night... super cute so I thought I would share :)
This is what a typical wedding looks like for us.

An ode to Chloe

2008-10-06T12:07:00.000-07:00

So Jonathan and I became parents for the first time in October of 2006 to a little pup named Chloe. As many of you know Chloe, the Yorkie, is the only dog that Jonathan has EVER taken a liking to. He vows it will be the only :)

Well after much thought and consideration we have made a decision to part with our beloved Chloe. I know that this will shock most of you, but we feel like it will be in the best interest of not only Jonathan and I but also for Chloe. We love her so much and cant believe that she wont be joining us as we head back to Seattle.

So this is for you Chloe, we love you and will never forget you!

xoxoxoxoxo

This past weekend

2008-09-17T18:19:00.001-07:00

So this past weekend we purchased some Seattle "GO" passes. Basically a pass that allows you entrance to 9 different attractions at a discounted price.

Saturday we missed the cruise tour so we decided to check out the Aquarium. It was SO cool. So Unbelievably Cool! There was a GIANT octopus that Jonathan couldn't get enough of!

There was so much to look at and explore I think we could have spent three days there! You could even touch (yes TOUCH) some of the starfish and sea urchins...

Sunday we made it in time for the cruise. It was so much fun. The cruise was in the Sound and was about an hour long. Jonathan took some amazing pictures of the city from the ship.

Official Bloggers

2008-09-17T18:19:00.000-07:00

Well we have decided to become official "bloggers".

Now living in Seattle, with one beautiful daughter and another on the way we realized that this is a much easier way of staying in touch then the mass emails we were trying to send out!