School starts tomorrow, I am pretty excited.  We've had a few bumps in the mother/ daughter road for the past couple weeks.  Kali loves school and is looking forward to her new teacher and making new friends, it'll be awesome to have some structure in our lives again.

I spoke in church last week, it went well.  I'm surprised at how comfortable I am up there.  I love telling personal experiences and I think people love to hear them.  My bishop told me "That was exactly what I wanted to hear from you."  I love that guy. 

We have an addition to our family.  A cute little tabby kitten named Caramel, it matches Kali favorite stuffy.  She sure loves this kitten, and I am surprised at how much we all do, he's such a cute little thing and loves to sleep with us when he can sneak in.  Kali mauls him practically to death, I think it's cause she loves him so much.  I think he fills in some kind of void we had in our family, we're all so excited to see him and play with him.   I can't believe I have a cat though, last summer I caught like 5 in 3 days and took them to the SPCA for pooping in my garden.

Spencer's baby sis got married on Friday, so happy for her and her husband, he is a great guy and if Kali were older there may have been some competition there.  It was a beautiful day, lots of fun pictures, good food and too much candy.  With almost 20 grand kids running around hyper on pure sugar, it was chaotic.

Here's a pic with the happy couple surrounded by most of their nieces and nephews.

Spence and I kissing at the temple.

My dear friend Eliza and her little man Karsten.

The "Cool Table". (I love my cousins!!)

Our family picture by a corn field near Taber.

Bikes and Cakes

She finally did it.  It took a lot of patience, tears, and scrapes.  My Kali can ride a two wheeler.  She is pretty excited and learned over two days.  Last Saturday, we took her to the local toboggan hill with 3 different bikes, a coaster, a small bike with 12 inch tires, and a bigger one featured below.  We had her coast down the hill using her legs as skis, but keeping her weight on her seat.  She did good on the coaster, but the bikes with the pedals caused some serious adversity.  After 3 hours and bribes galore we had to give up short of her riding on her own.  Then on Monday we took her to a park really close to our house with a really small hill, she was happy and picked it up really fast and rode a while on the grass by herself.  Then later that afternoon Spence had her riding in the back alley, she still has to master the steering but it will come in time.  We are so excited that she can ride a two wheeler, it opens the door to so many adventures for our family.


I've been wanting to do this for a while, I finally covered my pine, scratched, stained, kitchen table with countertop laminate.  It looks awesome.  I love how sturdy it is.  I love how I did it all by myself.  I remind Spencer often how awesome I am and how great the table looks, he's so good at agreeing enthusiastically.  I'll kill two birds with one stone here, the picture below is of Kali, our friend Jen and I destroying the leftovers of a Safeway cake, which was so liberating.  It also shows the table and in the background you can see how my kitchen has no wall behind me, the one that Spencer took out a few weeks ago.

Our kitchen is on hold till we get our electrical permit, I hope we can get it soon, it's Spencer's department.