Kaizen Klan

Around the house

Well I officially have a 3 year old and a 6 month old. It really is crazy how fast the days go by when you have kids. They are growing so fast each day I'm amazed that I am a mommy to 2 beautiful children. Here's a mix of pictures taken around the house. The kids are constantly doing silly, crazy, and cute things and I'm always struggling to catch them in the moment. Luckily I'm slightly obsessed with pictures (as if you haven't noticed) and I manage to get most of them. This is just a small window into our Crazy Kaizen Home. I swear I need to put a sign outside our front door that says "Welcome to our zoo".

Caden, Téa and Caleb enjoying dinner (Téa not being so lady like)

Leila and Mandy sleeping together

Téa keeping an eye on Daddy doing homework

Caden and Leila, an inseparable pair

Caden lining up his letters

Our not so bright family member

Our wild walker

Puppy dog kisses

I only have eyes for you

Daddy and his princess

Daddy, you crazy

My little girl and I, what a pouty little face

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Future Plumber? What do you think?

visit back home

The kids and I went back home for the weekend of October 25th for Bodie's 2nd birthday party. Daddy had to stay behind for school but we managed to survive without him. The kids had a lot of fun seeing everyone. I can't wait until we move back someday. Caden and Bodie are great buddies and I think we might have met my future son in law. Bodie was slightly obsessed with Téa and she just ate up the attention. The kids also got spoiled by Mamma and Papa for 4 days. Caden and Téa both took a liking to the piano. Mamma and Papa got a beautiful loud ceremony every night. We were sad to go but I'm sure the grandparents were happy to have their quiet home back.

13 more years to adjust to seeing this image

Caden on the go

Caden and his buddy Bodie

The boys enjoying some Popsicles

Téa and her first boyfriend Bodie

What a cute couple

Sorry boys she's taken

Pumpkin Carving

Here are the results of our pumpkin adventure. Mommy carved 5 of the 6 pumpkins. There was a kitty pumpkin for Mandy Cat, a dog pumpkin for Leila, a spider pumpkin for Téa, a dragon pumpkin for Caden and a stick figure pumpkin for myself. Daddy carved himself a Dracula Pumpkin. Next year I will probably not take on such a task because by the 2nd pumpkin I was pretty much done. They turned out great though and we were very proud of them. For those of you cheaters out there who use patterns (aka Aunt Lindsey) remember these were all drawn by hand without any picture to go by. Lindsey, consider next years pumpkin carving contest on. Don and I have both decided that if our jobs don't work out we just might go into pumpkin carving.

Daddy's Dracula

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Caden's dragon pumpkin

Tea's Spider web pumpkin

Leila's self portrait

Mandy's kitty pumpkin

Pumpkins

On Monday October 27th we took the family to the pumpkin patch. Caden had a blast. First of all it was a big open field and he had free run over the entire place, second he loved the pumpkins. He pointed to every single one and proceeded to tell Don and I that they were orange. He went pumpkin by pumpkin and pointed to it and said orange and then moved onto the next one. I tried to explain to him that they were pumpkins but he didn't seem to care. He was too interested in the color. Téa was just along for the ride. Daddy pushed her around in the wheelbarrow.

Daddy pushing Téa in the wheelbarrow