A Family Affair

It was quite the family affair when old and new relatives traveled in from all over the week before Thanksgiving.

Two new little baby girls joined the Kane family this year; Chloe you know and now meet Monroe, Simon and mine's niece!  The beautiful rough-and-tumble 10 month old daughter of Simon's brother, Tommy and my best friend, Misty.

From Wisconsin, Misty brought Monroe, her other daughter Nevaeh (5), and her parents Christine and Dan.  From England came Tommy and Jeff, Simon's dad.  Sue, Simon's mom, also made a trip over from SD.  It was parties galore this week, and we even hosted an impromptu early Thanksgiving.  It was a beautiful and perfect meeting for everyone included.

CHLOE MEETING UNCLE TOMMY

MONROE MEETING DAD AND NANA SUE

THE BROTHERS SPENDING THE DAY TOGETHER WITH THE GIRLS

CHLOE WITH NANA SUE

CHLOE WITH AUNTIE MISTY AND UNCLE DJ

PLAYTIME WITH MONROE

AN EARLY THANKSGIVING

 

 

EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FROM THE KANES IN ENGLAND

And the end of the story is just the beginning for these two little cousins.  Plans are being made for a hopeful permanent reunion.  Amazing how God always has a sneaky little plan up his sleeve.

A Trip to the Zoo

As an early Christmas gift, we got a membership to the Phoenix Zoo. We live just 10 minutes door to gate so this definitely will get a lot of use over the next year. 

We saw the rhino, baboons, tiger, lions (sleeping), giraffes, and elephants (eating).  We also saw a cheeky monkey (or two).

Last stop at the Carousel ride. Chloe loved that shiny gold pole!

Halloween

For Halloween, Chloe got to celebrate in two costumes.  On the eve of Halloween, it was our regular day for Inn Mommies and all the babies showed up dressed up.  Chloe's costume was a clever one: Ceiling Fan.

On Halloween night, we hit the street with the other Avalon babies we know and went trick-or-treating. The neighbors loved getting to see them in costume and we all enjoyed our first time taking our kids out.  For this round, I dressed her up as the Princess she is.  She was really good all evening but once we got home, she was only interested in going to sleep!