Puerto Vallarta Babymoon

I had been excited about using our business points to go on a vacation this year, especially when we found out last fall that we were going to have another baby. We wanted to go to Mexico since we had both never been there before and we wanted to stay on the Pacific side since it would mean less travel time. After some research, we figured Puerto Vallarta was a great place to go.

Our flight was uneventful (just the way we like it). We were a little overwhelmed by all the timeshare sales guys in the airport that make you think you have to book a taxi through them to get to your hotel. I was almost swayed by one deal, but in the end we made our way passed them and into a taxi and on our way to the hotel.

After we dropped our bags off in our room, we got a recommendation from the hotel on a place to eat that we could walk to and headed that way. What is a trip to Mexico without a margarita? (Virgin, that is)

We were serenaded at the Happy Lobster by these guys and a harpist. They were VERY talented.

This was the view the first night we got to our hotel. We arrived close to sunset. It was breathtaking.

View from our room of one of our pools. On the second night, they even let off fireworks from our beach. Watching them from our room was amazing.

View from our room looking towards the "Malecon".

These are the tiki huts in front of our hotel.

We were not very impressed by the food we ate, but that guacamole was delicious!

Matt bought a few masks for his "kids".

The sunsets were breathtaking every night. I felt so spoiled to see so many in one week over the ocean.

John HAD to try some corn. The vendors looked annoyed when he and Matt made Nacho Libre comments.

One of the days was dedicated to the Marietta Islands. This was taken just as we were about to leave the harbor at 8am.

Sarah and I sailing (on the way back) to the harbor.

My favorite activity was Sailing. We went on a all day excursion with Pegaso Tour company. We sailed out on the Isis sailing boat and was served a light breakfast of drinks and pastries. Then we toured the bay and watched the mama and baby humpback whales, was served a yummy lunch and all the virgin Pina Coladas we could drink.

John is excited to try surfing in CA next time we make it out (but he will have to rent a wet suit, I'm sure).

John LOVED his day surfing. It was the most fun of the activities we were able to do. He got up on his second try. The beach was made for beginners. It had perfect 4 foot swells that were pretty constant.

This is a picture of part of the beach at Sayulita. It was a very cool, laid back beach town. It had a great beach. Sarah and I relaxed in the shade while the boys surfed. We took a local bus to get there, which took a little over an hour. It was hot, humid, smelly and uncomfortable, but it was CHEAP. :)

We spent a day at Playa de los Muertos. It was a nice beach, but really busy. We just relaxed on the beach most of the day. Sarah found a baby sea turtle that seemed to be on his last leg.

Our last night, we went for dessert at Bubba Gump shrimp...we were tired of the local food to be honest. There was an awesome clown there that did balloon tricks for the customers. He made Sarah and I cute rings, Matt got a crazy hat that said 99.9% Sexy and John's said 99.9% Virgin. He was very talented.

We had a great time, and had great company. Sarah is 3 months pregnant, so it was nice to have a fellow prego around.

First trip to the Dentist

Kelsi finally made it to the dentist. We have a good friend who is a Pediatric Dentist. Kelsi has been to the office many times, but never as a patient. She was a rock star. I am so proud of her. She came right in and laid down on the table.

Joana is great and cleaned Kelsi's teeth while Kelsi watched The Princess and the Frog on the TV screen on the ceiling (the shades are because it was a little bright in the room).

Here she is content, watching her movie and waiting for her turn to get some xrays.

She showed me how to properly brush an alligators/Dinosaurs (whatever that thing is) teeth. (As you can see, she made a friend while waiting)

She got xrays taken and thought it was really cool. Then her Dentist examined her and she is cavity free!

She is excited to go back to "Jane's Office" again soon. (Jane is her best friend and daughter of the dentist pictured above).

January was a bit of a blur for me, because we didn't take any pictures!! For New Years, we drove down to Clarkston for the long weekend and spent the time with our friends the Evans, Brumes, Ports & Folsoms. We love that we still feel at home whenever we go down to visit.

I also had a birthday in January! It wasn't very memorable except for the fact that I was REALLY sick. It started out with a bad cold and then got worse. After a night of not being able to catch my breath after walking up the stairs, we knew it was time to seek medical care. Luckily, it was only the early stages of pneumonia and they ruled it a bad case of bronchitis. Thankfully, after a large dose of antibiotics - I was able to kick it out of my system.

One thing that I have neglected to mention is that I am pregnant!! I'm just over 22 weeks along now and I get bigger every day. We are due June 23rd and we are having another girl and are very excited that Kelsi is going to have a sister. I love my sisters SO much. I don't know how my life would be if I didn't have them to depend on, so I hope that Kelsi and her little sister will be close as well. This pregnancy started out the same as the first one. Sick, sick, sick. Luckily, my body responds well to Zofran and I had the doctor give it to me right away. I looked back at my entries when I was pregnant with Kelsi and I am exactly the same as I was with her. Carrying the same, gained the same amount of weight at this time. HOPEFULLY, I won't have sciatic problems this time around.

I had to post this cute pic of these two buddies. My friend Kim took care of Kelsi one day when I was sick last month and she recorded them singing and dancing to a song...in their swimsuits...on top of chairs. I can't get it to upload, so you can just enjoy the picture. Trust me...it is adorable.

Christmas 2012

Better late than never. We have not been very good at picture taking lately. Christmas was very nice this year. Christmas Eve we had John's parents over for a nice ham dinner. It was so delicious!! Sunday (Christmas) morning, we woke up to see we had a visit from Santa.

Kelsi received some fun toys and she was SO excited about EVERYTHING.

See??She is hugging a present!

We had John's parents over for Christmas brunch and enjoyed each other's company. Later that night, John, Kelsi and I headed over to our friends the Pond's home for their traditional Crab Leg Fest. There were SOOO may people there and we had a great time.

We love the Christmas season where we can truly reflect on the Savior and our family.

New do

Kelsi got about 6 inches chopped off her hair today. It was such a better experience than her last trip to the hair zoo.

There is a cute kids salon in Post Falls that I take Kelsi to get her haircut. As you can see, they get to sit on cute animals while they get their hair cut and watch a movie of their choosing. Kelsi didn't resist, whine or cry the whole time. She was very excited and she looks so cute with her sassy short hair.

I'm 4!

Kelsi turned 4 earlier this month and we couldn't love her more.

She asked me a couple months prior if she could have a bunny cake when it was her birthday. VERY last minute (as in frosting and decorating RIGHT before we blew out the candles) I got it done for her and she was very happy.

Very elementary, but all that matters is that Kelsi was thrilled.

We open presents first thing in the morning. When I woke up, Kelsi was sitting amongst all her gifts and asked, "Mommy, whose presents are these?" When I told her that they were hers of course, she jumped up and yelled "OH THANK YOU MOMMY!!".

My creative girl got tons and tons of beads. She has been making necklaces, rings and bracelets ever since.

She also loves her puzzles!

At Kelsi's 4 year old check up, she got all her immunizations, so she is good until she is 11 yrs old! YAY! She is 43 3/4 in. tall (97th percentile) and 43 lbs 2oz. (92%). We love our big girl! She is very excited to be a big sister.

I'll take some fruit, hold the peanut butter

John and I are expecting a new bundle of joy this June! We are very excited. We found out in October and it is STILL sinking in. I have been really nauseous but haven't thrown up too many times compared to how I was with Kelsi. I am not sure if I should attribute that to this baby possibly being a boy, or the fact that I started downing the Zofran at 7 weeks this time instead of 17 wks with Kelsi. I wasn't going to take any chances.

We surprised my parents with the news when we went down to CA in November. Kelsi was sporting her "Big Sister" pajamas. Needless to say, we STILL had to point out her PJs. We surprised Johns family at Thanksgiving dinner. The Calderwood tradition before dinner is to go around the table and say what we are thankful for. When it was my turn, I mentioned a few things I was thankful for including my pregnancy.

I don't think I will be posting monthly pic updates like I did last time around...it got pretty scary those last couple of months. However, we had our ultrasound at what we THOUGHT was 9.5 wks only to be told that our lil baby was about 2 weeks behind. So, it feels like I have been pregnant forever. I am just about 14 weeks. Baby's heart rates was 160 and then 172 at the last two appts. We are VERY happy.

As for the picture above, all I want to eat is fruit. However, it is NOT good to crave fruit in the winter...in Idaho of all places. Nothing is satisfying me. Sadly, I have an aversion to Peanut Butter, which is usually my favorite food.

I am so excited for these next 6 months to fly by so that I can: brush my teeth without gagging, eat my daily dose of peanut butter, get back into my REGULAR exercise routine, not feel like I am going to vomit at any second, stay up past 9pm (and that is PUSHING it), sleep through the night without having to pee 2-3 times (hoping after a couple months that this baby will be just like Kelsi and sleep sleep sleep), be a happier wife and mommy, stop taking these dumb prenatal vitamins and most of all so that I can cuddle with my brand new bundle of love.

Trip to CA Nov- 2011

First thing about our trip to CA, was that Kelsi overcame her fear of airplanes. HOORAY! She was great on both legs of our trip. No screaming, no crying and NO throwing up all over Mommy. It was heaven. We arrived on Thursday night and Friday morning we headed to Knotts Berry Farm with the cousins, Aunt Mar & Shays and Grandma and Grandpa Manderino.

Kelsi did pretty good in Camp snoopy. She didn't want to ride the kid roller coasters, but she had fun on the other rides. I WONT mention how long it took me to figure out how to get the kids out of the truck.
Kelsi loved the Mexican Hat Dance. She laughed and laughed the whole time.

Kelsi especially had fun joking around with her cousin Kyle.

Merry-go-round

Emma is quite the daredevil and John was nice enough to go on most of the rides with her. This one, pictured below, I would never go on. It tips you straight up and then fall face forward and then around and around...I got dizzy just watching them.

See! Totally conquered her fear of flying! She's the pilot!

The next day was John's birthday (you can read about that in the previous post). Sunday we went to church and drove out to Tamar's house for dinner. (Thanks Tamar!)

On Monday, we took Kelsi to Irvine Regional Park and visited the zoo. She brushed a bunch of goats, saw bears, mountain lions, coyotes, lots of snakes and birds.

Then we let her play on one of the playgrounds while John and I enjoyed the 75 degree weather before we had to head to the airport.

Did I mention that we went to In-n-out TWICE while we were there? Yum. AND, I finally converted John. I knew his taste buds would wake up.

Happy Birthday John

John turned the big 37 earlier this month. He celebrated it by continuing "No Shave November". Thankfully, he got lonely enough and it didn't make it the entire month. We spent John's birthday in California visiting my family. The day was spent shopping and eating and exploring his new iphone.

John wanted the below banana split cream pie. Thanks Mom and Shayla for the team effort!

We sure love our John! He is so funny, smart, handsome, he loves to play games with Kelsi when he gets home from work and he works SO hard for us. Love you!

Remainder of October

Kelsi and I took our 3rd annual trip to the farm down the street to feed the animals and pick a pumpkin. We couldn't miss our annual "Sit on a pumpkin" picture.

She loved feeding the chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits, goats, sheep, pigs, dogs, cats and horses.





We let Kelsi decide how to carve our pumpkin this year. She chose the traditional route.

Kelsi dressed up as a bumblebee this year. John and I threw together (literally) a last minute bee keeper costume for our church party.

Here is Kelsi with her best gal pal Jane. They partied hard at their Halloween Preschool Party complete with crafts, games and a yummy lunch.