Please Pray for my friend, Giulietta

Dear Friends and Family,

A friend of mine in my moms group needs your prayers. She has something called Guillain Barre Syndrome... it is a problem that begins in the spine and causes the outer sheath of the nerves to become inflamed. Her name is Giullieta and her 16 month old daughter is Chloe, her husband is Jim. If you can spread the word at your church/temple or among your friends, I would be very grateful.

Giulietta is back in CCU at Hoag Hospital for the third time this week. She has had countless blood tests and finally got a spinal tap to discover what was wrong. They are pumping her full of globulins for a week. If this fails they will have to then extract and clean her blood. The paralysis travels up and down her body over the course of hours, she loses speech and sight capacities daily. She hasn't been able to hold her daughter for almost a week and now being in the hospital she hasn't seen her for days.

Hopefully her treatments will take affect and then things will settle out in about two or three weeks and become more manageable. Then our moms group and other friends will help with chores and food etc. Right now we need prayers and good vibes- lots of them!!!

A Paypal account has been set up to recieve donations for Giulietta and her family to help cover medical costs and care for Chloe etc. If you would like to donate, please click here:

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best Halloween Ever!

I have never really been that into Halloween. I think it is one of those holiday's that some people just love, and look forward to and plan for, for weeks ahead of time. I have never been one of those people. I was a black cat for like, 4 years in a row because the people I was hanging out with said I had to be something. But like so many other things, Halloween was so much more fun to celebrate with Kalani! I got excited about his costume, and planned it out weeks ahead of time, and I anxiously awaited Halloween night so I could take him trick-or-treating. He was the CUTEST "worker guy" you have ever seen!

first house, and loving it already!

that bag is fillin' up fast...

Kalani's first EVER candy treat...

mmmmmmmmm

Off to a few more houses....





After trick-or-treating we went home to have some delicious homemade chili. I have this thing about chili and Halloween; I think I made it up, but to me it is the meal to have on Halloween! I realize that chili does not look that great, or appetizing, in a photo, but it was gooood :-)

cool pumpkin cup from Gramma Ilo


Kalani LOVED the chili

Back out to go see our neighbor friends and get a couple more pieces of candy, before calling it a night!



Like I said, cutest construction worker you've ever seen!!

Pumpkin Pickin'

We took a trip to our favorite farm in orange county this morning, to check out the pumpkin patch. Granny Sue and Nana came along too! It is a cool, cloudy, and almost misty day here, which is rare, but actually quite nice. It did warm up by noon to about 70 degrees, but it was still very overcast and moist, so it felt like a very appropriate day to do something so "fall-ish". Tanaka Farms is orange county's only 100% working farm, and it is 100% organic too! It is a (dirt-loving, active, energetic) kid's paradise! They have wagon rides that take you around the farm, the engine is actually a tractor, but that work's in our favor because Kalani is pretty into tractors these days :) And during the pumpkin season, they also have a corn maze and a petting zoo. I noticed today, that Kalani is becoming quite used to the petting zoo's, we go to them on a fairly regular basis these days. He went from one goat or sheep to the next (usually the only animals at these petting zoo's, this one also had a couple little pigs running around), making sure to give each and everyone one a little pat on the head or back, like it was his task to complete. It was quite funny!


Kalani really liked this one...


and this one really liked Nana


on the "wagon"


in the 'maize' maze




Kalani thought this one was "biiiig!"



anybody want to get me photoshop for Christmas ;).....
(so I could take my foot out of this shot)


we went home with 4 beautiful pumpkins, and 1 tired boy!

Disneyland!

I feel like I am really a southern California mom now, because I LOVE going to Disneyland! I not only did not expect, but I did not even think about certain things when I decided to move down here. I never really thought about Disneyland for the first, oh, 9 months I was here. And now I have an annual pass!
Some special people get a 'shout out' on this post ~ Pertz and Sar, WHAT, WHAT!!