High School Football Game

Another post past due! Found these pictures on my camera and thought I ought to blog about them (mostly because I plan on turning the blog into a book at the end of the year.)

On Friday, September 18th, we went to the Eastlake High School football game where my sister Tori is a junior and on the cheer team. The school is located in Sammamish, WA. Also that night, Will Smith, Joe Montana and Wayne Gretzky were at a high school football game in Sammamish, WA too! Except they were at Skyline High School, just up the road. But hey, we can say we were that close to some famous people! So far the closest Karsen has been to a celebrity, that we know of anyway.

Karsen before we went into the stadium to find seats:

The Eastlake Cheerleaders (Tori is the blonde in the middle, looking to the side):
Karsen was cheering along too!

After awhile, he fell asleep!

Karsen was doing just fine sleeping thru all the noise of the crowd, and even thru my sister's halftime cheer performance, until the end of the routine. He was sitting in my sister Dani's lap and she cheered at the end of the routine and I think it scared him. I recorded the routine and at the end you can hear Karsen start crying!

Here's the routine:

We left just after the halftime show because Karsen was tired and getting grumpy. But it was fun to see the game and watch my sister perform! Maybe one day (in about 16 years or so) we will be going to every Friday night football game to watch Karsen play! :-)

Love, Michaela

To Tori...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT TORI!!!

Love, Karsen

Cheer Camp

Last Tuesday Karsen, Dani and I went down to The University of Puget Sound in Tacoma to watch Tori perform at cheer camp.

The team before they performed:

Here's the video of their performance (thanks Dani for filming it!):

Karsen was getting into the cheer spirit too!

It was nice to have Dani there to help me out with Karsen. (Sadly my mom wasn't able to come with us.) I love how Dani is always offering to change Karsen's diapers!

Aunt Dani feeding Karsen a bottle:

Dani held Karsen so much that I'm sure many people thought she was his mom! Tori and her roommate made this cute poster to hang on the outside of their dorm room door:

Eastlake (Tori's team) ended up winning 4 trophies during the awards ceremony after all the teams performed. They won Camp Champs for their performance that day, which is the award everyone wants to get! When I was on the cheer team (do I dare say how long ago?) we also won Camp Champs too! :-)

Here is Tori and all their trophies: The sisters and Karsen:
The cheer team and Karsen - he's already a ladies man!
All the excitement wore the little boy out!

After the awards ceremony, we waited for Tori to collect her stuff so that we could bring her home. We then met my parents for lunch at Red Robin in Redmond. It was a very full but fun day!

Congrats Tori! Can't wait to see how your team does at camp next year!

Love, Michaela

Out and About at 2 weeks

Yesterday Karsen turned 2 weeks old! Boy is time really flying!

Since Tim had to go back into his office instead of working from home, Karsen and I went on a day trip to Redmond to visit Grandma Dana and Grandpa Brad.

We had a bit of a late start on the day since someone wasn't too happy about getting into his carseat, but once he gets in the car and we start moving, he's out like a light.

We got to my parents' house and waited for my sister Tori to get home from school so that we could go pick up some lunch. She held him for a little while and of course he started to get a bit fussy. She always starts to freak out a bit when he passes some gas or starts to cry. The look on her face is always hilarious!

Tori is freaking out here because Karsen is crying:

We then ordered lunch from our one of our family's favorite places - Acapulco Fresh - and headed out to pick it up. We then took our lunch to my dad's shop to eat and also to see my dad.

Karsen's first chip? Haha!

We also had to get a picture of Karsen with Robert who works at the shop because they share the same birthday!

Wow I'm in a picture!

My dad was so funny taking Karsen around the shop! Maybe Karsen will one day like cars just as much as his grandpa!

Standing under a car:

Sitting on the hood of a Mercedes Benz:

Getting under the hood of a car:

Holding his first screwdriver:

After hanging out at the shop, my mom, Karsen and I headed to Target so that I could pick up a few things, since I hadn't been to a store since before Karsen was born. I was a bit scared about the adventure to Target because Karsen had been sleeping pretty much the entire time we were at the shop and I just knew that it was only a matter of time before he woke up and started crying.

Luckily our trip to Target was very peaceful! We just kept him in his carseat and put the carseat into the shopping cart and he just kept on sleeping. He probably thought he was still in the car haha! At one point I had to try some things on and my mom had to keep walking around with the cart and Karsen because when she would stop, he would start to stir. The only thing disappointing about the trip was that I didn't get any pictures of Karsen's first visit to a store. :(

On our way back to my parents' house, we had to stop at the shop again to drop something off that my mom had gotten at Target. It may have been the demise of our trip because Karsen started to wake up and just as I was about to pull out of the parking lot into traffic, he started screaming! My mom jumped out of the front seat real quick and into the back to hopefully help calm him down. Luckily it only took a few minutes for her to get him to quiet back down so that we didn't have to hear him screaming the entire 10 minutes to my parents' house - it breaks my heart to hear him crying like that, especially when I can't really do anything about it.

Overall we had a fun day out and about. A BIG thank you to my mom for going with us to Target (which is one of the main reasons I ventured out of the house), I wouldn't have been able to do it alone!

Love, Michaela

He's FINALLY Here!

Karsen Timothy Freitag finally arrived!

Here are the stats:

Born: Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Time: 11:56 AM

Weight: 7 pounds 4 ounces

Length: 20 3/4 inches

He is just beautiful and we couldn't be happier with our new little bundle of joy!

I am doing great and will post the whole labor story a bit later.

Here are a few pictures of our little angel!

First time I got to hold him:

Proud Daddy:

First Bath:

Sticking his tongue out:

All my siblings came to visit:

With Grandma:

With Grandpa:

Sticking his tongues out with Uncle Brandon:

With Aunt Dani:

With Aunt Tori:

With Aunt Renee:

Just sleeping:
(He really likes to keep his hands up by his face)

Will post more pictures later and even some video (once I figure out how to get it off the camera).

Thank you to everyone for visiting, calling, texting, emailing, Facebooking, etc!! We love you!

Love, Michaela

Prom 2009

Even though Saturday was Tim's birthday, I agreed to help my sister Tori get ready for Prom. She wanted to just wear her hair straight down, so I was mostly there to help her with her make-up.

She attended Redmond High School's Senior Prom with her boyfriend, Austin. (Tori is only a Sophmore, so she'll get to do this again in 2 years!)

Here are a few pictures, some I took and some I didn't - but they are all stolen from Tori's Facebook page. Hope you don't mind T!

The front view:

The back view:

The money shot:
(It's $100 in 1's that my brother had)

Tori & Austin:

The pic taken at the Prom:

She looked SOOO beautiful! I can't believe how grown up my baby sister is!!! Love you Tori!

Love, Michaela