...And Then There Were Six!!

Been a LONG Time!

2011-06-19T13:25:00.001-07:00

It's been a long time since I updated. Everyone is growing up so fast around here! Ethan is 15 months old, Kali is 4 (almost 5), Nathan is 13 (almost 14), and Kimberly is 14 (almost 15)!! The summer is well underway and will be over before we know it!! Here are some peeks into the last few months!! ENJOY!

Not enjoying riding the truck with Kali!
Playing in the fort together....

Handsome boy!

Loves the snow!!

No words necessary!

So nice of Nathan to pull his sis around...while she eats her snow!

Nathan let us bury him... then he acted like he was napping.

Hugs

Little Nana and Grandma came out to help us run the Alex's Lemonade Stand...

The poor horse had a ton of riders that day!

Mr. Photogenic on Little Nana's lap!

Summer Lovin'

Diva

Love Love Love when he sits like this! Cutest little feet!!!

Soccer legs in motion!

2010-05-01T06:50:00.000-07:00

To get Ethan interested in his toys I put this one on his belly and let him kick like usual. It's fun to see him do the same motion over and over to figure out the sound. He is more alert every day... love it!!

Two months down... one to go!

2010-05-01T06:15:00.001-07:00

Two months have come and gone and we are having a good time! Ethan is growing like crazy and is changing every day. We are starting to see signs of jealousy in Kali but it's quite manageable and in all she is quite fond of her baby brother! Enjoy our pictures!!

Started off Spring with a trip to Deanna Rose Farmstead. I am not so great at taking pictures when I am out and about with both kids and no daddy to help so this is all you get! :-) She loves loves love going to the "animal farm" so I am sure we'll have more later! Oh yeah, the shutter wasn't open all the way... adds a bit of drama to the photo!

Play time with Miss Trinity! Trinity was born on the same day, only 7 hours earlier than Ethan! She was only 2 days early and so you can see a little bit of a size difference!! She kept looking at him as if to say, "Why are you crying?" It's pretty special to share your birthday with such a cute little girl... they are sure to be buddies for life!!

Ahhh, already signs of blossoming love! :-)

Peek a Boo!!

Kali likes to try to be the baby along side little brother.
She quickly figured out that she can't buckle up in this little seat and then took to rocking in it and hiding from the camera!

Weird how much she looks like me in this picture!

Sweet little boy!

Sleep sleep sleep!

Tea time with Woody- her favorite toy ever!! Note the princess light up shoes and how they accessorize the princess jammy dress! I sure hope Woody is warm enough under his blanket! :-)

She loves this guy!

Kali took this picture... we have a family of geese that keep mingling in the lot across from our house. We are pretty sure there are eggs hidden in the weeds and can't wait to see some fuzzy babies honking about!

Little Nana is here! She was soooo excited to hold her newest great grandson! Talk about some pride in those sweet eyes! It was hard to take him home after this... I think she could have held our sweet little man all day! She did put him down long enough to play some serious indoor soccer with Kali. Sorry... no pics of that but I can tell you for sure that it was intense! :-)

Twelve Weeks off of Work: Month 1

2010-04-05T11:10:00.000-07:00

Wow! This first month has flown by!! I get to take 12 weeks off of work and am trying my best to document all of our fun. Despite the issues of night time sleeping things are going well! It took Ethan an extra week to get to his birth weight after the normal loss but now is doing well and eating like a champ. Big sis Kali is smitten with him but not so much that she can't entertain herself with her toys all all other distractions like taking pictures!! Kimberly and Nathan are great and avoiding the camera like always but I plan on catching them soon!! Mike has been WONDERFUL!! He kept up with all of the grocery shopping this month, keeps Kali entertained when I need it, and is all around awesome. I'm pretty lucky!! I will try to post pictures in one month increments because, well, having a second little one changes EVERYTHING!! :-)

Kali took this one... super cute sleeping on the hippo mat!!
Go for the binkie... stay away from the thumb!!

Daddy and Kali making the biggest peanut butter cookies I have ever seen!!

Check out the mohawk!!

Ethan has many many different expressions... here he is saying Ohhhhh.

No no no... get put in a binkie and stay away from the thumb!

Another Kali picture... she loves this guy!! Daddy is a great subject to photograph!

Funny Faces!!

One last snow... it was in the 50s so we decided to play in it!!

Gotta clean it up!

Whoopsie...

All of that hair... I sure had a lot of heartburn with this little guy!

Kali said she was diving in the ocean! Funny girl acting like she's scuba diving with this water bottle lid... maybe we've seen Finding Nemo a few times! :-)

Landon couldn't stop laughing when he held Ethan!!

Sweet Baby Boy!!!

Ethan has arrived!!

2010-03-17T16:34:00.000-07:00

What a day!! I celebrated my 29th birthday on March the 4th with a sick day and a wicked dose of bronchitis!! That night I found myself suffering through a 5 min coughing fit and when I got up to tend to Kali... I found that my water had broken!! After about 45 min of denial I realized that I needed to call the doctor and get Mike out of bed. We got to the hospital at 6:50 am and found that I wasn't dilated OR effaced. To say the least I was a little frantic worrying that I forced him out and that he wasn't going to be ready or wasn't going to have strong lungs... well by 8pm that night Ethan Jeffrey made his way into our world as perfect as can be! He weighed in at 7lbs and was 19 3/4 inches long. He was ready and now we are complete!!

First time holding Ethan... I got to cut the cord because Mike was too emotional to pull it together... He was so strong for me, such a great husband!!

Big man tipped the scales at 7lbs (rounding up from 6lb 5/8oz)

Uh oh... we already have one thumb sucker!! Somebody hurry up and grab a binky!

Proud big sister! Kimberly couldn't wait to hold him! She' been telling me for weeks that she plans on holding him every day all day... now it's not quite like that but she's pretty happy to have him home!!

Nate thinks he's a cool little dude!!

Soooo tired and soooo happy to have him in our arms!

Sweet little man!!

Sure I'll hold him... just don't get in the way of my cartoons!!

Nap Time with Daddy... and a friend!!

2010-02-04T15:47:00.000-08:00

When I am at work Kali is home with Daddy. They have a lot of fun at nap time including a solid 20 min of play time before catching ANY ZZZZZZs! On this particular day Kali wanted to take pictures of her friend Buzz Lightyear.

Buzz Lightyear
Kali took this one... Buzz Lightyear's butt! haha

Buzz acting like a chipmunk...

Buzz playing like he's Nemo! :-)

Last but not least Kali making her "man face" with Buzz. She's been making this face and calling it her "man face"! The things she comes up with!!

Winter Break Part 1

2009-12-27T08:23:00.000-08:00

We are halfway through Winter Break and already have some fun memories caught on film! The break started off with knowing that Kimberly was officially moved back! After three semesters of school living with her mom she decided to come back to Belton... to stay! Hopefully we'll get some pictures of her new funky purple room... it's way cool!!

Check out this little dancer! Kali rarely keeps pants on when she's home for any extended amount of time! She especially likes to put on her Princess Shoes and dance around for us. Very entertaining and she seems to be quite comfortable!
Play time in the living room!! Kali busted out the Twister Moves and we had Yo Gabba Gabba going on the TV. Quite a bit of dancing a shaking going on!!

Coco wants a turn....

Nevermind! He's too shy!

To win Kali just jumped on all of the colors! That will work... I think.

On Christmas Ever Tiger jumped into Kali's baby bed and she decided to cover him up with blankets. He stayed in that bed for over and hour. After I took this picture she started piling babies and books on him...he didn't like that part!

We had to put off Christmas morning until noon waiting for Kimberly and Nathan to get home from their mom's house. To keep Kali occupied we let her open up a couple of her gifts. Here is her Lego set... she was making a castle for Tinker Bell.

I love this picture! You can see Kali's tower... plus Coco's chew stick balancing on the left tower. She was teasing him with it... you can see him on the lower left corner staring up at the stick! Poor Coco Baby! Also- you can see Kali playing on her easle that Santa brought. She LOVES it!!

Kali got Elefun for Christmas and here she is playing with Kimberly... another wonderful game for toddlers! I highly recommend it for any toddler 2 and up! The butterflies shoot out slowly for them to catch in the nets.

Kimberly is the best to have around for playing with Kali. She doesn't even feel forced because Kali offers up a game or toy and Kimberly is genuinely excited to play with her!! Sisters... LOVE IT! Here they are playing ice cream shop PlayDoh. I'm still cleaning up PlayDoh sprinkles... Yummy!

Ah finally a picture of Nathan! He finally did his annual bare belly snow angel! Well.... his pants and gloved hands got in the snow... he somehow managed to keep his bare skin off of the snow. Kimberly and I think he's getting soft in his old age! haha

Random stuff... just like us!

2009-12-08T15:54:00.001-08:00

My camera has been out of comission for some time now... but now we are up and running! Here's my attempt at catching up! More to come... I promise!!

I didn't realize that Kali had put Elmo in the tub... she definitely has the concept of flotation device down! She is soooo considerate of Elmo's eyes too and put his goggles on him! What a nice girl!!
Kali took this picture of Kimberly... good hob huh?!

We had a wing-fry for the KU/MU boarder war showdown. It was super nice so we went out to play at half time. Kali discovered that there is sand under the rocks on this half round landscaped wall! She discovered that she didn't like sand in her panties! :-)

Kali serenaded me while I put the turkey in the oven for Thanksgiving... It was great!

Our girls!

Uncle John was in town last month. It was great to see him! Kali really warmed up to him and thought it fun to run at him and jump on him. She usually has a problem with me. It was great to watch and I know he LOVED IT!!!

Driven at the Mustard Seed

2009-12-08T15:46:00.000-08:00

Mike's band, Driven, has been putting in a lot of hours perfecting their sound! They are AWESOME! We had a night out without kids last month and had a great time! Here is Lamar on rhythm guitar, Brian on lead vocals, and of course my honey Mike on drums. They were loud and awesome!!

Mike
Here is Joe, Chuck (Amanda's husband), Jonny, and Sonya... they were totally lovin' the show!

Mom had a night out without Dad... he had to get up early for opening season for deer.

Sisters! Me, Traci, and Amanda.

Announcing...

2009-10-17T09:57:00.000-07:00

I was a cheater and snuck down to Radiology the other day and got a sneak peak ultrasound. It revealed that we will be having a beautiful bouncing baby BOY! Everyone is sooooo excited! I didn't get any pictures printed so you'll have to wait till November 11th when I get the real ultrasound! Also... sorry about the lack of posting. My camera is on the fritz and we haven't been able to replace it. Hopefully I'll get caught up soon! Until then hope every one is doing well!!

Baby Foley

2009-09-09T13:04:00.000-07:00

Here it is... Baby Foley! I had an ultrasound today that revealed me to be about 11 weeks and 1 day along. That will put us right about April 1st. More to come later!

Happy Birthday Kali!!

2009-09-09T12:47:00.000-07:00

We finally wrapped up birthday season with Kali's 3rd birthday. She was such a happy birthday girl and it was a wonderful day!!

Wubbzy cake and kickity kick ball cupcakes!! :-)
She opened all of her cards first... she was very patient!

She said THANKS!! To everyone that gave her a gift... very polite!!

Grandpa Coldwell made this super cute dollhouse! She adores it!!

Among other gifts she also got a hot pink Mini-Cooper battery operated car that she's not too sure of yet but we will work on getting pictures and video later!!

Birthday Season

2009-08-28T06:47:00.001-07:00

Kimberly and Nathan's birthday's are in the same month and they are only 11 months apart. That makes for a careful planning for parties!! Now they are too old to combine parties and prefer to do stuff with friends. So, that means that in August this year we had a party every 2 weeks leading into Kali's party the first weekend of September. Speaking of Kali, she has been very very helpful in making the cakes this year!!

Let me taste the frosting to make sure it's safe!! :-)
"Go ahead and put it on the cake... I approve!"

Nathan's cake. It was stuffed with homemade cake batter ice cream. We were rushed in putting it together due to a couple of setbacks. It wasn't a pretty cake but it sure was tasty!!

Happy 12th Birthday Nathan!!

Again Kali was very helpful in making Kimberly's cake... testing the frosting is her favorite!!

Yummy!

Ta Dahhhh! Patrick Starfish! Not to shabby if I do say so myself!!

Check out the hat! She LOVED the cake!!

Happy 13th Birthday Kimberly!

Sleep over with cousin Kaelyn!

2009-08-08T21:31:00.000-07:00

Kaelyn has started sleeping over at our house every once in a while and it's a lot of fun... they get so hyper and fired up and then... all of a sudden... they crash!

Ever since Kaelyn noticed we have a big tub she's been begging to take a swimming bath! Well, she got her wish! Here is Kaelyn and Kali splashing around in the whirlpool tub.

They LOVED IT!!
Time to brush your teeth...

Cheesing it up after brushing teeth!

AAANNNNDDDD this is what they did in the morning!! :-)

Deanna Rose Farmstead

2009-08-08T21:21:00.001-07:00

Deanna Rose Farmstead has become a great and free day trip with the weather is nice!! Here are some great pictures of one of our many trips to the farm!

Mike's cousin Sarah and her boys Bryce (the little guy), and Beau came up from Nailer, Mo and were excited to see what the farm was all about!

Kali is obsessed with the goats!!

Awww Mommy... a Baby Cow!!

Kimberly is trying to compose herself... the cow was trying to eat her shirt!

The goats fight to get the bottles!

Mrs Hoppy the Frog!

2009-06-12T12:33:00.000-07:00

Kali woke up from her nap the other day to find that I had caught her a little frog and put it in a container with holes in it. She was so excited about it that we went out back to see if we could find some more. She was soooo funny! Enjoy the pictures and videos just as I enjoyed capturing them!

LOOK Mommy!! Mrs Frog!

Oops... he jumped out of her hand and on to her leg!!

She is waiting to patiently for the little frog!

Here she is trying to catch her little friend!

Summer fun!

2009-06-12T12:21:00.001-07:00

This is our second year planting a garden. Since these pictures were taken everything has come up and is looking good! We currently have 5 different types of pumpkins in the ground, green beans, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos, watermelon, cantaloupe, and cucumbers! YUMMY!!

Heading out to the garden to see if she can "help" in any way!! :-)

Planting green beans!! Yummy! Kimberly and Nathan love the beans more than anything else that comes from our garden...they love to help!

A little water helps the seeds grow!

Still lovin' the mower with her daddy!!

There is always time for sidewalk chalk!!

Kali sees Daddy sweep after he mows. She wanted to help!

Mean yes I know to take this picture... even more mean that I'm posting it... but how cute is this? Sometimes when we're putting on PJs Kali likes to run away "nakey"!!

Trip to Deanna Rose Farmstead

2009-05-20T08:18:00.000-07:00

Kali and I tagged along when Libby's preschool went to Deanna Rose Farmstead. It was so much fun and a perfect day for all of the animals to be out. Can't wait to go again!

First time Kali has ever seen a live bunny in person. She kept calling Libby over to see.

Kali and Landon were obsessed with the baby animals... here is a baby goat that was kept away from the big ones in the petty area. They were giggling!

You can feed bottles to the baby goats!

Gotta be careful though... they get crazy and crowd anyone

with a bottle! Big boy in on a big swing!!

Little Friends

Disney On Ice

2009-05-20T08:11:00.000-07:00

Ashley and I took the kids to Disney on Ice April 4th. They had so much fun!! The show consisted of Mickey and the gang, Lion King, Lilo and Stitch, Peter Pan, and The Little Mermaid! Pictures of the show didn't turn out very well so here are a couple of cute pics from intermission.

Spidey Girl!!

2009-05-20T08:08:00.000-07:00

Kali has a new found obsession with Spiderman!! Sooooo, for Easter she got a pair of Spidey jammies. She LOVES THEM! Here she is enjoying a carpet picnic for breakfast!

Old Pictures From EASTER!! Super Cute!!

2009-05-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

A week before Easter my friend Ashley called and asked if we were going to the Raymore Easter Egg Hunt... my answer was well we are now! We rushed around and got there just in time! Kali was able to meet up with her friends Libby and Landon, and Maci and Sadie. What a fun morning!!

Kali found a really big egg and insisted I bring it home... it was purely for decoration.

Here are Kali, Libby, and Landon sitting on those big eggs! Maci is hiding behind Landon and Sadie refused to get into the picture!! :0)

What a HAM!! This dress is from he 2nd birthday... still fits and still cute!!

Foley Outing!

2009-04-18T06:53:00.000-07:00

Mike's cousin Kristie got married Easter weekend... so that means the Foley's had an outing!! We all were dressed up and had a good time. Congrats Kristie and Tiant... welcome to the family!

She was worn out from all of the dancing.
A little out of order but Kali and I went outside before everyone else was ready to leave. She strapped herself into the front seat and said OKAY LETS GO!! Funny girl!

Kim and Nate being silly!

Kali and Kaelyn dancing... they were so cute and everyone got up to watch them. So cute!

Uncle Ray and Joseph

These two goofballs kept getting running to the door trying to bust out!!

Kali loves it when Kimberly makes this face at her. She was pretty excited when I was able to help her make a "similar" face!

Our little people that aren't so little anymore!

Rock Chalk!!

2009-03-25T19:50:00.000-07:00

This picture makes me proud... Papa Coldwell will take quite a liking to it as well!!

2009-03-25T19:32:00.000-07:00

Kali is a movie-aholic these days. She has started memorizing some of the dialogue too. The lastest and greatest for her is Madagascar 2... and here is her version of the famous part with the hippos,"Who's your friend or is that your butt?"

It just doesn't sound right when I'm at the store and my two year old is saying "butt" over and over again. She thinks she is soooooo funny!!

And sooooo cute too!!

Soccer season has begun...

2009-03-16T04:09:00.000-07:00

Well... we were supposed to knock out 2 games this week. The game in Blue Springs was cancelled as of last Tuesday due to poor field conditions from all of the rain. THEN the game on Sunday in Belton was cancelled due to standing water on the fields as of Friday. Amazingly Kimberly and Nathan were not overly upset by the idea of another free weekend! By my eyes the fields were really nice on Sunday here in Belton... I know because we spent 4 hours at the park and it is right next to the fields... and there was a group of 10 guys/teens playing a pick-up game of soccer on the same field we were supposed to be playing on. ODD huh?? So anyhow this probably means that we'll be playing on Mother's Day weekend... NEAT! :-\

Sound the horns.....

2009-03-14T10:31:00.001-07:00

Kali finally went PEE PEE in the potty!! I caught her with a dry diaper this morning and she was very willing to sit on the potty and low and behold she successfully went pee!!! Now since then we've changed a couple of wet diapers but for now I'm happy with her being willing to sit on the potty and one successful attempt under our belt... or rather under the lid!! :-P

BIG baby!!

2009-03-14T10:26:00.000-07:00

This is an odd picture!! Kali wanted to be held like a baby so I wrapped her up nice and tight!! Notice the binkie?? She plays with it but doesn't really suck on it... it was totally for effect! :-)

When I took this picture she was trying to squeeze out... I had her in nice and tight!!

Bunny Love!!

2009-03-14T10:15:00.000-07:00

Aunt Traci got Kali this super cute bunny as an early Easter gift. She LOVES it!! Here she is on her Diego car... she won't put it down!! Thanks Aunt Traci... I love you!!!

Bad Driver!!

2009-02-25T18:09:00.000-08:00

Ummmm, if she is anything like this when she's 16 Daddy gets to teach her to drive!! Yikes! Don't worry... the big car escaped with no dents and Kali did not drive into the street!

Cutie!

2009-02-25T18:07:00.000-08:00

I took this picture today... I just love it!!

Making the rounds...

2009-02-25T18:00:00.000-08:00

Kali gets to spend a lot of time with Nana and Papa Foley because we live in the same town as them. Every so often we made a trip up North to get some Coldwell time in!! Here are a few pics of Grandma and Papa Coldwell.

This is the goofy Papa!! :-)

She loves to crawl in bed with Grandma with a snack... grapes this time... and relax! Grandma always puts on a movies for her. She has a good time!

Grandma sure does love Kali!! Kali loves to cuddle with Grandma!!

Winter Fun!!

2009-02-25T17:53:00.000-08:00

This has been a mild but long winter! We've been creative on keeping busy!! :-)

Indoor fishing??
Here kitty kitty... cat fish on the stairs??

Kali loves loves loves her movies! She loves movies better than TV and here she is with a copy of Cinderella. Oh yeah, and check out the super cute hat from Aunt Cherie and Uncle George.

Ahhhh... what a cute face!

Random Pictures!

2009-01-28T19:18:00.000-08:00

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!!

2009-01-16T16:24:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-01-16T16:21:00.000-08:00

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??

2009-01-16T16:18:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-01-16T16:12:00.000-08:00

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!!

2009-01-01T13:43:00.000-08:00

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!!

Cookie Central

2008-12-28T16:47:00.000-08:00

We made Christmas cookies Tuesday night before Christmas and boy was it an adventure. After we got the prepackaged dough out I realized that i had everything except for cutters!! :- It was interesting. We used skewers to cut out our shapes... which didn't work out very well but we made due!

Who wants to help clean up this mess??

Kali liked that I had a bowl of flour on the table!

She also LOVED using the rolling pin! Poor Nathan.. he made the perfect pac-man and she flattened it right away!! :-)

Kimberly was soooo careful with shaping her cookies.

Kali not so much...

Nathan took the little bit of everything approach.

And then we named it the "Sugar Turd!"

She was so proud of her cookies. She did a great job!!

Kali wanted to lick all of the icing off of Santa's face! Funny girl!

Snow Angel...

2008-12-28T16:41:00.000-08:00

A couple of years ago I dared Nathan to run out into the snow without a shirt and do a snow angel! It was his time again!! What a good sport...

How much is that Kitty in the Christmas tree??

2008-12-28T16:36:00.000-08:00

This year Kitty was obsessed with actually climbing up into the tree. Can you spot her??

Luckily the tree never did fall down!

Party Girl!!

2008-12-17T05:21:00.000-08:00

Kali and I went to Adrienne and Brent's wedding last weekend. It was BEAUTIFUL! She was a stunning bride and he was so handsome and glowing when he saw his new wife. We wish them nothing but happiness!

The ceremony was beautiful and for the most part Kali was quiet.

After eating some good grub Kali was ready for cake! The only problem was that they hadn't cut the cake yet. Kai threatened to stick her finger in the cake when Brent offered up the slice that he had just cut. That's right, they were at the head table eating cake before everyone else. I guess that's a perk to it being YOUR wedding! Anyhow, Brent had taken one bit of cake and then offered it up to Kali. SO here she is sitting on the floor chowing down on her cake! Thanks guys so much... it really made her day!!
She did leave me one or two bites and I have to say that it was AMAZING!!

Kali was so sweet when it came time to say goodbye to Adrienne. She gave her a big kiss on the cheek and this big hug! What a big girl!!

On the way to the car Kali found this huge leaf... she thought she was big time! It's bigger than her head.

Splish Splash!

2008-12-14T14:36:00.000-08:00

Little Pee-wee was taking a bath the other morning and I couldn't figure out why she was screaming... well here it is. She can entertain herself with just about anything these days. She was looking in the shower mirror and screaming at her reflection. Crazy kid!

Dancing Diva

2008-12-14T14:33:00.000-08:00

Mike is very proud to know that Kali loves rock music! I finally captured her little dancing feet... and her droopy diaper!! Enjoy.

Gingerbread... er graham cracker... houses '08!

2008-12-14T14:22:00.000-08:00

We attempted to make our version of gingerbread houses with graham crackers this weekend. Mike does not have a house represented because it is still under construction. Being as he draws house plans for a living you can expect a pretty extravagant house when it's all said and done! Until then here are three exciting houses to entertain you all!

Kimberly and Destiny made this work of art! They decided that a flat roof was more sturdy? Um do you notice that the entire right side is collapsed?? I think that they may rethink that idea next year??!!

This is Nathan's house. He went for the barn look. He says that the candy on top is similar to the Plaza Lights! I like the element of the open barn door!

Here is the house that Kali and I constructed! It's kind of bare because she started to
throw a fit and we didn't get o finish. Oh well! Check out my mailbox!! :-)

Silly Kitty!!

2008-12-14T14:16:00.000-08:00

Kitty loves to get into small spaces! This bin was on the floor in our bedroom with an old backpack in it... random yes I know... and low and behold we found her sleeping in it! I heard Coco whining standing outside of the bin! She LOVES to torture Coco!!

Time to decorate for Christmas!

2008-12-04T21:09:00.000-08:00

We put the tree up the day after Thanksgiving and it was fun! We got a new 9 foot tree this year and I found that I almost didn't have enough decorations for it!

I'm having a hard time keeping that darn star straight on the top of the tree!

Here's the three little Foley's... Kali, Kimberly, and cousin Kaelyn. This is a classic Foley Christmas time picture. Aren't they cute??!!

Winter Wonderland!?

2008-12-04T20:51:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we got a package in the mail that was full of packing peanuts. As a diversionary measure to get out of the door without Kali I settled her in our room with the box. Mike soon called me on my cell phone thanking me for sharing the packing peanuts with her. Of course I told him he HAD to document the fun!! I guess she was treating the foam peanuts like they were snow flakes! What and imagination!!

This is the aftermath of our bedroom! Kimberly was a champ and helped clean them up... after she herself tried to make a snow-angel! Too bad I didn't get a picture of that one!! :-)

Coco... look at what I found!!

2008-11-24T04:12:00.000-08:00

We took a walk to the back yard the other day and Kali found a little branch off of a tree... and then thought it would be funny to smack the ground and threaten to smack Coco-Baby with the stick! He actually appears to be having fun with it... maybe because she never actually made contact with his head like I'm sure she intended too! Kind of rough play but cute none the less!

Enjoy the weather before it's gone!

2008-11-24T04:06:00.000-08:00

With Christmas comes the very long aisle of animals that sing and dance to Christmas songs! Kali has taken a serious liking to these little fellas! Here she is pushing her newest doggie around in her stroller the other day. The temp outside was 50-ish and we weren't about to let it go to waste. I had to stop and push his paw occasionally... she loved it!

Crazy bath hair!

2008-11-13T06:50:00.000-08:00

Check out that crazy hair do!! Kali's hair is getting so long and when we get lucky she lets us put it up dry too!

Target Shooting

2008-11-13T06:26:00.000-08:00

Nathan has a bee-bee gun that he has hardly ever used. The other day he brought it up and so we set up a target just off the patio and here we are. Nathan went dove hunting with Mike, Grandpa Coldwell, Uncle Chuck, Uncle Chad, and Uncle Ray back in September. We're hoping to get him into a hunter safety course soon so we can be sure that he respects the power of guns.

Daddy had to make sure that it was working right! :-)
Nathan taking a shot.

Kali wanted a turn! She had to stay on the "observation deck" while Daddy and Nathan were target shooting. She was not too happy about it but we got through it eventually!

Kali said "Nathan how come Daddy's shots are closer to the middle?"

Nathan says "See look... Mine are in the middle... and Daddy's are NOT!"

Alone Time

2008-11-13T06:16:00.001-08:00

Sometimes when I'm cooking or cleaning in the kitchen, Kali makes her way to Coco's Corner! As toys have moved into every corner of the living room... Coco's bed has made it's way to the kitchen. This day Kali found her little hat from California Nana, of which is way too small, and I just had to snap some pictures. This is what she does when she has her alone time, her quiet time. She seems to have such a good time with such a simple "toy". Funny girl!

She caught on that I was snapping pictures! Check out that look!!

YEAH!!

2008-11-06T20:50:00.000-08:00

Okay so most you know know that Mike works in the residential design business.... and most of you know know not so lucrative that market is these days..... and also most of you know that he's in school for Web Design. WELL... today Mike went on an interview for a job as an entry level programmer at and E-Commerce company. You know, the companies that set up the ability for on-line shoppers to punch in that little number at the bottom of your plastic card to buy something off of a website. Anyhow, it's the start of something wonderful! Just in time for Christmas too!! :-) Cross your fingers guys... we could really use another steady paycheck.

Halloween Night

2008-11-01T15:32:00.000-07:00

Okay so we all have an idea of how we want things to go right? Well they didn't go how I planned, that's for sure! I had to work on Halloween and dressed up and had a good day. When I got home I found that Nathan wasn't feeling well and didn't want to trick or treat. Kimberly had taken off to hang out with her friends down the street, and Kali wanted no part of her costume!! So, no pictures of the ladybug costume... yet! I don't care what the season, if I can get her into the costume again I will take a picture and post it. Kali did get to go trick or treating and had a good time! Uncle Ray, Aunt Tisha, Kaelyn, and Joseph all came over and we went trick or treating up and down the street. Kali wore her pumpkin shirt and matching pants and yes still looked cute! I am posting the picture of her and I from the Halloween party the Saturday before because this is what she wore. I was wearing my scrubs last night but still the wings and antenna so it's almost exactly the same! In the middle of the night Kali woke up and was cranky but at the same time was begging for "Trick or Treat!" I guess that means she had a good time??

Pumpkin Patch Sweetie Pie!

2008-11-01T15:11:00.001-07:00

I took Kali to Johnson's Farm last Tuesday. It's a pumpkin patch/petting zoo and lots of other stuff. Kimberly and Nathan seem to be getting too old for the pumpkin patch, so it was just Kali and me while Nathan was at school. She had so much fun!!!

She LOVED LOVED LOVED the chicken house!
She kept chasing the gray and white one pointing to him and saying "I want dat un!" So cute!! She eventually caught up to him and was able to touch his back. That got a big giggle out of her!

Inside of the barn was a bunch of little surprises. This was was a little donkey. Kali wanted to take him out and love on him. Go figure they said no! :-) We also saw a little pony, baby chicks, and a new litter of piglets! I was afraid to take pictures of the piglets because the huge mama pig was laying up next to the babies on the other side of the gate and I didn't want her to charge at me. She was soooo big!

Goats were her favorite... she loved it that they would get up on the fence and let her hug them. I was a big nervous when they were up in her face and so I wasn't able to take a picture of that... I was afraid of one nibbling on one of those cute little ears!!

She was a huge fan of the big pumpkins! And look at how cute she looks sitting on them!

I wish I could have filmed her running through the patch. She kept oohing and ahhing at so many different pumpkins. Even the ones that were smashed and eaten off of got her attention. The biggest crowd pleasers are by far the "baby punkins" for sure. She ended up picking out the cutest little round pie pumpkin. She caries it around the house all day long. I tried to put it out on the porch and she wasn't having it!!

To get up to the actual pumpkin patch we got to ride on a cart pulled by a tractor. On the way up Kali thought she was hot stuff and stood the whole time. I had to hold her hands and so there is no picture... but here she is riding back. She was too tired to stand! :0)

One quick plane ride before we head home for a nap!

4th Annual Haunted Halloween Party

2008-10-29T20:32:00.000-07:00

Ahh, the party has come and gone! We started out this tradition 4 years ago when Mike promised a haunted house in the garage. We threw it together over night and the kids loved it! Now that we've come this far it takes a month of planning and then many nights of construction. The kids go nuts when they can't come into the garage because it's a surprise! Oh what a good time we had!!

The spread! We had hot dogs, hamburgers, bone shaped bread sticks, choc covered pretzels, body part jello from Grandma Coldwell, frog eye roll-ups, veggies and dip, rotel, and lots of chips and popcorn! What a good time. Nana Foley and Tisha made wonderful cookies and brownies. All of our guests brought fabulous snacks to share. Thanks guys and we can't wait till next year!!

Kaelyn was a 50s waitress... so cute!!

When everyone started going through the haunted house Cayleigh from down the street didn't have anyone to go with. Everyone was too scared! Soooo, I said I'd go. The trick there was that I had gone through it many many times while they were making it!! I have to say that they did an amazing job!! The haunted house took: 1 gallon of fake blood, 4 tombstones, 1 bale of hay, 12 rolls of gorilla tape, 60 dresser sized boxes, and 4 30 something guys having a good old time!! The kids were scared and lovin it! Most of them asked if they could come back again next year. There were only 3 kids that refused to go through. That tells me it was a success!! :-)

Cayleigh eventually went through by herself.

The boys were more scared than their faces revealed in this picture. Here is Nathan in the back and Kyle up front.

And this is what was chasing them out of the haunted house!! I hear that Sean had some serious knee swelling after that night!!

We tried to do bobbing for apples as kids were coming out of the haunted house. Well, once the big kids got around to the barrel no one wanted to eat the apples. Kali and Landon decided that the game was all about grabbing the apples, biting the apples, then dropping the apples! If they weren't so cute while they were doing it I would have stopped them!

"Which one do we eat next?" Do you see the bite marks?

So nice that they can share! Actually I think that Kali was trying to take the apple from Landon. She has turned into a little diva...it's all for her!

Aftermath of "Toddler Apple Bobbing"! She was soaking wet and shivering. Time for some warm jammies!

I tried to take a cute picture of Kiley and the kids and well... Nathan jumped in! This was one of the masks in the haunted house!! Creepy huh?

Before bed Kali decided to stir up the popcorn treats and "dish" them out for later! This was sooo yummy! I took a bag of freshly popped corn, still hot, and dropped it into a big bowl. Then I dumped half a bag of chocolate chips, half a bag of marshmallows, and gold fish into the bowl and mixed it up! It was a huge hit!!

Stickers

2008-10-27T04:03:00.001-07:00

For some strange reason if you give Kali stickers this is what she does with them!! Enjoy!!

Pumpkin Festival

2008-10-27T03:54:00.000-07:00

Belton has a little "Pumpkin Festival" every year in the Fall and this year it was just me and Kali to go. She was alright with that because she made some new friends!!

Kali made lots of friends that night!! One in particular was this goat in the petting zoo. He was kind of a bully and wouldn't let any of the other goats get a snack. Kali was okay with that though because he was her friend!!

The best part was that we were able to bring one of her friends home with us! She really wanted Dora to sit in the car seat but eventually settled for next to the car seat!

**Sad to say but Dora popped two days after this photo!**

Bike Update...

2008-10-07T12:52:00.000-07:00

Well, it happened! This weekend when Kimberly was home she did what no one else could do... she taught Nathan to RIDE HIS BIKE!!! I don't have any pictures as of yet but don't you worry, they will be coming soon!! He's so funny. Mike went out to watch him on Sunday and kept reminding him to look out in front of him a few yards instead of looking at his front tire. Just as he looked up he ran into the fire hydrant. Another time he forgot to use his break and side swiped a telephone pole. Go figure! Before he was scared to even try to ride his bike for fear of falling off and getting hurt... now I worry for the mailboxes and light poles in our neighborhood. In short he is sooooo happy and can't understand why he didn't learn earlier... I guess that parents are sometimes right??!!

Kali and her Shisher!

2008-10-06T07:24:00.000-07:00

Kimberly was home this weekend and Kali got some serious play time in. They get so silly together and can play for hours.

Silly sisters! Kali kept trying to pick Kimberly up. She was grunting and calling her "heaby"!!

This is one of Kimberly's many entrances into the bedroom! She kept going out into the loft and then rushing in to make Kali laugh and squeal!! I believe that this one caused her to crash on the carpet a couple of times!
This one is funny and kinda scary at the same time!

If Kali's crying Kimberly just needs to make this face and she stops. I think I saw this face 100 times this weekend. She made the face all weekend, even when Kali wasn't crying!

This face was paired with a big squeal!

She didn't want me to post this but I just HAD to! Kimberly kept coming up with new ways to rush into Kali's room to scare her and make her laugh. This one was the most creative... and the strangest.

Now is Kali's turn to race in and scare Kimberly. She was growling and of course the tongue was sticking out as is always!!

Soccer Cuties

2008-10-05T13:33:00.000-07:00

With working my weekends and having a bye week I finally got to a soccer game two weeks ago. So far they are undefeated after 5 games. Three more to go!

My camera isn't great for action shots so these are all that I have for now! Aren't they soooo cute?

Snack Time

2008-10-05T13:22:00.000-07:00

A guaranteed snack that Kali will always eat is a tortilla. Pull one out of the fridge and she comes running... she will eat most of one of these burrito sized shells!

This is Kali's newest obsession... she likes to like up all of her letters on the fridge. I like to mix up the letters and see how long it takes her to notice and then fix them again! :-)

Almost there...

2008-10-05T13:12:00.000-07:00

Nathan and Mike have been working on conquering the bike. Nathan can almost get going! He's always been so afraid of falling and getting hurt. We got him a new bike this summer and he's finally interested in learning. So... hopefully I'll have a different picture to show soon!!

Welcome Little Sophia Asante

2008-10-03T11:51:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the world little Sophia Julianna Asante! Mike's cousin had her baby 3 weeks early, a week before the Foley's threw her a shower. Sooooo that just meant that we had a little guest of honor. What a sweet tiny baby! We at a fabulous brunch thanks to Nana Foley and Miss Sophia took a little nap. Enjoy the pictures.

Silly Kaelyn! She and Kali were bouncing off of the couches while us ladies were preparing brunch! Check out the sucker that was fueling her! :-)

Sophia slept through all of the kisses that Kali was giving her. She was mesmerized by her little hand on her cheek. She was amazingly gentle with her. That's good to know for the future...

She sleeping...

Four generations plus Kali and Kaelyn had to get in on the photo op! Cute kids are always seeking out the cameras!! Look at how tiny Sophia is next to tiny Kali! Maybe Kali isn't so little to me anymore!

Dora Keeps on Going!!

2008-10-03T11:45:00.000-07:00

This picture was taken 3 weeks after Kali's birthday when she got this Dora balloon. She keeps finding new ways to play with the slowly deflating Dora! Here I put Dora under the baker's rack since it still had enough air to float up to our vaulted ceiling where she would stay until completely deflating... which would lead to lots of crying at our house. So anyhow, Dora found herself a friend and apparently someone to feed her! Kali climbed her little tooshie under the baker's rack herself and got comfy!! She's so funny!!

Helping Daddy

2008-10-03T11:13:00.000-07:00

Kali loves to ride the tractor with Daddy. She will stand at the back door and wait patiently... okay not patiently... until I take her out and put her on his lap. On this day Baby got a ride too!

CUTE!!

2008-09-17T14:21:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures of playing outside.

She's finally getting the hang of her Dora tricycle so we decided to try out the Pooh helmet that seems to have found it's way into our garage. She loved it for a little bit!

Doesn't she just look super cute?

I guess you're never TOO old...

2008-09-17T14:12:00.000-07:00

The other day Kali threw a fit when we started out for a walk... and so instead of pushing around a crying kid I turned around... and with tears streaming down her face... took Kali out of the stroller and we played at the house instead. I figured I would try to make sense of the clutter in the garage, including putting away the exersaucer from 12 months ago. Cousin Joseph was using it and returned it a few weeks ago. Kali insisted on getting in! Check out her hair!! Pony tails are a wrestling match these days. :-) Enjoy the pictures.

This wasn't "I want out" ... she was screeching at me for taking her picture!!

Even on the tallest setting she couldn't stand up!! After about 30 minutes she finally was okay with getting out and playing with her big girl toys.

Congrats Misty!

2008-09-15T15:36:00.000-07:00

This weekend Kali and I went to Misty's bridal shower. Amanda and Misty have been best friends since 3rd grade. Congratulations Misty and David!

The shower started off with Kali getting a puppy and carrier from Grandma and Papa Coldwell. Grandma is very very good at spoiling Kali! The puppy is a little girl Yorkie and she named it Coco Baby just like our dog. She's so funny with it and pulls it around by the leash.

One of Misty's cousin's kept feeding Kali icing off of her cake... lucky for Kali she didn't like the icing!!
See Mama... my hands are dirty! Kali can't stand to have dirty hands!!

Kali is really good at tracking down the next youngest kid in the room! This is Misty's cousin Alyssa... she was a good sport and played with Kali throughout the shower.

She would not leave Alyssa's side!

"HI MAMA!!"

Kali was so excited every time that Misty opened a gift. She would yell out "OOOHHHHH!" Come to think about it she didn't even do that at her own birthday party! Maybe we should have bought her housewares instead of toys for her birthday??

She just couldn't get enough!!

Aunt Manny co-hosted the party... good job! It was a lot of fun!!

Dora likes to shop!

2008-09-12T14:24:00.000-07:00

The balloon that I got for Kali for her birthday is still holding on and still mostly full of air. She likes to drag it around like it's a life sized Dora to play with. Here she is taking Dora shopping!

Playing house...

2008-09-12T14:15:00.001-07:00

Kali got this Dora house from Aunt Traci for her birthday. Apparently she thinks that it's

"life sized" and can accommodate her little tooshy!

"Dora.. Boots.. KISS"

Watch Me Play!

2008-09-12T14:10:00.000-07:00

Kali plays so well on her own. This is from Wednesday morning before bath time. I had gotten her down to her diaper and she took off and I found her here at the Dora House!!

This may not be the most interested post I have ever done but it's cute to watch her play!

Krazy Kids!

2008-09-12T13:58:00.001-07:00

I worked 5 out of the last 8 days and in the middle of that little stretch I came home to a couple of goofy kids!! Mike forewarned me that Nathan had been working on something for a while. Funny thing is that he had his computer taken away for a few days and was kind of FORCED to do something creative!!

Here is Nathan demonstrating his "redneck bench press"...
and now the redneck curl bar!

Finally the redneck javelin! He is so funny sometimes!

I left the fridge open for a second because I had a lot of stuff in my hands and turned around to see this...

Kali had gotten into the lunch meat/cheese drawer and helped herself to a slice of cheese.

And then fed it to Coco! Boy was he excited for the unexpected treat!!

Come on in... there's plenty of room!

2008-09-08T20:04:00.000-07:00

Kali got a Dora Butterfly Garden ball pit for her birthday. Here is Kali and Kimberly trying it out. They played and played and played this weekend when Kimberly was home.

Happy Birthday Kali!!

2008-09-08T19:47:00.001-07:00

Well, it happened! She turned two... she is no longer a baby. Kali Ruth is officially a big girl toddler. Since turning 2 on September 5, 2008 at 4:10 am, she has been so lively and well, sassy is for sure the word. She is having full on conversations with everyone and I love it! She plays with her babies: feeding them, trying to change their diapers, and putting them to sleep. When did this transformation happen? I'm sad that she is growing up so fast but at the same time so very excited to see how she grows and changes over the years. Happy Birthday Kali!!

Aunt Traci was bidding for the favorite gift again. Last year she got Kali a little rocking pony that sings when you pinch it's ears. Kali still runs to it and wants to ride it. Here is the Dora Playhouse... she LOVES IT! As you can see she is trying to get inside of it through the front door.

Grandma Coldwell surprised us with the crib that her grandpa made her when she was 2. Then me and my sisters played with it when we were little. Now that I have a little one it was time to pass it on! Mom played a trick on me saying that she couldn't find the crib and that she thought that Dad had thrown it away. She brought it out when we started opening presents... it was a wonderful surprise! I have memories of tucking out kitty into this crib in the basement when we first moved to Missouri... I hope she loves it as much as I always did! Thanks Mom and Dad!!

I had her interested in opening presents for a few minutes.
Then it was back to playing with her babies! Kaelyn and I opened up most of Kali's presents ourselves. Kali is very easily distracted by her babies!!

Look at her dress. Nana Foley made it for her. See the big pink buttons? They are Kali's favorite part. She pinches them to make them touch and then touches them to her nose.

Here is the cake. She was soooo excited to see that she had a Dora cake.

She tried to blow out the candles... Mama had to help a little bit!!

In all Kali really just wanted to play with her babies. She is such a good Mama!

Brother and Sister LOVE!

2008-09-03T20:42:00.001-07:00

Since Kimberly moved in with her mom, Kali has started getting interested in playing with Nathan. Now, when Kimberly comes home Nathan gets pushed aside! :-) Sorry Nathan, the girls have to stick together! Anyhow, here are some cute pictures of Nathan and Kali.

**Please excuse the clutter of our living room, an almost 2 year old really knows how to clutter up a room like I never ever realized!**

Nathan really likes the purple Dora chair!!
He watched almost and entire movie in that chair! Grandma Coldwell did say that it would hold up to 100lbs!

Cuddle time! In the evening she HAS to be where he is and doing what he is doing. Half the time Nathan is annoyed, most of the time he loves it! Don't get too comfy Nate Dawg... Sister comes home this weekend!! :-)

Goofy afternoon!

2008-09-03T20:28:00.000-07:00

Sometimes we just laugh and act silly... today I documented some of it!

We started off before bath time wearing Manny's hat. She constantly pulls it on her head and chases me around the house yelling out... Manny's hat... Manny's hat! She loves it and especially loves that it used to be Manny's hat!
We were rolling around on the floor and just started shooting pictures... Man oh man she is so much fun!!

She sticks her tongue out ALL THE TIME like I did when I was little. My mom keeps telling me that she is sooooo much the way I was!! If that is so then she is on to great things! :-)

Her raspberry is a little bit more subdued than mine!

Kali said: "All done Mama"

She can be so cute doing so little!

2008-09-03T20:20:00.000-07:00

Kali has a baby that she carries everywhere with her. We take it to Mom and Me class at the gym, it goes to dinner when we go out, and for sure it goes to the store and rides in the school bus cart!

Check out Kali and the 50 cent garage sale baby watching Dora together!
She caught me with the camera and tried to steal it... I won she lost! And what a cute picture that came out of the wrestling match!

Labor Day Shoot Out!!

2008-09-02T06:25:00.000-07:00

For Labor Day this year, all of the guys went dove hunting up North. Here is the role call: Grandpa Coldwell, Uncle Chuck, Uncle Chad, Uncle Ray, Mike, Nathan, and Clayton. The guys were up super super early because according to Papa Coldwell you have to be in the field 45 minutes before dawn. In all 7 dove were shot and 5 were retrieved. Mike oopsied and shot a blackbird... they didn't bring that one home! He states that he was just warming up! Below is a movie of Nathan shooting a big shotgun for the second time. If you know anything about guns you'll know that his legs are too close together and he's lucky that he didn't fall down. They had a really good time and Nathan can't wait to go again!!

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It sounds like Nathan shot the gun three times but it really was only one shot, at the end when he bucks back!

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Happy Birthday Kimberly!!

2008-08-26T12:34:00.000-07:00

Kimberly came home from her mom's this last weekend and we had her party a few days early. She had two of her good friends over, Destiny and Cayleigh. They started out the night with a good old scavenger hunt.

The girls went door to door in the neighborhood...
and even scavenged in backyards and gardens! It was a lot of fun and they got to know some of our neighbors. They were back in 20 minutes and had every single item on the 30 item list!

After the scavenger hunt they found a little friend... Toad-a-liscious... and they made him a little home! The next day they found the lid open and an empty home... Toady got out!! :-(

Instead of cake Kimberly requested cupcakes and wanted to decorate them as an activity. Here is Kali biting into a cupcake... the wrong way!

Here are the girls... and Nathan... decorating cupcakes.

She was poking sticks into the cupcakes. She saw the big kids poking their cupcakes to put candy under the frosting. She's so funny!!!

Yummy!!

Nathan was acting so goofy with Kimberly's new bracelets. Daddy didn't want this one posted. Funny that I'm the only one with the password!! :-)

Happy Birthday Kimberly!!

Aren't they lovely??

Crib Time

2008-08-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

Kali wanted in her bed the other morning to play. She wouldn't get out and kept telling me bye bye mama.

Check out the hair!!

If only she would do this at night and stay in her bed?! She still wakes up in the night and will only go back to sleep in our bed!! Arg!!

First Day of School!!

2008-08-26T11:35:00.000-07:00

Nathan started school Tuesday, September 19th. He's on his own this year since Kimberly decided to try things out in Independence with her mom. We'll see how that goes and if she comes back next year as she has already predicted. Back to Nathan... he did really well his first morning. Over the summer he has changed a bit a no longer is a breakfast kind of guy. I worry about his concentration with not eating but he assures me it will be ALL GOOD! So.. here are some pics from waiting for the bus.

How cute is this picture?

Oh no! Here comes Shanna with the camera again!! Kali doesn't seem to mind.

Off to the first day of 5th grade!!

Crazy girl!

2008-08-18T21:41:00.000-07:00

Here is Miss Kali running around the table in her Elmo panties. Don't you worry, she had to switch to a diaper shortly after this video because they were wet!! ARG!! Oh well! Do you like the squeaky shopping cart? :=)

Camping trip to remember!

2008-08-12T09:40:00.000-07:00

When the boys couldn't camp out on Saturday, Mike promised that he would camp with Kimberly and Nathan on Monday night when I didn't have to work Tuesday. So, we left the tent up and here are the getting ready pics!!

Nathan or Monster??

I think we woke Kimberly up to go outside... she was ready in no time though!

This is how Mike dresses in the winter to stay warm. I think someone forgot to tell him that it's still August and that it's only going to get down into the mid 60s tonight! What a good laugh!

While he was dancing we were singing "We represent the Lolly Pop Kid!" He'll have something smart to say when he sees I posted this picture... oh well! It was a funny night!

Check out Mike's "camping" shoes... no bugs are getting in here!

I think that the night creatures will be more scared of this tent!

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TUESDAY MORNING UPDATE!

Well, they got out to the tent... with Kitty as an extra guest... and also found anther unwanted guest... a wasp! After Tonto, AKA Nathan, battled the wasp to the death they were all hungry and fired up. I found Mike sleeping on the couch when I got up to get Kali a drink at 4:30. He said that he was too hot in his winter get up!! Kimberly and Nathan were in their beds! Good try guys!!

Happy Birthday Nathan!!

2008-08-12T08:23:00.000-07:00

For Nathan's birthday we had a little party and he had two friends over. The plan was to sleep in the tent but with the threat of stormy weather we nixed the idea. We had a good dinner, cookie cake and ice cream, and as you'll see below played a little game of "Chubby Bunnies!" The way you play is you take big marshmallows and put on in your mouth and say 1 chubby bunny, then another and say 2 chubby bunnies... and so on! It's pretty funny to see people nearly gag themselves to get just one more marshmallow in their mouth. In all Kimberly won over the kids and I beat all of them... sorry no pics of the winner!! :-)

Kimberly ended up with 4 Chubby Bunnies and would have gone for 5 except she nearly threw up on the patio with 4! Nathan couldn't stop laughing and had to stop at 3.. they are weak!! A real pro...me... had to show them how it's done! I had 5 chubby bunnies!!

Two almost three chubby bunnies for Zach!!

One Chubby Bunny for Kali!!

Three Chubby Bunnies for Sebastian!!

Cool cookie cake huh? These kids today and their "skull" decor!!The cookie cake was yummy and Nathan got a lot of iTune's and Target gift cards.... I asked him if he wanted to take me shopping!!

Kali couldn't keep her fingers out of the icing!!

Grandma and Papa Coldwell came over to enjoy Nathan's party and brought an early birthday present for Kali as well... A Dora tricycle.

She loves her Dora Bike!!

Enjoying the nice weather...

2008-08-12T08:15:00.000-07:00

Kali just loves to play "colors" outside. We have a big box of crayola sidewalk chalk and she can't get enough of it. Today our friends Dora and Princess Dora joined us.
Kisses!!

Awww, they are so cute!

ALL DONE!!

Potty training update...

2008-08-08T21:28:00.000-07:00

Well, I am not having an easy go round with this potty training stuff! Over the last 2 days Kali has sat on the potty for 20 minute intervals... 5 or 6 times... and then had to put on clean panties 5 or 6 times!! She is so stubborn!! I will sit and read with her and we play dolls while she sits on the potty. I even ask her to please just try to peepee and so then she'll "push" so hard that her face turns red. All that she's done in the potty is toot... of which she thinks is sooooo funny! Yep, she's a Foley! So anyhow, she'll sit and tell me NO when I ask if she needs to peepee... then gets up to play and comes over to show me that her panties are wet!! What a stinker!! Any suggestions? I'm just gonna drop it, for the most part, for now. Maybe put her on the potty while the tub is filling up. I think she really isn't ready and maybe we should do the pull up route? Hmmmm, we'll see. Maybe one day she'll just sit down and do her business and that will be it? One could only hope!

Busy Morning!!

2008-08-05T12:06:00.000-07:00

Kali woke up this morning and hit the ground running! She has had so much energy in the mornings these days... maybe she's drinking my coffee when I'm not watching? Anyhow, enjoy the pictures!!

Kali just LOVES bandaids... but not to wear. She likes to open the package, look at them, take off this sticky covers, and wad them up! I caught her in the act this morning. She was running around in her diaper and looking so cute!!

BUSTED!

If this isn't a look of guilt I don't know what is!

Grandma Coldwell snuck in an early birthday present this week... a Dora chair!! When we got home with it last night she was so excited to sit in it... not so excited when she fell out of it a few minutes later! As Grandma put it, she won't have very far to fall! Doesn't she look so big in this chair!! I can't believe she's almost 2!!

New "Friend"

2008-08-04T20:27:00.001-07:00

While trading out Kimberly and Nathan's rooms the other day, Kali discovered a baby doll's binkie! And of course Kali thought it was the coolest thing! So here are some pictures of her lovin' or rather chewing on that baby binkie!

It's odd but still kinda cute!

It's just about that time...

2008-08-04T20:23:00.000-07:00

We are about ready for potty training!! I bought Miss Kali a Diego potty, and Dora potty seat to put on the big potty, and new panties!! She LOVED picking out which pair to put on. She still isn't took keen on sitting on the potty but... we'll get there!!

Check out the Elmo panties!! Who would have thought they made them THAT small!!

She loved her panties... and kept them dry for a hour! I got nervous because I didn't want her to wet on the clean sheets... so I put a diaper back on her!!

Still lovin' that car!!!

2008-08-04T20:17:00.000-07:00

It never fails! We go anywhere near the garage and Kali yells... Car... Car!! She still won't "walk" the car but she loves to sit in it in the grass. She walks to the door, opens the door, shuts the door, then blows me a kiss and says, "Bye Mama!!" What a cute pie!!

We keep finding Kitty Kitty in the car! I asked to see her license and this is the

look she gave me!! :-)

Daddy Time

2008-08-03T14:07:00.001-07:00

About a week ago Kali and Daddy had a very full day together!! I know, most dads have days alone with their kids all the time. Well, Mike is very buys with school and work. Being that he works from home he works when he has work to do. Sooooo, when I am at work, Kali goes to Nana and Papa Foley's before lunch time. In all, Daddy has not had a full day alone with Kali since she was still taking formula... that's almost a year!!! Anyhow, they started off their day with hot cakes at McDonald's and then headed off to the shoe store where Kali suckered her dear old dad into two pairs of Dora tennis shoes. They so soooo cute and she loves them very very much! Then, Daddy and Kali caught the last hour of Shrek 3 playing at the theatre. Belton has a summer movie series for camps and such, it's only a dollar, and it's always older movies. Shrek is one of Kali's all time favorites and so she sat on Daddy's lap and didn't fuss one bit! What a big girl!! After the movie they came home and shared some Dora chicken noodle soup... yummy! Papa Foley stopped by to do some tinkering and when he was done Mike asked Kali if he could "go to work" for the afternoon and she go nap with Papa. She looked at daddy and said: No! So, to round out the day Daddy and Kali took a 3 hour nap together and when I got home from work we went out for pizza. That night Kali wanted Daddy probably 75% of the time. It was so sweet and I loved that she was so in love with her Daddy for that whole day!!

Only a Foley!!

2008-07-25T14:59:00.000-07:00

When at the Chimp encolosure we noticed that the monkeys had thrown poo at the window... funny! It's funny because here at the Foley palace we like to quote the movie Madagascar: If you have poo... throw it now! Well Kali caught on that I noticed there was poop on the window and well... see for yourself!

Kali's 1st Zoo Trip!!

2008-07-23T13:15:00.000-07:00

Grandma and Papa Coldwell just HAD to ride the camel with Kali. I'm pretty sure they had more fun than Kali... or the camel for that fact!! :-)

The Australian sheep were so tame that it was perfectly alright to let Kali go up and pet them... she even hugged some of them. She was saying "Hi BaaBaa".

Grandma Coldwell was bombarded by hungry sheep after getting a handful of pellets! They weren't biting her but they sure were nudging and stepping on her feet.

Papa Coldwell did a No-No and threw grapes to the baboons! You can see the baby picking one up. They really did like them and atleast it's probably similar to what they eat normally! He was about to throw them cheetos when we stopped him!

To cool her off on this hot day I took Kali to the water fountain. After that we had to go to EVERY SINGLE water fountain we crossed! The small things in life...

Kimberly and Nathan may not have been with us but I'd like to say I captured a picture of all three of them here!

One... Twooooooooo... Nine! Kali seems to love the number 2, so she holds it as long as she can, and then moves on to 9! We are working on putting it in her vocab but she is so stubborn!! She loved it when Manny and Papa Coldwell were swinging her!

Here is our friend the gorilla up close... he's so cute!!

Kali just LOVED the gorilla. We couldn't hardly get her away from the window. He was chillin out in the corner!

We couldn't get her to hold on till we got to the car. She crashed out in the stroller and then stayed asleep all the way home and then napped for 3 more hours. We wore her out!!

Here Fishy Fishy!!

2008-07-22T20:01:00.000-07:00

We love to fish as a family and decided to introduce Kali to it. I'll take a picture of it later but Mike got Kali a Dora fishing pole with a cute pink weighted fish on the end of it. After casting it once for her she was bored... oh well! We'll try around later. She loved leaning over the railing and feeding the carp at the marina by the pool too. Enjoy!

We didn't want to bother with buying the dog food to throw to the fish and geese so instead I dug out a bag of Doritos! The fish loved it and so did the geese. Kali would pick up a handful and eat a piece and throw and piece.... eat a piece and throw a piece! It was funny!

We couldn't get her away from the railing... she was obsessed!!

Kaelyn was the only one to catch a fish that night. She was so proud! Can you see it?? It was a tiny blue gill.... about 4 inches long!!

Kali lunged at the fish and then pulled back and screamed YUCKY! after making contact with it. Don't think she'll try to touch any fish anymore!

It looks like we did night fishing but really it was only starting to be twilight. We had a good time... and so did the bugs that chewed on us!

Miner Mike's Arcade

2008-07-22T19:51:00.000-07:00

Friday night at Tan-Terr-A we went to Miner Mike's, an arcade/carnival style place. It really was a lot of fun. They had a train roller coaster that just went in a circle but seemed fun. There were bumper cars and games for everyone... even the little ones!!

Mike was unsuccessful catching any real fish this week but he made up for it on the game at Miner Mike's. This game was pretty cool... he wants one for home!

Kali has learned that candy is good anytime!! Kimberly and Nathan found a claw game that always pays out in candy. Nathan put his cup up on the table where you can see that Kali found it! I did give her a piece after taking the picture... I'm not THAT mean!

Sometimes I think that Uncle Ray forgets his age... he's just a big kid!! Here is Ray and Kimberly on the mini-train roller coaster. They said that even though it was very small and a short track that is was a lot of fun. I guess that's all that matters right?

There was a cow milking game... unfortunately it was out of order so I can't give any details. Nathan and Mike ran away with the camera and this is what they came back with. Boys will be boys I suppose!! :-)

Kali loves to ride in cars.... unless it has a car seat and she can't move from it for 2+ hours! Anyhow, here she and Joseph are riding in a Fozzy Bear car and Miner Mike's. I think I burned up 3 dollars on this car... each ride is 25 cents... 12 rides!! :-)

The Foley's are Fish on VACATION!!

2008-07-22T19:33:00.000-07:00

One of the best parts of Tan-Terr-A is the pool. Look up the website and check out the main pool that looks over the lake. We just couldn't get enough of it. So of course I was out there with my camera trying to get some good angles of Mike's side of the family. We are hoping that the Coldwell side of the fam will join in next year. I can't even imagine the folly's from a trip like that!! :-)

Here is Aunt Tisha going down the slide. All of the adults except Nana Foley were at the pool on Friday and all of them went down the slide... even Papa Foley! Sadly I didn't get a picture of that one, it was pretty entertaining.

Kimberly can't get enough of the pool. We swam for 4 hours straight on Friday and she was still begging for more!!

By the end of the swimming day on Friday Kali actually found her monkey and cried Night Night to me. I didn't get a picture of it but she climbed up on the reclining chair in this picture and sucked her thumb and lay her head down on Monkey. I felt so bad for her that I loaded up and took her to the room for a bath and a nap. She was such a good girl!!

Uncle Ray took Kali down the slide probably 10 or more times. She LOVED it! I took her down once on Friday and then again on Saturday but the Mom is the only one who takes pictures so I didn't make the cut. Oh well!! Kaelyn and Joseph in the "kiddy puddle" as I called it. It wasn't really a pool. There was zero entry and the deepest it went was maybe 6-8 inches and it had little fountains all around. It really was fun and ALL of the kids loved it!

She is such a fish and so fun to photograph! Wait till I get my new camera for our anniversary... they will be EVEN BETTER!!

I love to take action shots of Kimberly and Nathan. Even though they hate to have their pictures taken they will gladly get in and out of the water to get the perfect action pose!

Here's all five little Foley's. I promised them I would only make them pose for one picture! Here it is! Aren't they so cute??

Traveling and Hotel Bloopers!

2008-07-22T10:47:00.000-07:00

Ahhh, it's so good to be home!! With that said we had such a good time! I have more pictures to post later but here are some of the ones that were taken in the hotel and car.

We had the portable DVD player for the long drive down and back. Kali was mostly entertained by that but throw in a little bit of Nathan's goofiness and we were good to go!!

Kimberly has gotten Miss Kali hooked on Doritos. Look at how orange her lips are!! :-) When anyone tried to get a chip from her she screamed NO!! Funny but not really... still cute though!!

Nathan gets sucked into anything that is on TV... even on vacation!! Noticed that he too is enjoying a Dorito!

Kali was ALWAYS the first one up. Nathan was ALWAYS the last one up. Here is Kali trying to coax the Natester out of bed... she was unsuccessful!!

Kali busted free of the hotel room one morning and took off down the hall... it took a little while to coral her into the room! This kid loves to run!!

Sneak peak at our lake trip...

2008-07-20T20:14:00.000-07:00

We went to Tan Ter-A this last weekend and had such a good time. I promised my dad that I'd post this video first since it's super cute! Mike's brother Christopher took Kali down the slide once and as she always says... AGAIN... she went down about 10 more times. Here is a short video to make you smile!!

Have probably have about 30 other pictures to post of all the kids and the rest of the Foley's... I'll spread them out over a few days!!