Saturday, January 9, 2010

Farwell 2009 and Mahalo!!!

 
 The day after Christmas, we loaded our car and headed to Utah to visit families and friends. It was a long 10 hours drive especially with kids asking every 5 minutes "how many more minutes until Utah?"and car sickness from Mya.. but we survived! We stayed for a week and celebrated New Year Eve with our extended family.

The kids especially enjoyed reconnecting with their cousins.
 
Nate, Ike and Tayton had a blast playing "Sardines and finger skateboarding"

Kiarah and Mya had a Ball playing dolls and hanging with each other.
 
Over all everyone had fun being with each others.
 
 Uncle Brad with sweet Ethan. I had so much fun playing with this kiddo even though he wasn't feeling well.
 
 Funny Eli showing off his new toys that his grandpa gave him....COOL!

Auntie Clay with Aidan and Isaac, enjoying quite time. 

 Cousins playing in Nana and Papa's playroom.
 

Hanging out with the in-laws.
 

Enjoying family time.
 

Mya loving the nightgown that her Nana made for her for Christmas.

One the best part of visiting with families was seeing the new babies born in 2009
 
 Zoe Elizabeth born August 31, 2009
 
Annalicya Larissa born on October 18, 2009
 
Carly born November 30, 2009
 
 Luke Steve born December 21, 2009 
Aren't they all Precious!!!!


The another fun part of our trip is going out with family and friends for dinner.

It was Girl's Night out with my sisters and mom...we had a good time even thought the service was too long!


My beautiful mom!
 
It truly a blessing to have good friends.

New Year Eve went out with a BAM...playing Rock Band with my kids, hubby, sisters, cousins and mom. We ROCKED the Night away! It was a great way to say "Farewell to 2009 and Mahalo for a good year"!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Christmas Fun

We had a great Christmas Eve and Christmas with making gingerbread houses(made with graham crackers), great dinner, opening the presents, having a great breakfast and playing games with friends. We didn't have snow and maybe the kids were bummed but I was okay with it...last year we had so much snow, that I wasn't missing it.

We were so late this year in making our gingerbread/graham crackers houses but the kids had a blast.
 
Decided this year to mix up the menu for Christmas Eve and have some Puerto Rican meat with garlic mashed potatoes and articoke salad....yummy!

Restarted our Christmas Eve tradition, kids got to open a present which had their new pjs.
 
Look the house is finally quite and Santa Came!!!

Christmas morning...the boys were up at 5am but weren't allowed out until 7:30am!
 
The kids enjoying their gifts...the boys especially loved the Afros wigs I got them!
 

  
  
 The kids with their loot.
 

  
  
 
Now to pack for our trip to Utah the next day...going to see families and friends...YIPEE!!!!

Friday, December 18, 2009

Santa Baby.... We Been Awful Good Girls!



 
 
At one of my hula performances, they were taking photos with Santa and of course some of us had to pose with the big guy!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Family Photos

My good  talented friend Ashlee took these amazing photos of our family for our Christmas Card and I had a hard time choosing our favorite but it's the photo on headline of our blog but we get to enjoy these  other masterpieces on my Christmas Present (a digital frame, which I won't get until Christmas day!)...Thank you Ashlee for sharing your talent with us and we miss you tons!!!!