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Well, it has been awhile since i have posted. Since October 6th several things have happened. The most important and significant one is the birth of my daughter Celeste Taylor Rathjen. Born October 20, 2008 at 12:16pm at the Monorah Medical Center in Overland Park, KS. She weighed 7 lbs 8 oz and was 18.5 inches long. She is my newest love and such an angel. She is now 2 months old and weighs 10 lbs 7.5 oz and measures 21.75 in. She was doing really well sleeping through the night for about a week and a half until monday when she got her first set of shots since being in the hospital, since then she was waking up once and needing to be fed. she is better now and back to her old self.
Another big event was the move. Nathan Celeste and I moved from our little apartment into Nathan's parent's basement. It has been interesting trying to get settled and organized. it has been nice to always have someone there to watch the baby. any way i have to go to work now and so i will write more about the events soon.

All generalizations are false.

Hmmm... very paradoxical, isn't it? Well, it has been a little while since i last posted, so here is a quick update. Since the last post, several things have happened. Jon and Dani were married, I celebrated my golden birthday, and Laura came home from her mission. There are many other events that happened as well, but those are the highlights. Now for the details.
On Friday September the 12th, Danielle Fackrell and Jonathan Allee were sealed for time and all eternity in the St. Louis Missouri Temple. It was a wonderful experience for all of us in attendence. Dani was so pretty and Jon so handsom. I was so happy for the two of them. The next day was their reception. Dani looked beautiful in her dress and everything turned out great. One funny story from the reception, it was getting close to the time to cut the cake, but there was no knife. So we grabbed a knife from the kitchen and took the ribbon from Diane's flowers and tied it around the knife to make it look better. it worked out, and no one could even tell.
For my Birthday we had a scavenger hunt in the park, it was fun and we all had a good time. There is not much else to say on the party except for my monkey. One of the presents i got was a big stuffed monkey which i love. It has been very nice to have around since Nathan has been out of town for work the last couple of weeks.
After spending a year and a half in the mission field, my sister Laura has come home. It was an exciting time (especially for my mom) and I am so glad for the example that she has set for me. She is such a good person and has such a strong spirit around her.
Other things that have happened are the corn maze: This last weekend some of us went up to the Liberty Corn Maze. What a fun time. it is so much fun trying to traverse through the maze and find the way around. I also had a baby shower from the people that i work with. it was good times and fun people. I am gonna miss those people while i am at home with the baby. Another great announcement, I am so very excited for the temple coming to the KC area! That was so cool to be able to hear from the prophet that we are getting a temple. Yeah!! Any way, it is getting late, and i need sleep (trying to get it while i can). I will write again soon (hopefully).

Clabber Girl, the double acting baking powder

Hello everyone. This week is going to be a fun week. it started out with a broken car. Dad's working on it right now. Hopefully it will be done tmrw. Later this week there is a wedding. Yeah!! Thursday and Friday i will be in St Louis for Dani and Jon's wedding and Saturday is the reception. I am so excited! It's official, my last day at work will be Septmber 27th and then i will be at home until the baby is born. And to let everyone know, i am going to be at home bored, well i will be getting ready for the move, you know packing and cleaning and the like. If anyone would like to come over during that time when i am not working, feel free. i would be grateful for any amount of company. Any who, i must go to work. Until next time.Linda

The life cycle of the pink flamigo

So i have decided that the title of "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2" for my blogs is somewhat boring, so i am going to make up creative names for each of them that have nothing to do with anything. Well, not much has happened since mt last blog. I am getting bigger, and have another doctor's appt tomorrow. so far nothing is amiss and all is good. well, it is fried chicken night and dinner is ready, so i am going to say so long and adieu to you.

Chapter 2

Well, thanks everyone who wants to view my blog. That makes me feel loved. :-). So i am sitting here at my mom's house on the computer waiting until i go to work, i still have about an hour. I am not sure what to write, so i will write a funny story that happened about a week ago. Last Thursday Dani, Jon, Nathan, and I decided to go on a road trip up to Haun's Mill. (For those of you who don't know what it is, it was a settlement made by the Latter-day Saints in the 1830s where many were killed. ) As we were up there we did a little exploring and had gotten pretty muddy, so we had to get into the trunk to change into other clothes that were in there. Nathan had opened the trunk and put the keys on the little ledge that the trunk door sits on. After we were done with the trunk he closed and we were about to leave and he said, "Where are the keys" I remembered seeing them on the ledge and told him where they were. The keys were locked in the trunk and we had no way of getting to them. The spare key is currently lost and the button to pop the trunk was broken. It was still light out but getting dark fast, and we were pretty much in the middle of no where so the cell phones weren't getting much of a signal. Nathan was the only one who could get a connection and his phone was very low on battery. We were able to get a message, but not before attempting to break into the trunk by several different means. The whole time, we weren't worried but instead were looking at this as a funny time that we are able to laugh at the situation. After finally managing to get through on my phone to my dad he was able to help us fix the trunk pop button which turned out to be a broken fuse. After about an hour of trying to get into the trunk and losing light fast we were able to get the keys and drive safely home. All in all, it was a fun night and one will remember for a long time. ("hey, remember that time when we were at Haun's Mill...") good times. any way, it is time to go and eat lunch before heading to work.
BUH BYE

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Chapter 1

Well, here it is the first official blog. I am following my mom's example and hope to be able to keep up with it. I think first I will update. First off, I am going to be a mom at the end of October. Nathan and I are very excited. We are having a girl and her name is probably going to be Celeste Tayler Rathjen. (notice the CTR initials ;-) . My sister comes home from her mission in about a month and we are very excited for that too. Dani and Jon are getting married in a few short weeks and I am the matron of honor. So the next few months will be very eventful and exciting. Any way, i think that i will continue on another day.