Random Pictures!

I have an apron that used to be Nana Coby's and Kali like to wear it and call herself a princess. This time I gave her a "wand" to wave around!

"Oh... you think I'm cute??"

Kimberly is trying to act like a teen: Unable to stay awake in the daylight hours after staying up way into the darkest latest hours! She didn't even flinch after this picture was taken.

Kali ended up coming with me to Lisa's wedding shower and played catch phrase with us! She kept saying root beer and so I thought this sticker was appropriate for her! :-)

The face of a kid about to fall asleep in the car! She was out 5 minutes after this picture!

Kali likes to block out her surroundings and hide in her Dora tent! Sometimes she brings her favorite Dora movie in too!

BIg girl thinks she is a baby!!

I started to move all of Kali's big baby items when she very quickly intercepted them!

Here she is acting like her infant tub is also her cradle! Her legs are so long these days! She asked for a blanket and then said "Night night Mommy!"
Like the stretched face?? I was bagging up her bumper when she quickly took it from me... without much of a fight I will admit... and then made a little play-pen out of it!

And then played in her playpen! :0) She loves that little learning table... I'll have to sneak all of this stuff down another day when she's napping!! For now it's cute and she's happy so we aren't going to fight it!

Check out THOSE muscles!

Kali got into the closet this morning and found her 0-9months robe... um, it's a bit tight! :-)

Flex those muscles!!

New Year's Resolution??

As the new year approached Mike and I decided that we really needed to get ourselves healthier! I hate to label this as a New Year's Resolution because we've been talking about it for some time now. Officially though we have both begun eating a little bit healthier, including vitamins, and taking advantage of our community center membership. The indoor pool recently opened up and with it came more options for working out! Plus, the kids LOVE the pool!! Anyhow... labeling getting healthy as a New Year's Resolution is just asking for failure so let's just say that our real resolution is to attend church more often as a family! Happy New Year everyone!!

Christmas Left-Overs!

To wrap up our Christmas Festivities we celebrated the Saturday after with the Coldwell family at Grandma and Papa Coldwell's house. Papa dressed up like Santa and we did White Elephant gifts with the adults. We had a great time!

The only picture I managed to capture for the whole night! :-( At least it's a super cute one of Nina, Nicole, and Kali. She loves those big girls!

We set up this Dora and Boots table from Nana and Papa Foley as soon as we got home!

She LOVES this table and chairs!!

Merry Christmas!!

The festivities started off after I got off work. Mike and the kids went to Christmas Eve service at church and I beat them home from work. Mike's side of the family always comes over after church on Christmas Eve where we eat good food, watch Christmas Vacation, and now do White Elephant gift exchange. We had a great time! After everyone left we revealed to Nathan that he got a new orange kitty for Christmas. He was sooooo excited! We gave it to him early because it wouldn't be fair for him to get it and then have to leave for his mom's and leave the kitty behind.

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Well, for Christmas I was a bad photographer!! I came away with two pictures from the entire morning!! The actual Christmas morning started off with me being cancelled which was great! The kids slept until 8 am when Kali made her rounds. As is tradition they started off with their stockings while we made coffee. Everyone had a cup of juice or coffee and then we headed into present time!! I had to help Kali because she kept lunging for the other kids' gifts and that's why I didn't take many pics. In all it was a great day. Mike and I felt blessed to have been able to get as much stuff for the kids as we did and also we found the holiday with most of us healthy. Mike was still holding on to his cold Christmas morning but now he is feeling better! :-)

Here's Kali sporting two of her favorite gifts... her Mermaid night gown and her Hello Kitty spin brush. :-)

Here is Nathan's new Christmas kitty... Tiger! This little toy was in his stocking and he LOVES it! It's a fish on the end of a fishing pole and then mounted on the glass on the back door. He had logged a few hours with it since he joined our family on Christmas Eve!

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Kimberly and Nathan went off to their mom's house before lunch and Mike and I cleaned up and Kali played with her new toys. Later after nap time we went over to Vic and Carolyn's house to celebrate with the Foley's. Again no pictures but it was fun! The kids all opened presents and played. What a great day!!

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Christmas kept on going for us on into Saturday with the Coldwell's. Mom and Dad's house was full of 30+ people and we made the most of it! After good food and white elephant gifts paired with lots of laughs... Santa AKA Dad made an appearance. Kali flipped out until he pulled down the beard and revealed that he was in fact Papa. We have captured this on the camcorder and I am working on getting it on the blog... super funny!!