CALO Christmas

CALO had their Christmas party last weekend. It was a yummy dinner, followed by fun games, fondue galore, friends and great memories!

No kids.

Fabulous friends.

Good food.

Awesome night!

Below is the extended leadership team.

They make CALO thrive!!

AMAZING PEOPLE

♥♥♥

Here are all the therapists!!

I think they might need a little therapy of their own...

see what I mean

Leadership team

Ken, Landon and Nicole, with spouses.

The heart of CALO.

I can't get enough!

the life of a 32 year old

I've only lived the life for 4 days now. But. It rocks!!

I started out my first day of 32 coming home from a night shift to my adorable family screaming HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM as I opened the door at 8:00 am. I played with my stinkin cute kids and then took an afternoon nap. Then I shopped the afternoon away. Got lunch at Chili's. Went on a date with my HOT tamale husband and saw the movie "Unstoppable."

Loved it. And then went to a MOPS Christmas dinner party:

It was an awesome BIRTHDAY!!

Full of friends, family and ffffffffun.

Sunday was quiet, relaxing and peaceful. Friends gave birthday wishes at Church and the afternoon was perfect with my family.

Then Monday was a slice of paradise.

I got up early and headed off to Spa Shiki. The steam was rising off the water and the crisp air was freezing...but I immediately warmed up as I entered the spa and sweat in the sauna, the steam room and hot tub.

Oh, and I also got a one hour full body massage. A hair cut and style. And a pedicure. YEP!

My husband is a rock star.

EVERY MOM DESERVES A SPA DAY!

Then we met up at an awesome restaurant beach front on the lake with a breathtaking view. We had yummy lunch that I think later diseased me because I was sick in bed the next 24 hours.

I wouldn't change a thing.

I love my family. I love celebrating my birthday. Who doesn't love feeling LOVED!

I got these beautiful flowers delivered from friends...cards sent in the mail...packages from all my sisters...gifts from loved ones everywhere!! It was so dang fun and a birthday weekend I'll never forget. Not just cuz I turned a year older, but because of all the wonderful reasons I had to celebrate another year I'm so thankful to be alive.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

It's CHRISTMAS!!

Well at least you would have thought

that when you heard

Tanner's shrills and excitement for

our first snow fall of the season!!!

(Sunday)

He was soooooooooooo excited.

It was as good as Christmas morning!

And this little ragamuffin

thought it was pretty cool too.

my little angels

seriously... can't get any cuter! sooooo in love ♥

Olive Garden traditions

After we were married, our wedding luncheon was at Olive Garden.

After Tanner's temple sealing to our family,

we celebrated at Olive Garden.

So...we celebrated tradition style

after Kambrie's adoption finalization at

Olive Garden... (Thursday, Dec 9th, 2010) and might just do so again after her upcoming temple sealing as well!!

After Kam had a refreshing nap, everyone was excited as we journeyed on the 2.5 hr ride to the courthouse in St Louis!!

Smiles were abound on everyone's faces!

This finalization was supposed to happen 8 months ago. I don't want to bash the judicial system...but...they suck. No good reason they made us wait. Just because, they had the power to do so.

But we know the waiting game when it comes to having a family... so we waited. And we knew it'd be worth it. ☺

So bring on OLIVE GARDEN. Our symbol of FAMILY!! lol.

And we threw in some "Planet Fun" time. A beautiful day to remember forever!!

We LOVE you Kambrie. We're so glad you'll always be ours!!!!!