Cooper's Birthday Interview #11

1. Who is your favorite person in the whole world? Camden
2. What is your favorite color? green
3. What is your favorite tv show? Kickin' It
4. What is your favorite outfit? my new Volcom pocket shirt and Jordan shorts
5. What sport do you like best? soccer and football
6. What song do you love? "Payphone"
7. What is your favorite cereal? Fruity Pebbles
8. Who is your best friend? Jake
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? work at OS Tailors
10. What is your favorite book? Anything by Rick Riordan
11. What are you really good at doing? being a boss
12. Where do you wish you could go on vacation? Costa Rica
13. What is your best memory? space camp
14. What would you buy if you had $1000? a dune buggy
15. What is your least favorite vegetable? asparagus
16. If you had one wish, what would it be? Ironman's suit
17. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? cookies and cream
18. Who is your biggest hero? mom and dad
19. What do you like to do with your friends? anything
20. What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday? go to Costa Rica

Camden's Birthday Interview #11

1. Who is your favorite person in the whole world? Can it be two people? Mom and Dad.
2. What is your favorite color? blue
3. What is your favorite tv show? Pair of Kings (Disney)
4. What is your favorite outfit? my new Volcom pocket shirt and Jordan shorts
5. What sport do you like best? soccer
6. What song do you love? "Loud" by R5
7. What is your favorite cereal? Life
8. Who is your best friend? Jake
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? either a dentist or a I'll work for my dad
10. What is your favorite book? The Lost Hero
11. What are you really good at doing? backflips
12. Where do you wish you could go on vacation? Australia
13. What is your best memory? the day we were surprised with the trampoline
14. What would you buy if you had $1000? an XBox
15. What is your least favorite vegetable? all of them (but he still eats the ones I feed him)
16. If you had one wish, what would it be? to fly
17. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? cookies and cream
18. Who is your biggest hero? Ironman
19. What do you like to do with your friends? jump on the trampoline
20. What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday? go to space camp again

Lucy's Birthday Interview #7

1. Who is your favorite person in the whole world? Can we do more than one? My family.
2. What is your favorite color? blue
3. What is your favorite tv show? Jessie (on the Disney Channel)
4. What is your favorite outfit? my pajamas
5. What sport do you like best? soccer
6. What song do you love? the song at the end of "Wreck It Ralph"--"When Can I See You Again"
7. What is your favorite cereal? Honeycomb
8. Who is your best friend? Shea
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? a mom
10. What is your favorite book? If You Give a Moose a Muffin
11. What are you really good at doing? handwriting
12. Where do you wish you could go on vacation? Disneyland or Hawaii
13. What is your best memory? having peace and quiet and watching a movie
14. What would you buy if you had $1000? the world
15. What is your least favorite vegetable? tomatoes
16. If you had one wish, what would it be? to be able to fly
17. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? chocolate vanilla twist
18. Who is your biggest hero? my dad!
19. What do you like to do with your friends? jump on the trampoline
20. What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday? go to Hawaii

33

I would hate to not document what my awesome friends did to celebrate my 33rd birthday.  I am so lucky to have this amazing, supportive, attractive, creative, and a little crazy group of friends.  We have writers, actors, chefs, bakers, artists, models, athletes, marathoners, councilwomen, nurturers, perfect examples, and me in our little circle.  We are there for each other...and apparently we will be there for each other for a long time to come.

 It was hard to load my aged body in the Charleston van.

 We don't let our assets slow us down!

 We fit in with the stereotypes...

 if you don't look too closely.

 Oh man.  This one gets me every time.  We WILL have our granny panties on outside our polyester leisure suits because they will be signed by our favorite celebrities.  In this case, Justin Timberlake and Will (Mr. Parachute Man.)

 It scares me how accurately some of us portrayed our future selves.

 (except the bust here will never be accurate.  But I love you, Jerianne!)

 I hope our husbands stick around to see how hot and sultry we still will be.

 But if they're not, we will share our affections with each other.

 I can't wait to enjoy our Riesens, black licorice, butterscotch discs, gummy candies (with really good denture paste), buttercream mint pillows, and chocolate.  I also hope my liking for any of those things comes with age.

 I love these ladies.  How could we not have fun together?

 I'll keep practicing my personal quirks BINGO game.

 Oh, it's going to be fun to get old with my friends!  Luckily, some of them are older than I, so they will lovingly show me how it's done. ;)

Oahu 2012

The gift I was most excited to give to our kids was a trip for our whole family to our timeshare on Oahu.  In their stockings were the letters H A W A I I, and it didn't take long for them to unscramble them and figure it out.
We left on Friday, January 13 and came home on the red-eye flight the following Friday night.  It was the perfect week of swimming, playing at the beach, feeding the birds, eating, sleeping and just being together. It definitely didn't hurt that our surroundings were so beautiful.
We mostly spent time at our hotel, but Sunday found us at church and then taking a drive and a picnic to the other side of the island to see the temple and visitors' center.  Another morning we took advantage of staying right next to the Disney Aulani and enjoyed a character breakfast with Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy.  It rained on Tuesday, so after swimming in the morning we drove to Haleiwa and had lunch and Matsumoto's shave ice.  Every other day after lunch we had shave ice from the hotel.