Our Hectic Week

It has been a crazy and hectic week. We are sure glad that it is almost over so we can get everything back to normal. First as most of you may know Cody was in Nebraska for the majority of this week for his Great Grandma's funeral. He was very fortunate to be able to get the time off to go and spend some much needed time with his family. Kaiya and Jessica are sure happy to have him back in town though. Kaiya has not been feeling well for the past week and we finally got in to see the Dr. and at no surprise she is going to be just like mommy. She has a double ear infection and strep throat, good thing we have an amazing dr who didnt want to wait for the group B strep test to come back (since she has the strep rash all over her body) to give her antibiotics. We have taken her 2x to the Langley ER and they have said each time that it is a virus that will pass in time... well were they ever so wrong. So about 6 different prescriptions later Kaiya and mommy were off to the airport to pick up daddy. Just when things were supposed to calm down we ran into a HUGE accident that had one of our main streets shut completely down, not only were we about 30 mins late from picking him up but we had to take back roads and go through parking lots in order to get past the accident. We finally made it to pick him up and Kaiya was so excited to see her dadda, even though she was sick and had no voice, her eyes lit up and she made her surprise face. That was the best ending to our crazy day.
Hopefully next week will go a lot smoother, Cody will be in the "field" for training but will hopefully be able to come home at night, we will see. You never know with the Army.

Have a wonderful weekend!

The Joy of the Holidays

As each holiday passes we are more thankful then ever to be together as a family. Last year we missed 60% of the holidays together due to Cody's training. Even though we miss our Huge families out west, we are happy to be starting our own traditions and making memories with just us here on the east coast.

Last night Kaiya and I decorated our new Christmas tree, by decorate I mean I would put the ornaments up and she would take them off and throw them (thank goodness for shatter proof ornaments). Once we got everything in place she looked at it as I turned the lights on she said "OOOO Pretty Momma". I knew that for a split second we had made a memory together that I would remember always and that she would remember for about 30 seconds. We still arent completely done with the tree, we still need to buy a new skirt and a star for it.

We cannot wait to  see how she reacts this year to Christmas. We decided a few weeks ago that Kaiya is going to have 2 different Christmas's. One would be all of the things her grandparents have given her (which is a lot) and another would be Santa and our gifts to her. She is going to be super excited and spoiled rotten this year, to only have her birthday follow about 2 weeks later.

We hope that all of our wonderful family and friends have an amazing holiday season.