Are We Boring of What?

Not much happening here lately...

Kaleb loves playing with his buddy J, they are always excited to see each other, they love getting into things (literally), and they play side by side great!





Kaleb loves to imitate Kevin and when he can get his hands on a tool he heads to a spot where Kevin has fixed something and tries to do the same!


I know this is a horrible picture but this is the face that Kaleb makes lately, he sticks out his lips like a duck. He does this when he is mad, making silly noises or just thinking. I am still trying to figure out what he is doing!



Last Friday I was heading out to a Chiropractic appointment and run some errands. We were all ready to go except I couldn't find my keys. Kaleb apparently had gotten a hold of them and put them in a "special" place. Usually I know where he puts them and can locate them after a few minutes. This time I looked and looked and then had to cancel my appointment and looked and looked some more. I had given up when I spotted something different. We had just bought a new pack of toilet paper and it was sitting in the hallway. To my surprise Kaleb had stuffed my keys in the package right in the center of a roll. It is never dull with a 17 month old around.

"Tric a treet"

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. I was all stressed about the costume I made for Kaleb and getting things ready for the Primary activity. But then the day came and it was a lot of fun! Kaleb did NOT like being put in his costume and as a result he pulled some of the feathers off. And then for the first little while he had that "I am so mad at you right now" look on his face. But I tell you once he figured out that trick or treating meant you got something, he was all for it. I don't even think he knew it was candy they were giving him, but whatever it was it fit perfectly in his hand!




That night we went with some friends around their neighborhood. Kaleb got to eat some candy and then he started actually saying the words. "Tric a treet" And he even said thank-you a few times.

Uh-oh

Uh-oh it seems that we are teaching this kid to like treats! He had an Oreo and was in heaven, I however was not to happy since he was in the car with a white shirt on. And the ice cream cone was his first! He didn't understand how to eat the ice cream but loved the cone, thanks grandpa!

Summer Lov'n

Kaleb is at such a fun age! He loves to be outside, play in water and get dirty. What better way to let him do all three than to go to the beach. We spent several days at the beach and we even got to camp there one night. I don't have pictures of the camping but we won't forget it because in the middle of the night a cat tried to get in the tent and freaked me out. I screamed, woke up Kaleb and then we both had a hard time getting back to sleep!






As you can see Kaleb played in the sand with his cousins, Kevin body-boarded and even let the kids bury him. And I relaxed and took pictures of course! And now that we are back home to the cold weather I am especially fond of these pictures, if only the sun were that warm here. Until next summer!

The Par-tay!

One of the reasons that we went to California for this last break from school was to celebrate my parents 40th wedding anniversary.



All my siblings and their families were there to have fun all together. Now that my parents have four children that live in four different states it makes it hard to be together often. So we planned a long weekend that included fun with just the family. To top it off we had a small dinner party to celebrate their wedding. We had yummy food, saw my aunts, uncles and some cousins, looked through their wedding album (i wish i had taken the time to scan them), and the grand-kids put on a talent show.


Dad with Uncle Frank


Mom and Aunt Donna

And here is what I got of the talent show, all the kids (or those that were not being shy) sang Families Can Be Together Forever


Zach did some wicked dancing!

Anna and Izzy sang Taylor Swift

Oh and I wish I had a picture of Andrew singing Iron Man!

It was a great party!

The Happy Couple

Here's to 40 years of marriage!
(Aren't they just so cute?)

Thanks Mom and Dad for being great examples, having a wonderful marriage, being awesome parents and for just being who you are! Happy Anniversary!

Domestic Skills

So when my friend Valerie decided to buy a box of pears and learn how to can them I decided to give it a try too! So we recruited Whitney and went to work. It was not as hard as I thought it would be but it was work. We were up way too late but it was fun to visit with friends while learning. Oh and Kaleb just loved eating the pears.


The pealing seemed like it never ended!


Filling the jars, these are pears not fingers.



Getting closer.


By the time we were done it had been over 4 hours, we were a tired bunch. But the finished product looked so pretty. Thanks for all your help Whitney!


Round two of canning went much faster and Nicole (and Steve) joined us!


One happy kid and his pear!

Star Fish

Kaleb and I took swim lessons this summer. He was suppose to be in the Angel Fish class but since no one else signed up he was moved into the Star Fish. This class had up to three year old's in it. Kaleb loved to watch the other older kids. I loved being outside and in the pool too but after two weeks straight we were done.

Kaleb loves the water and eventually learned how to be content in the water for 30 minutes. Before all he wanted to do was go in and out. The classes included a lot of singing and playing in the water. His favorite was playing Humpty Dumpty by sitting on the wall and then falling back in. They also got to go down the water slide several days but Kaleb got progressively more and more afraid. The third time he cried after I caught him, so the last time the class went down we opted to just watch.