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Thanksgiving weekend 2011

A few days before Thanksgiving Jack’ee came over and helped me de-nastify the kitchen cupboards. She’s awesome like that.

ewwww…….

Found some new shelf paper that I love at the Dollar Tree (LOVE that place). It’s a fun splash of color in an expected place.

Papa and Yaiyai drove down for the weekend and Regan claimed Papa’s hat as soon as he arrived. It was nice having them here for our first AZ holiday.

Jon and I took advantage of my parents being here for some babysitting so we could hit up Ikea. (First time for both of us.) I can’t wait to go back. I loved it. Jon found a perfect Kaylee desk. She was SO excited when she saw it.

Thanksgiving day we headed to Jack’ee and Jason’s house to eat. They made an AMAZING meal.
Regan received his b-day gift. Jack’ee asked me what to get him. So I requested she get him his first train set (Ika) and he has played with it every day since.

Jack’ee got him extra cars to go with the starter set, and we are going to buy him more tracks as he gets older. Or you know the next time we got to Ikea.

They boys had fun playing trains after dinner.

The day after is our usual tree trimming day. I didn’t get around to it until after my parents left a few day later. Kaylee helped as per usual. She decided that the flowers looked better in my hair.

After we finished the tree we made our first AZ fort. (Rug from Ikea.) It was a lovely first holiday in our new home.

Moving day and a Kayleeism

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So this is moving day. I woke up early to get last minute stuff done and make sure we got to the airport in time.

We were pretty lucky that Dwayne was able to fly us. I’m not gonna lie pulling up to the gate, walking to the plane and taking off is the ONLY way to fly. It was SO easy and SO much nicer than driving 7 hours with the children behind the moving van/Jon. (Actually because of weather it took him 11 hours.)

We were late. Give you one guess why….

“Mom Regan James Heaton opened your rojo lipstick. It’s o.k. I took it away from him and put it away. I the best helper huh Mama?!”

So that happened. Awesome huh? (It’s not easy to scrub red lip gloss off skin with baby wipes. Really needed a thick face towel with lots of soap which was all packed….)

The children were thrilled to see Jon. Here is where we (Dwayne) punched in the code to get to the plane.

There was a blizzard blowing in. Sooooo windy. Jon was trying to make a wind break for Regan

Getting into the plane.

She was so excited that she buckled herself in.

My boys. This was taken right before Jon left. And right before Regan realized that his daddy was not coming with him. He was not pleased. Not at all.

She quickly got over that fact that she needed to be in her car seat.

So we could hear/talk to Dwayne. Doesn’t she look cute in her headset?

Regan passed out about 10-15 minutes into the 2 hour flight. He would wake up and give me crusties whenever we hit turbulence. Lots at first due to the storm that was blowing in. He woke up as we were descending to land. He did great. SO awesome for his first flight.

Had to get a picture of our pilot/bro-in-law/Dwayne doing his thing.

All the turbulence was upsetting Kaylee’s (recently recovered from the stomach ick) tummy. She requested (but never actually used) a puke bag.

Dwayne came prepared with grocery bags for the kids. He said that the regular puke bags just wouldn’t work. The bag gave Kaylee much comfort.

She was pretty miserable for a while before she passed out.

But she too slept for most of the flight.

My view out the window was pretty amazing. We also flew OVER another small plane which was just neat.

Kids loaded into the truck ready to make the 5-10 minute drive to the Day house. Kaylee said flying was “AWESOME!” And that she was ready to do it again. Regan seemed indifferent when asked about it.