15 years

Hubby and I recently celebrated our 15th anniversary. Wowzers!

This is the necklace I got for enduring so long! The pearls move so they can be side by side, or seperated like they are now. It is really quite pretty. Perry has pretty good taste in jewelry and I like most everything he picks out.

This is us in the Dominican. Noah took this picture and I think he did pretty good!

~Thanks for stopping by!

Kaylani

We're Home!!

What a fabulous time we had!
I only have a minute and I don't have any pictures uploaded onto the computer yet, but I thought I'd share some memorable moments from each of my children.

Ryan - "There's tonnes of junk in my trunks!"
background - the boys went body surfing lots! (Cam said he wasn't body surfing - just swimming with the waves!) After the first time Ryan had changed his clothes and came out of the bathroom and said "Be careful about the floor - there was tonnes of junk in my trunks!" I was a little nervous until I looked and saw the floor covered in sand and shells etc. I think this phrase was used daily after that because it always made us laugh.

Noah - The beach area had little pools that you could swim in to cool off and such. The day after the boys had swam with the dolphins they were in this pool and Noah said "Watch everyone - I'm going to be a dolphin." He then went under water and jumped up doing a twist and landed on his belly. He continued to do this for a couple of minutes and Cam joined in. It was too funny! Cam was pouring water on the deck of the pool later so that he could do a "Sea Lion Slide"

Cameron - Loved to body surf! The first day while he was figuring it out he'd go under the wave and then jump up and say "I just got pounded!" After the 2nd day it changed to "I didn't get pounded!" Cam had the best rides because of his life jacket (which I am soooo glad we took!). The jacket would keep him afloat and he could ride out the end of the wave when eveyone else was beached. Of course, his definition of a great ride was whether or not he got pounded, not how far he went!

Kai - What do you do to get noticed everywhere you go? Take a curly haired blonde 1 year old who started to say "ola!"! His hair got curlier as we got closer to POP, and straighter as we flew farther away! All the locals stopped to pat his curls and say "Ola!" He'd charm them right off by saying it back - which made them laugh and pat his head again and it was a continuous circle. He did great the whole trip - still have a 3 hour nap in the afternoon which gave us a little down time everyday and was happy as could be.

This is longer than I intended and I really have to go! We got home at 3:30 this morning and I just got up. I need to get a few things done before the boys are moving around.

~Ola!
Kaylani

Yikes!!

We leave the country in 9 hrs. 2.5 of those hours involves being at the airport. I still have to pack for myself, pack the kids play stuff bag, tidy the house, take the garbage out and sleep. Yowzers!! I was doing so good, but then I had to run to my sisters to borrow and play pen and I got sucked into THE MALL. I was just going to run in, but I didn't surface for 4 hrs!! It was fun, though. I got a really cute swim suit for $26. And some lovely body cream from Bath and Body Works. And a top from Lulu. That's about it. Good times!

Tonight I was making Cam try on shorts before I packed his bag and Kai got really into it. He'd go to the drawer, pull out either a shirt or shorts, then lift his arms or legs until I helped him put them on. It really was cute! When the drawer was empty he had on 3 pairs of shorts, his regular long sleeved shirt, 2 muscle shirts, a swim shirt and a button up shirt I got at the Dominican last winter. He looked like he gained ten pounds! I wish I had a picture but the camera was already packed.

Well, have a great New Years and I'll see you in '09!

~Thanks for stopping by!
Kaylani

Who do you cuddle up with to watch a show with?

Kai always heads to Ryan and the blanket. Much, much cozier that way!

~Merry Christmas!

Kaylani

Pictures

This is Noah's team when they got to play at Rexall. Perry took all of the boys and they all got to skate for about an hour. Cam wandered around when Noah was playing his game and was talking to Kevin Lowe and Mathieu Garon. I don't know if Garon's name is spelt right, but he is a goalie for the Oilers and Lowe is the GM. Noah was ripped off Cam got to meet them and he didn't!

Noah got asked to play with the Div 1 team again on Tuesday night. He scored 2 goals!! The hat he has on is the MVP hat that the team gives to someone after every game. He'll take it back for the next game so they can give it out again. He was so excited to get it!

Ever seen a curly mohawk? Bella (Perry's niece) is 4 and tried styling Kai's hair with toothpaste. You gotta use what you got! Jenee cleaned Kai's hair and this is what he ended up with!

~Thanks for stopping by!

Kaylani

HI

So I really don't have anything wonderful to tell you - I'm just procrastinating doing the dishes. Boy its cold here! I'm not to excited about this weather. I hope it doesn't last long! Perry was in Phoenix over the weekend and golfed in shorts. No, no, I'm happy for him, really...not jealous at all!

I'm going shopping tomorrow at THE MALL. Yes, I'm crazy, but totally looking forward to it! Mostly because I'm getting stuff for our trip, and that's exciting! We had to buy some new luggage because we didn't have enough for everyone. Costco had this great bag on sale and so I picked up 5! Who needs that much luggage LOL! They are perfect though for the boys, and they are a bit smaller that what I have, so I needed one, too!

Noah plays on a division 2 hockey team. Yesterday the coach from the div 1 team called him and asked if he would play a game in Lacombe with them. Noah was so excited to be asked. I took Noah and Cam and we watched the game - it was awesome! Noah scored a goal and looked like he fit right in. I was pretty impressed with the team- they gave Noah a round of applause in the change room because he did so good and to say "Thanks for coming!". When we were leaving about 7 or 8 different parents thanked Noah for coming and even thanked me for bringing him. This hockey business is crazy! The parents are so into it and cheer like crazy during the game. O yah - they won 5-2!

Well, I suppose I should go get my dishes done because Perry's brother and his family get here tomorrow night. Yikes! Is it Christmas already??

~Thanks for stopping by!
Kaylani

Guess what I'm doing tomorrow

Cooking. Not Christmas baking or yummy cookies, but cooking. I went to put something in one of our freezers and was greeted with the "Oh, somethings not frozen" smell. I have completely thawed burgers, roasts and a partially thawed turkey. I was going to clean the freezer out sometime soon, but the time seems to be tomorrow! On the plus side, I can make a bunch of freezer meals with it and put them in our new freezer and use them when we have company next week. It'll all work out. I think maybe the old freezer was getting tired of being called the "old freezer" instead of our first, or original, or smaller freezer.

~Thanks for stopping by!
Kaylani

OMGosh!!!

I did it!! I really did it!
I just booked 6 flights to the Dominican for New Years! Whoo Hoo! This is too crazy - I've never travelled with one child let alone 4. I may need a holiday to recooperate from this vacation!

What do you put in a Christmas basket?

This is what 25 Christmas baskets looks like in the back of my van. This was the second load so WHOO HOO!!!! I'm done!

Yesterday I was trying to get them finished and Noah constantly interrupted with questions and comments and I was getting very frustrated - he finally asked - "What is more important, me or the baskets?" I said the baskets were paying for his really expensive Christmas present, and he said "Carry on!"

The tags, mints and chocolate bar that went inside. I don't know why the picture is sideways - just tilt your head a little to the right.

Chocolates. Yum. I do have to say after making 50 of these I'm really not excited about eating any. All the better because I started here last week and am going to do it!!

update

Just a quick update on Cam, because I know you care! Not once has he wet the bed. It makes me wonder what else he could do that I'm just holding him back from. He has it in his head he wants to snowboard this year...