jack, raegan, grace

all i want for christmas....

is a big fat red kitchen... well, maybe those aren't the exact words that came out of grace and raegan's mouths, but that is what santa heard. and santa spent a lot of time putting the kitchen together on christmas eve. so, here they are... raegan is already talking on the phone. she must be telling santa 'thank you'.

now that's a mess...


and jack slept through it all.


fortunately, we can all once again find our inner rock star.


and after a couple hours, jack decided to join the land of the living. he can't wait to play rock band.

christmas eve

on christmas eve we decided to make our pies for the next day and some cookies for santa. grace and raegan were great helpers... they helped to eat all the dough off the mixer attachment. we made yummy cherry cheese pie and pumpkin pie... then chocolate chip cookies for santa.


after we finished in the kitchen we began with our christmas eve tradition of opening one present.


as usual, we all opened pajamas. and here we are with our pjs on.

mount scott

slightly north of us is a mountain... yes, right here in oklahoma we have a mountain... mt. scott. ok, ok, so its not sandia crest, but it is as close to a mountain as we can get. so, we decided to take a trip up. it was pretty nice out... but extremely windy. i mean, if you are grace, you better plant your feet or you might blow away... so, we drove up the mountain and got to the top and started to climb around on the rocks and then take a family picture. raegan was not too excited about being on top of the mountain... as documented here...


she was 'afraid of the water' and did not want to go in the water... what water? you ask... well, that big lake behind us in the picture and way below us. her depth perception must be off...

on the other hand, grace loved it...


she actually cried when we told her that we had to leave. nice.


after a while of sitting in the car, raegan decided to give mt. scott another chance. and this time, she had fun.

amedd holiday ball

on 13 december, bryan and i attended the amedd holiday ball on post. we have a smashing time... well, it was pretty fun. we sat at a table with all the dentac residents and ate some yummy food after the thousand toasts we had to do... good times. it was actually fun to get all dressed up and have somewhere fun to go! i told bryan that we have to go to all the balls since he bought his dress blues. he has to have somewhere to wear them!


here is a picture of all the dentac residents. left to right... major caldwell, captains horspool, dahlke, jusino, kim, furdek, and hoffman.

jack cayetano horspool

03 december 2008
9:26 pm
8 lbs 1 oz
20 inches

so, we went into the hospital wednesday morning for an induction. we arrived at about 8 am and started the induction at 10 am. things progressed slowly and sometime around noon i received some pain medication which swiftly put me to sleep.

bryan thought this was a good shot of my labor reading material... nice.

well, after a few more hours the pain increased and we called for the anesthesiologist. around 8 my water broke and shortly after we had a new family member... baby jack.


grace and raegan came with grandma kathy to the hospital on thursday. grace loved him instantly and wanted to hold him right away. i think she will be an excellent helper. raegan was interested in him for about 5 seconds. then, she hopped off the bed and started playing around the room.


well, jack sure was red when he was born and after a while the pediatrician visited and told us that jack was dat (direct antibody transfer) positive. apparently, when he was in the womb, my body recognized his blood type as different from mine and tried to attack it, resulting in a lot of red blood cells. unfortunately, this also is a cause of jaundice in babies. so, they took some blood and jack was in the mid-level risk for jaundice. because of this, we had to stay an extra day and jack spent almost 24 hours in light therapy.


prior to his light therapy, i swear, he never cried. actually, once, he cried... when he was first born... then... even when they gave him his shots... he never cried. until the light therapy. man alive, he really hated it under there. after about being in the therapy for about 12 hours, he got used to it and was happy to be there. after his therapy, they took some blood to test his bilirubin levels and he had moved to the low-risk zone. they took another test after 6 more hours and he remained in the low-risk level and we were finally able to go home! yay!


jack sure was glad to get out of that box and finally be held! and so we prepared for the trip home.


the girls and jack have adjusted well to being home and we have enjoyed being home as a family. the girls love him and are great helpers.

incredible pizza

so, we took the girls to oklahoma city a couple of saturdays ago. incredible pizza is 'like chuck e cheese, but way better' according to everyone. the girls had a blast. they have an entire room with arcade games, mini golf, mini bowling, go karts, and much more. i guess it was our last big outing with only 4 family members.

here are the pictures of us playing mini golf. the girls did a round, then me and bryan played. they really enjoyed actually playing by themselves.



they had this one game where you you sat and it simulated a roller coaster. grace loved it and rode it probably 5 times. the first time raegan rode it, she rode with bryan... and i guess she liked, it... but when we put her on the seat herself, she cried. i guess it was a little too much bouncing around...

all in all... a very successful day!