It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

The day after Thanksgiving we went straight into Christmas mode. Elvis Presley Christmas music and all. 

 As you can tell I am kind of obsessed with deer decor

 my new white tree that I got as an early birthday gift from my parents

 Kali loves Nutcrackers 

 I put these white paper snowmen up on the wall and each of the kids had one to decorate, they had fun doing it and it was cute seeing them work on them together

 Kali's is a traditional snowman, Kai's is Larry Fitzgerald and Kora's is a hodge podge of every craft item she could find.

Thanksgiving

I spent the day before Thanksgiving making rolls. Kora decided to poke them a bunch of times. 

 We woke up Thanksgiving morning and headed over to Moon Valley park for the Turkey Bowl

 Kai had a good time playing flag football (of course there was a pain in the rear kid in his group that could not stop touching him but there is always one of those)

 Francis and Jared talking about soccer

 Kai in action

 Kali had fun hanging out with Ruby and Kora loved Ruby's dog

 the girls played on the playground

 The whole group

 Then we headed over to Grandma Kathi's for brunch 

It was baby Caige's first Thanksgiving

 Francis and Mel

 Cousins

 time to eat

Then we came home and Kali and I went for a bike ride. Kora took a nap and the boys watched football. We had dinner at my parents. My Uncle Roy and his girlfriend Sandra came. It was a nice evening but I forgot to take photos. 

Kinder Kicks

Kora had her first soccer practice. She was very excited.

 Kai stayed with her since she would not let him go.

 she got there early to practice

 her friend Yamilet was in her group and she was happy to see her

 Coach Michael started practice and then he walked over to Kora to show her something & BAM! Kora started crying, ran over to me and did not go back until the last 2 minutes. Good times. She did say she wants to go back next week so we'll see.

Ballet is hideous

This is Kora right before we left for ballet last week. She was SO excited to go and dance & see Miss Suzy

 Then when we got there she did not want to go in. So I went with her, she gave Miss Suzy a hug and told me she wanted to leave and never take ballet again. She said she wants to play soccer. (she's been asking this for about a month now)

So, we left 2 minutes into ballet & went to get her some cleats & shin guards. Tonight she starts soccer with Kai's club doing Kinder Kicks and Daddy signed on to be one of the coaches (because really Francis does not have enough to do, ha!) She is SO excited! Francis was soooo happy when I sent him this picture and told him and she quit ballet. She told us at dinner, "ballet is hideous". ha!

Team Chadeen

This year Kali went down to do the Team Chadeen run/walk with my parents & Uncle Bret. She got to meet Big Red

 and the Gorilla

 After, they went to eat at Golden Corral for a mini family reunion. I was home with Kora since she was sick & later that day Kai had two soccer games. He scored 3 goals. 

Fall Festival 2015

The kid's school had a Fall Festival and Kora thought it was SO much fun because this year she got to go on all of the bouncy houses and slides. Kali and Kai were so good about helping her do all of the booths. The theme was Football Frenzy so they wore team shirts that they like. 

ER

The week after Halloween I started to not feel very well. I passed a kidney stone and still feel awful. So I thought I had another, and drank tons of water, lemon and apple cider vinegar to try to get rid of it.

 After 5 days of extreme pain and not being able to get off of the couch I got a little scared

 6 days into feeling this awful and I my Dad took me to the ER. I found out that I have a kidney infection and gall stones. I am on antibiotics now and feeling much better.

 My Dad and I spend Veteran's Day evening at the ER. 

I am am on the mend and just moving very very slowly.