Thanksgiving

This week has been so busy! It started out by driving to Big Bear for a few days. We rented a cabin and invited Jeff's parents, Gmom and Papa Don, and his sister, Laura, and of course Matthew was in town. Jeff and Matthew spent all day Tuesday snowboarding and I joined them for a little while in the afternoon. Kali got to play in the snow with Aunt Laura and Gmom and Papa Don, apparently she loved it so much she didn't want to come back inside! She is very strong willed this one. We came home on Wednesday and got to cooking early on Thursday morning for Thanksgiving. We made lots of food and everything was delicious! Val came down too, we always love visits from auntie Vee!!!

Kali is finally mellowed out from the craziness all week. She has been crankier than usual and I think it is because she was so over stimulated. She didn't eat or sleep much at all. Can't wait to do it all over again for Christmas!!!

Kali loves to dance these days, she is such a happy girl and dancing with mommy gives her the giggles. She shakes her head like crazy and jumps around in circles. TOO CUTE.

This is all for now, enjoy the pics and thanks for following our blog!

Laura Jeff and Kali

Kali the comdian!

It has been a few months since my last blog entry. Guess my resolution to write more often on here hasn't been going so well. :o)

We have been up to quite a bit these days. Kali started preschool in August, it took her a little while but she is used to it now and loves it there. Her teachers are great and she is a social butterfly, just like her momma. She goes 3 days a week while I go to work at the salon. Saturdays is daddy and Kali day. They go to swim class together, have lunch and nap till I get home. I think that Saturdays are Jeff's favorite day of the week.

Kali is a very active little girl. She is running and pushing herself on her tricycle and cars. She is doing wonderful in swim class too. This is her last month of swimming until the summer. We will take a little break over the holidays and start her up in gymnastics in January. I am looking forward to that. She will love it! What a great way to burn off all that energy!

Kali dressed up as a lion for Halloween this year. We went trick-or-treating with the Petroskes and the Bells AND auntie Val. It was sooo much fun. Kali got the hang of taking candy from strangers pretty quickly. She also would take the candy out of her bucket and put it inside Alessandras or other kids buckets. At one point she walked up to a door and took candy out of her bucket to put into the one they had!! It was very funny. The other day she saw her lion costume and told me to put it on her (not in so many words) and she walked around looking at herself in the mirror and saying "roar!" Super adorable this child is!!!

The other night we were all upstairs in our bedroom and Kali and Jeff were hiding in the closet. I was pretending to be looking for them and would go into the closet and they would "scare" me. BOY! Did Kali love that! She kept running into the closet and come out SCREAMING at the top of her lungs. I'm surprised she didn't hurt her vocal cords. Jeff and I were in tears from laughing so hard. We love that kid.

We are all super excited for Thanksgiving this year! We will get to spend a few days in Big Bear with Matthew and Jeff's parents and his sister. Hopefully there will be enough snow for us to ski and snowbord but the house we are staying in is so awesome!!! It has a hot tub, a pool table, big screen tvs, PLENTY to do for sure. Then we will all come back to our house and have Thanksgiving here. My family will come down and spend it with us too.

Then before we know it, Christmas will be here. I can't even believe it! Well, enjoy the pictures and stay tuned for more bolgs! Hopefully before the end of the year! ;O)

Laura