Monkey Girl

Cami continues to be a bundle of energy and adventure. I took these pictures so you can see how she loves to get on top of tables. Aaron actually caught her one day swinging from this chandelier. She also has learned to open doors already and yesterday began taking her clothes off by herself. She always knows how to keep her mama hopping, I love her like crazy but I'm already wondering what the future has in store for me with this child!

Final Note for Kentucky

We really did have a fantastic time in Kentucky, visiting with old friends, driving around checking out the area, enjoying the warmth and friendliness of Bowling Green, dreaming about maybe relocating there some day, but to make the trip complete we decided to check out the hospital. Yes, the day before we were to fly home, Zach threw up all day, late that night I became concerned about him and called the Kaiser nurse on call who advised us to take him to the emergency room. At the emergency room they decided to admit him to the hospital for severe dehydration. They ultimately diagnosed him with strep throat and put him on antibiotics. He ended up being in the hospital a day and a half due to the level of his dehydration and we had to reschedule our flight. I would recommend Southwest Airlines to anyone as they ended up being very gracious about rescheduling the flight for no charge. We delayed the flight one day and basically ended up taking Zach from the hospital to the airport. We were very happy when we arrived home safe and sound. The antibiotics really worked well and the next day he was a new man again.

California Kentuckians

Cami with Sadie (Quinn and Colene's youngest child)
All the kids that have been transplanted from California
Mike and Anne were expecting a new one soon.
Cami loving on her daddy.
We stayed with Cody and Laura while we were in Kentucky. They have a big house and we had a very comfortable area to stay in, three bedrooms and two bathrooms all to ourselves! They were extremely generous in allowing us to use their car while we were there. They were very hospitable and we really had a great time. Here is a picture of all our friends that have moved to Kentucky, we all got together for dinner one night.

Beautiful Homes

Kentucky is full of absolutely beautiful homes. Most of these pictured are really old homes, there are also tons of newer, beautiful homes like the brick one you see here.

Christmas in Bowling Green Town Square

We arrived in Kentucky just in time for the Bowling Green Town Square Christmas celebration. There were free horse drawn carriage rides, hot cocoa and cookies. We also posed for a picture with Santa. We brought lots of warm clothes and this was the only time we got to wear them as it warmed up the rest of the week. We were actually hoping for the cold weather.

Flight to Kentucky

The day after we went to Sea World, we flew to Kentucky to visit some friends. As luck would have it we happened to be so fortunate to fly on the Shamu plane. Southwest Airlines has one plane painted like Shamu and we just happened to get it for our flight. The timing was perfect since we had seen a picture of it at Sea World but didn't think we would get to fly on it. Our friends have flown back and forth from Ontario to Kentucky many times and have never once flown on the Shamu plane! The kids did fantastic on the flight, they really loved it. The flight wasn't full so Cami even got her own seat, although we didn't pay for a ticket for her. It was a great memory for the kids as this was their first flight that they will remember (Zach flew a few times as a baby but Maddie has never flown.)

Sea World Field Trip

Zach went on his first field trip December 5th. Aaron was off track in December so we were fortunate to be able to take the whole family to Sea World. This was in connection with the school Zach attends 2 days a week. We went on a 1/2 day school rate so it was inexpensive and very enjoyable. If you ever want to go to Sea World, try a Wednesday in December, it was pretty empty and that made it a lot more fun.

Local Christmas Parade

One of the things we enjoy about living in a smaller area is that we can show up to the Christmas parade about 10 minutes before it starts and still get a great seat. We usually try to make the Christmas Parade each year, the kids enjoy it and it's just some small city fun. Who knows, maybe in a few years one of our kids will be marching in it.