Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

Massive photo update

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Baby Ciana keeps getting cuter and cuter!

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Ciana Expressions

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Isn’t she a doll?

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Ciana Jean Valiant has arrived!

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Ciana Jean Valiant:
Born January 14, 2010
7 lbs 12 oz
21″ long
A full head of hair!
Super sweet and adorable!

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We’re 37 Weeks Pregnant!

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

We own a super sweet camera, so we had Jeremy and Tama over to take pregnancy shots of us at 37 weeks pregnant. We turned our kitchen into a photo studio, and Casey got the camera all set up (I really need to read the book that we bought about our camera to figure out how to do ISO settings, white balance, and the like).

Here are some of my favorite shots. We took hundreds, and I’ll post a link to our Shutterfly photo book after I get that designed.

Yes, the iPhone photos were Casey’s idea. I think we need to sell them to Apple.

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September 2009 Events

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009


Showing my baby belly at the Midsouth SCBWI conference in Nashville in Sept.


I won the Illustration Contest at the children’s book writers and illustrators conference in Nashville – yay! Here’s my entry. The art director had given us a couple picture book manuscripts, and we had to choose one spread to illustrate using the text he provided.


Labor Day weekend is a great time to blow bubbles and see family.


Drew is pile of laughs – even snapping beans is funny.

Ultrasound – It’s a girl!

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

We’re having a girl!

Yay! Doesn’t she have the most beautiful profile? That’s our little sweetie.

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Fall 2008 – March 2009

Monday, March 16th, 2009

It’s been a lot of months since I’ve had a chance to update this, so here’s a long visual update starting in fall and going to March.

International World Tour Dinner
International World Tour Dinner

International World Tour Dinner
International World Tour Dinner

Carving Pumpkins
Carving Pumpkins

Huge Bonfire
Huge Bonfire!

Caramel Apples with Mom and Dad Gerner
Caramel Apples with Mom and Dad

Evansville

Evansville in the Fall
Evansville in the fall

Jeremy, Tama, Kristi and Casey
Jeremy, Tama, me and Casey

Barn Dancing!
Barn dancing y’all!

Bible Study Friends
Friends we meet with once a week to study the Bible and hang out

Whoo-hoo
Whoo-hoo

Thanksgiving Turkey
Casey made our Thanksgiving turkey

Thanksgiving with friends
Thanksgiving at our house with friends

All smiles
All smiles

Casey and brothers at Walt's MBA graduation
Casey and brothers at Walt’s graduation

Uncle Monkey and the nephews
Grant and Jakey love playing with Uncle Monkey

Valiant family is all boys
The Valiants are a family full of boys!

Don't let go
"We’ll never let go of Uncle Casey"

The Valiants
The Valiants

Kristi and Grandma Schneider
Kristi and Grandma

The Gerner Fam
The Gerner side

Gerners - three generations
Three generations

Lake Winnebago
Playing on Lake Winnebago

Snowball fight in Fond du Lac
Snowball fight in Fondy

Snow in Wisconsin... not in Evansville
We don’t get snow like this in Evansville

Kristi and JiYeon
Me and Ji Yeon and our new friend – he’s a little stiff though

New Year's Eve in New Harmony, IN
New Year’s Eve in New Harmony, IN

Romance
We had a romantic weekend in New Harmony

Casey at TaeKwonDo testing
Casey at Tae Kwon Do testing

Casey sparring
Casey’s sparring the instructor

Hippos at the Nashville zoo
A hippo friend at the zoo in Nashville, TN

Creation Museum
Shuang, me, and Ji Yeon at the Creation Museum in Cincinnati

Petting a piggie
Petting a piggie

Gerners invade Chicagoland

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

My side of the family spent a weekend in a vacation house outside of Chicago in August. I use the term "vacation house" lightly; it was advertised as such, but the pool was out of order, the oven was missing it’s door, the house didn’t have the number of beds it promised, it had counted the unfinished basement as a bedroom, etc. Despite all that, we had a great time playing games, eating amazing Chicago pizza, roasting marshmallows, playing with nieces, and eating. Lots of eating. Thanks, Shaun, for bringing your Wii!


Mario Kart on the Wii – yeah, it was intense.

Holiday World

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

We spent a Sunday with Casey’s side of the family at Holiday World – a waterpark & amusement park rolled into one. It was so much fun playing with our nephews in the water. I love waterparks!


Cousins and best buds.


Look at those super sad faces because it was time to go home.