We Love our Animals

Over the last few months, we have really enjoyed watching all of our animals and their crazy behaviors. Here are a bunch of fun photos:

Ikea now has pet furniture. The cats love it!

Rebel loves looking out my office window. Lots of rain on this day!

Lucy likes looking out the window too.

This is a popular chair in my office!

 

 

Unfortunately, our poor Rosey girl was diagnosed with cancer. Shortly after we moved into our new house, we noticed that her cheek and eye were swollen. The vet removed a rotten tooth, and we hoped that was the problem. We ended up seeing a dental specialist, who did a biopsy, and found out that it is cancer. We are going to spoil her for the rest of the time we have with her. 

Grand Canyon

Over winter break we decided to take a trip to the Grand Canyon. It's been on our bucket list for a while, and we wanted to do something small while the kids were on break. We headed out to Arizona on Saturday. With all of the rain over Christmas, there was a lot of snow in the mountains. We had a really nice, scenic view on the ride.

We stopped to buy chains for the car because there was supposed to be snow on Monday, when we would be driving home. We didn't want to get stuck. Out here, they won't let you drive without chains when it snows. The kids made a few snowballs out of what was left on the side of the parking lot.

Getting into Arizona...

We heard about this amazing hotel outside of the Grand Canyon, in Williams, AZ. When we arrived, there was a ton of snow. This was the first time the kids have seen actual snow. We've been to Big Bear once, but there was no real snow; just slush. It was super cold!

The next morning, we took the train from Williams to the Grand Canyon. It was 2 degrees when we woke up! It was about a 2-hour ride on the train. We got first class train tickets so we would have a nice big window view along the way.

We had some time to explore the Grand Canyon. Definitely not enough time! We want to come back.

We saw elk and deer.

We took the train back to Williams, and had dinner at the hotel.

The next morning, we had breakfast before we headed out. We wanted to get on the road because of the storm that was supposed to be coming. Luckily, we didn't end up getting the snow they were calling for.

Merry Christmas

Today was a rainy Christmas in San Diego. The kids were up bright and early. Nowadays Zach gets up early, and Kailani wants to sleep in.

The kids got a lot less this year, but they got big items. Kailani's favorites are: ipad, apple watch, and airpods. Zach's favorites are: Nintendo Switch Lite, Samsung watch, Samsung buds.
We had dinner at our annual Christmas dinner spot, Fuji. Looking back, it seems like perhaps we started this tradition in 2013. I can't get Kailani in the photo anymore.

Holiday Celebrations

Along with the holiday comes all of the celebrations and fun activities.

We did some baking.

I was able to go to Zach's Color of Winter performance at school.

Our community (Escaya) had a Grinch party.

Kailani had a Christmas party with Riot and Ferocious. 

We hosted a Girl Scout party. We are down to 5 girls this year.

Zach had a holiday potluck with Pride. I guess I didn't get any photos:(