Talking to Care Bears and other Christmas activities.

To hear the audio scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the pause button for the music. Maylani was excited to see all her presents.If you look closely at Jenna's pictures you'll see rock tumbler in one and a necklace kit in the other. Which translates into a seven weeks of hearing rocks tumble and 10,000 beads all over the house. Isn't that awesome?! Also we decided to take the new car off-roading, that is the only thing we haven't tested yet. In one of the pictures the back-left tire is completely off of the ground. before we came to a full stop we were teetering there, bouncing between the front right tire and the back left all the while Missy is yelling at me so I had to get out and take a picture.

Winter Pics

So I notice on a couple of my friends and families blogs that they had post pictures of fall. I got a little envious and wanted to show some pictures of winter in Hawaii. (HEY TYRA: do those mittens...I mean "hand warmers" look familiar?) Well this picture could actually be true if we had shipped our car to the big island. But it was actually taken 3 years ago 10 minutes away from Saguaro lake, no I did not do a typo...there was some crazy snow storm and snow on the ground not too far from Saguaro Lake on the beeline. Here is an actual picture of winter here. The only difference is that it rains a little bit more in the winter and North Shore gets about 60 foot waves. Other than that, it is paradise all year round. Well, I did find another picture of what winter looks like here. When we get a good heavy rain, water will run off the top of the Ko'olau mountains down the crevices creating a ton of waterfalls. It is absolutely breathtaking.

Out with the Old and in with the New

The other day we decided to take a drive and show Jenna the Pali lookout. We missed the turnoff for it and ended up heading to town to go test drive the newest KIA that was just put a couple of months ago. Kip and I already have a KIA Sorento and absolutly love it, have had it for almost 4 years without a single problem. Plus it comes with an awesome warranty and good gas mileage along with a 5 star crash rating. So needless to say, we traded in our Nissan Titan...I know...Kip has been wanting one for sometime and finally got one. But with the gas prices so crazy, we lost value in our truck faster than the norm and hardly drove it in the two years we had it. I assure that it was Kip's decision to trade it the Titan since it was his truck. Out with the Titan and hello Borrego. We are now proud owners of two KIAs. Our new one seats 7 and has almost the same amount of horse power in it's V-6 engine as the Titan did in it's V-8. Come to find out, we are the only ones so far to own a Borrego on the island. I was pretty excited about that! Of course, when the other two sell, that won't be the case anymore.

Busy Weekend

We had a pretty busy last week and weekend. First we went to Jenna's Christmas party at school that I helped plan for her kindergarten class. The kids sung carols and Santa Claus showed up just for her class and passed out presents for all the children at the party. This is most of Jenna's classmates and teacher, not all were able to make it to the pary. We had an elf decorating contest at the and Jenna had to be dressed up as a "girlie" elf. Saturday I am offically no longer in my 20's by turning the big 30! Kip and I went out to lunch with the girls at an Italian restraunt called Zia's. A couple of my friends brought me over some flowers. And then later that night we attended our ward Christmas party.

My two princesses!

Five years ago my little baby received her first two teeth on the bottom row. A couple of weeks ago they fell out. My big princess was so excited to find out that the tooth fairy will be coming out to visit. Of course I shared this already in a previous post. But now that is it has been a million years after the fact and her adult teeth are popping up, I decided to post a picture about it. Hope you all enjoy. And of course I just had to post a picture of my little princess because she is just so dang cute, we can't get enough of her and we wanted to show everyone what you're missing out on. So sad, guess you will have to come fly out to see them.

Christmas time.

Every year we let Jenna help decorate the tree. As she gets older she gets better at it. Of course in the past years she liked to undecorate the tree and throw the ordaments across the room. We have learned and since then we buy shatter proof bulbs. Back to the decorating, I think she did a pretty good job considering she is only 5.

Suprise

Last week we went out shopping as a family and as we were heading home I reached into my purse to get the keys and instead I found a jewerly box. Kip surprised me with an early birthday present. I absolutly love it, almost as much as my wedding and engagment set. The stone is trillion cut and is an auqa marine. It's more beautiful in person, the picture doesn't do it justice.