Kala's Favorite Toy - Fish on a Fishing Pole

In case you haven't noticed we get a real kick out of Kala. She LOVES this toy we have now had like 10 of them, cause they keep breaking. It's a little fish on an elastic string. She goes flying into the air doing flips etc. to get the little thing. She begs us to play all the time. She comes bringing it to us with the fish in her mouth and the fishing pole dragging close behind her. Here is a little sampling of her air tricks. As you can tell Nick and I laugh the whole time we are playing with her.

Kala - Soda & Playing Ball

Kala loves boxes and bags and these little sparkley balls that we got her. She chases them all over the house and carries them around in her mouth. On this day we were getting rid of some soda boxes and she started playing in them. It was sooo entertaining, Nick & I were laughing the whole time. At the end she has a little misjudgement and goes toppling down the stairs.

Kala - Doing Laundry

Kala likes to help do laundry too. She burrows down inside a batch of fresh warm laundry, it's the perfect nap spot.

Kala - Sleeping on the job

During the work day, Kala is always nearby me. On this day she found a spot above my monitor in my desk. Curled up with the books.

A weekend of painting

Weekend Project - Painting the Living Room & Kitchen

View of the Living Room

View of the Kitchen
Painted a darker brown
(Pinecone Hills)

Mom's Birthday

Visiting Blair's in Roberts, ID
Up visiting family at my parents for my Mom's birthday in February.




Mom with Jerelyn

Cathy & Trevor

Scott with Blair

Snowed in with Taralee & Leah

A crazy blizzard came through and Taralee & Leah had been visiting. That night hundreds of commutors were snowed in on the freeway. There were 250 cars staying overnight at a closeby Maverick - I can't imagine the lines for the bathroom there. It was pretty crazy and we were so lucky that Bruce, Taralee's husband had got the heads up from a co-worker on the storm.

Kala - Naptime

I have to say Kala is quite the charmer when she is quietly asleep :D Very Cute!

Sledding with Kimballs

This past winter we had a fun weekend with the Kimballs. The kids brought their sleds and Nick broke out his snowboard. By the time they were done they practically had an olympic loge with a jump and all. The kids and Nick and Chris were outside for hours and had a blast.

Kate in the meantime got into everything and had a good time keeping mom busy. Including trying to eat Kala's food - lol. She is quite a cutie but all the same a mischievous little girl.

Dinosaur Museum Trip

A Day with the Dinosaurs.

On a recent trip with Cathy and the kids, we made a trip to the Dinosaur Museum. The girls had a good time in the play zone with water, sand, trees, and dinosaurs making their own islands etc.

We saw huge dinosaur, fish, sharks, and mamoth skeletons. Also, we watched a 3D Movie with all kinds of water dinosaurs. The girls were a little scared of the mean ones, but liked the little fish swimming close to them. Cathy told Bethany that if she got scared to take off the glasses, so Bethany decided that the glasses were scary and at first wouln't put them on. It took a lot of coaching, but she finally put them on.

We also built our own dinosaur, with different heads, tails, legs, arms, etc. The girls had a great time with this one.