McAlister Matters

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family! This year we are staying in Bountiful Utah. All the kids are excited for Christmas and counting the days. We're expecting some snow! This was a great year for our family. We've been able to spend a lot of time together and have enjoyed some vacations in Moab and Disneyland. A new baby girl will join our family in April 2020! This year Kahlan stepped up to the 1st grade. She's an excellent student and loves her teacher. Her class put on an excellent Christmas program and Kahlan memorized several songs in other languages. She continues to practice the piano and is making great progress. Kahlan loves organizing activities and art projects. She's also an excellent reader, singer and big sister.  Juniper is now 3 and a half! She's really enjoyed attending a neighborhood pre-school 2 days a week. Juni takes care of her little brother Paul and a dozen or so baby dolls. She loves games and can kick anyone's trash

We made our annual holiday visit to California for Thanksgiving this year. We flew with the 3 1/2 kids! It was an adventure but we survived the airports. 🙀 Our first trip was to McAlister Fest on Saturday at Tahiea's in Fresno. It was fun to see everyone and all the kids. We had a huge Thanksgiving feast with ham and smoked turkey! Our next trip was to a big cabin in Twain Heart. This was where we got to play games and hang out a little bit with everyone. The cabin was very comfortable and the drive there was gorgeous. The next trip was to Calaveras Big Trees state park. It turned out to be a freezing and windy day but we braved the trail with all the kids. The tree giants were not impressed by us. Our next trip was to Columbia, the old gold mining town near Twain Heart. It was another cold day but we had fun going into a few shops and got our picture taken old west style. After these adventures we were all sick with colds and had to take it easy for a few days i