Happy Valentine's Day

Kali got this fun monkey balloon for Valentine's day, I got those pretty flowers from my sweet heart and a romantic night out and Kali and I delivered those Valentine plates to all of our neighbors! It was a wonderful Valentine's Day!!!! I hope you all enjoyed your day of LOVE!

Do these have pockets?

This question is asked daily by Kali. She always wants to wear outfits that have pockets. She is just tooooo CUTE!

A TRIBUTE TO OUR PROPHET

I have been wanting to write something ever since I heard the news that our prophet had passed away. It was Sunday afternoon when all of a sudden my phone was flooded with text messages about how our beloved prophet had left this world to be with his wife. Oh what a glorious reunion that was, I am sure. When I first read the text it came as a shock to me and I just sat there. My very first thought was this is so sad and I wanted to just sit and cry, my second thought was how happy for him to get to finally be with his wife, and that thought did make me cry.
He is such an amazing man and has done so much for our church while he was prophet, I felt like I knew him and quickly thought back through my life if I have ever actually met him, I felt like I had. After much reflection I realized I had never actually met him in person, but I had attended two different firesides that he had spoken at, and I will never forget the one in Utah at the Marriott Center when he walked into the room and everyone stood up and sang, "We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet, " I am sure there was not a dry eye in the whole place, the spirit was so strong and if I hadn't had a strong enough testimony before, I knew with out a doubt at that moment in my life that Gordon B. Hinckley was a prophet in these latter days and he did speak with God and knew what we needed to hear for this day in time.
I turned on the news trying to find out more information. Sadly enough, nothing was being said. So, I immediately got on lds.org to see what they had to say. I tried calling Aaron to see if he had heard the news, then called my sister Janica to see if she had heard. I guess I almost felt like I needed confirmation that this was true and not some misunderstanding.
Monday Aaron spent some time reading aloud to me every article that was written about him on CNN and the New York Tribune and on lds.org, etc. Anything he could find. For FHE we talked about him and all his service he has done while prophet. It has been good to take time to talk about and reflect on the life of our prophet and the great man that he was and is. He was definitely a devoted servant of our Heavenly Father. What a great example. What an amazing man.

GYMNASTICS!

Today was Kali's first day of gymnastics and she did such an awesome job!!! I am not sure who was more excited Kali or me. I competed in gymnastics when I was a little girl and so I was excited to get Kali started. She got to swing on the bars and do somersaults and jump on the trampoline and jump off of the spring board. She is a natural.

My little Angel

I hear Kali talking away in my room while I was cooking, guessing she was either pretending to play on our computer, talk on the phone or one of her favorite things and my favorite things that she does is read mommies scriptures. I have been meaning to do this for awhile but today Kali and I finally took a walk to the temple and went to the distribution center and got her, her own set of scriptures so that she can now read along with us while we do our family scripture study.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

We spent our holiday at Kawela Bay with a bunch of friends. Kali had fun playing in the sand and out on Uncle Jame's kayak. Always a good time at Kawela's.

POTTY TRAINED!

This past week we have been working hard at getting Kali potty trained, and I must say she has passed with flying colors. She is doing so well! We gave her stars for each time and then after she got a row of stars she would receive a surprise. She got her pony bag, a Dora bat and ball and a calculator! Daddy even took her out and played ball with her after she received it. She was so excited to finally get to try out her new bat and ball.