Sounds a little fishy to me!!

Kalee is so Adorable! She did a terrific job in her musical. She did all the actions and her singing was like a movie star! lol! You could hear her over all the other kidsd. She was great!! I am so glad she is not tone deaf like her mommy. She is one cute beach girl!

Kalee's 1st grade Class

Clark watching Kalee he loved seeing his sister...and looking at all the fish.

Joel Drew this and I cut it out and we both colored it with chalk. We used tissue paper for the water effect on the blow hole. He did a fantastic Job don't ya think.

ROLLER COASTERS!!!!!

Who loves roller coasters? I love them and my favorite one, by far the x or the batman ride at Six Flags. The reason I ask this is because that is exactly what my emotions have been doing for the last month, and I thought I would blog about it. Many of you already know that Kalee was put in the hospital because we were told she had Kawasaki disease. It’s a rare disease that is curable. If you want more info on it then please look it up, it’s an interesting disease. It all started with Kalee getting Fevers of 102.9 and them not going away. She had a fever for 5 days straight. She also had Mono at the same time. She was such a trooper. She had blood drawn 5-6 times and a IV, x-rays, chest ultrasound. She hated the hospital. Grandma Bragg flew out and took care of the kids, she was an absolute life savor. My friend Julie also helped out. She was wonderful and I will always be thankful. My mom also came out to help after Kalee was out of the hospital. Of course Joel was gone while this was happening. I went and talked to his Commander and we were lucky that they had a rotator coming home from the desert. They decided to send Joel home on it, so he got to come home 3 weeks early. Starting with my miscarriage and then Kalee getting sick and Joel coming home my emotions were sad, worried, relieved, and happy. I never ever want anything like that to happen to one of my kids again. There are no feelings to describe the grief that comes with dealing with one of your kids being that sick. My heart goes out to all the parents that have sick children that have to stay in the hospital for days at a time and that are going through much worse than what we had to go through. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. We are very blessed and I am so thankful for everyone’s prayers on our behalf. The good news is we get to go on some real roller coasters...we are going to Disneyland in May!

Super boy turns 2!!!!!

I can’t believe he’s 2 already. He had a wonderful day filled with presents, pizza and cake that he didn’t even eat, and going down to great Grandma Bragg’s house. Although he didn't feel to great he was in a good mood all day! he played with Cousin Justin and cousin Kyle who gave him fun car rides in his new car. he played with the other cousin aswell and had lots of fun. Thanks Grandma for letting us come down, and for eveyone who came to celebrate and for the presents. We missed having the Grandma's and Grandpa's Aunts and Uncles and Cousins from Utah, however he is enjoying all the gifts they sent him. I thought I took more pictures but I guess not however I did take a lot more video that is will being coming soon!

Challenges

A week of challenges,that is the best way to put it. Since last Saturday I have had really sick kids Clark is the last to get it and is still sick I think every outfit I put on has snot on it within seconds. I think most people new I was pregnant, well I had a miscarriage I was about 9 weeks. I started spotting and went to the ER on Wednesday was there from 4:30-10:00( I do not like the ER) they did a bunch of stuff in the End to be told there was no more baby. It was very hard to hear I think I already new. I had so many plans already. Last Tuesday I new something was happening so I prayed that I would have peace in whatever what suppose to happen from the next day on I have felt peace. I know that my Heavenly Father loves me and is aware of me, I know this was nature taking care of my body getting rid of something that wasn’t right. I know that another being is suppose to be in our family so when the time is right it will come. The Hardest part was not having my husband around to comfort me or me to comfort him. I am at peace and although I am sad I have to be grateful that I have 3 wonderful kids that were the best pregnancies ever. The week Ended on a Happy note our little boy turned 2.

Stinson Beach

A couple of Saturday’s ago Joel had a great Idea to take the girls to Stinson beach and have a picnic. The drive there is beautiful, however it has the windiest road that goes on and on and on for about 20 minutes. It really makes you dizzy. The day could not have been better, it was gorgeous weather, blue skies, no wind and was 65 degrees. The picnic area was great. We ate lunch then headed out to the beach. The girls had so much fun. They immediately ran toward the waves, Clark however, was a fready cat and every time the waves got to close he would run away really fast. A couple of times he was trying to run to fast he biffed it and ate the sand it, was really funny. We stayed for almost 3 hours just playing and all the kids had a wonderful time.

Clark found a pool of water on the beach and decided to take a dive. Good thing we were just about to leave. He was so heavy with all those wet clothes on, so we stripped him to his diaper and I took off running to the car.

Daddy made the girls into Mermaids and they loved it. Lily said" I am a Mermaid finally" then she broke free and stood up and said " and now I am human again."

KALEE'S BIRTHDAY

I finally got these pictures from Joel’s camera at Kalee’s birthday party back in October. It took forever to get them on the blog but I thought I would post them anyway since they are so cute. Kalee had a Hannah Montana party with her friend from school and the ward they had a great time.

When Joel went to go get the cake he was on the way out of the store and he tripped. There is a thumb print on the bottom, right smack in the middle.

A Very Merry Christmas

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know how our holiday went. Christmas eve was wonderful. We spent the whole day together as a family, well almost. I had a few last minute gifts to pick up that morning, ya ya I know I waited till the last minute, but you all know my motto...dont do today what you can put off till tommorrow J/K. In this case there was no tommorrow. After I got home we ordered in some pizza and sat down played some games with the kids. After Clark went down for a nap we all made gingerbread houses. I think me and Kalee's is the best, but Joel disagrees, he thinks his is far more structuraly sound. I just told him that is not something engineers really consider in gingerbread land and its all about the display. Later that night we had dinner, ice cream and watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Before the kids went to bed we let them open their traditional Christmas eve present. I dont think they have caught on yet that they get the same thing every year, pajamas. We wrote a note to Santa and left him some brownies and some carrotts for the reindeer. Joel told Kalee that Santa prefers brownies. You could tell the kids were pretty excited and it took them a while to get to sleep. Joel realized he did not wait long enough when Lily wondered in while he was watching TV and eating Santa's brownies. Joel just told her he was hungry and together they put some more on the plate and put it back by the fireplace. It was very cute.

Christmas morning was pretty much what you would expect. The kids were up an at em' at 0600 so we got a pretty early start on the day. We opened up stockings and presents and I made Joel his tradiotional waffle breakfast. Later that day we had Grandma and cousins over for our ham dinner. It was fun, but a lot of work. Don't you miss the days when Christmas was relaxing and all you had to worry about was what toys to play with in which order. We did webcam with Joel's family and the kids got to show off their toys. Kalee and Lily love their Geselle wedding dressups, karoake machine, Hannah Montana guitar, Easy Bake oven, and a whole lot more. Clark loves to destroy his train set and likes all his trucks and planes. We are considering Joel's lapotop he got for his deployments his Christmas gift and Joel gave me the sweetest gifts this Christmas when he did the 12 days of Christmas to me.

This morning we decided to get up early to get a new Christmas tree. We hit the stores early and found some good deals. I got my tree and Joel stocked up on a couple thousand more lights, and some lawn light up decorations. He is out of control. He told me he was going to buy more, but he is running out of outlets, so we should move to a house that has more. We are now just going to try and take it easy for a few days to recoup from the nonstop action lately.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and have a happy new year!!!!

Oh, and the story with the video at the bottom is that when Joel's family came out and visited us recently, Joel showed them all his plane. Terry having the Bragg family...problem, had to use the restroom and couldn't make it to the building, so Joel opened up the bathroom on the plane. We thought it would be nice to get her something to commemorate the event.

Its the most wonderful time of the year!

You know, it just comes quicker every year that goes by. It seems like just a year ago Joel and I were celebrating our first christmas together, and now we have a bunch of kids. As you can tell Joel has a bit of a problem. If there were a christmas lights anonymous group, I would sign Joel up. We all love this time of year, even though we miss the snow and ambience it creates. Quite a bit has gone on since I last posted. Joel's parents and Lindsay came and visited us. It was tons of fun and the kids loved having thier grandparents and auntie come and play. Joel's best friend Grant also came and stayed with us for a few days. Those two are a bunch of goofs. We celebrated Thanksgiving at Grandma's house here in California, we all had a good time and overindulged ourselves as customary. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to go to the midnight showing of Twilight with a bunch of friends. I didn't get home until 3 that morning...but hey, you have to make sacrfices for these vitally important events. The movie was good, but I think they could have made it better. Joel likes to make fun of me for it.

Here is a couple of pictures of us decorating our tree. After 8 years of dedicated service, I am proud to say that this will be the last year for this tree. Its been a wonderful tree and withstood many a batterings by overexcited children.

I forget to say that on the 11 of November I got to go up in a KC-10! The did a spouse flight and it was pretty cool...atleast when I was able to get in the cockpit and the sit in the back of the airplane and watch them refuel. I am amazed at what Joel does. I have no idea how he keeps all those buttons straight.

I found this in our camera...thought you might enjoy!